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Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They choose important quotations from the text and work in groups to formulate "quiz" questions that their peers will answer. - Professional Development | Grades 8 – 12 | Professional Library | Book
Amy Tan in the Classroom: "The art of invisible strength"
Offers high school teachers an activity-based approach to teaching the works of Amy Tan, especially The Joy Luck Club and The Opposite of Fate. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Beyond "What I Did on Vacation": Exploring the Genre of Travel Writing
After reading and analyzing short examples of travel writing and discussing conventions of the genre, students write their own travel articles. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
Bio Cube
Bio Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography. - Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades 3 – 12 | Game & Tool
Bio Cube
The Bio Cube asks children to summarize information about a person for a biography or autobiography. The activity helps them learn how to identify and shorten key ideas. - Classroom Resources | Grades K – 12 | Calendar Activity |  April 4
Celebrate National Library Week!
Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week. - Professional Development | Grades 6 – 12 | Strategy Guide
Developing Evidence-Based Arguments from Texts
This strategy guide clarifies the difference between persuasion and argumentation, stressing the connection between close reading of text to gather evidence and formation of a strong argumentative claim about text. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Exploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue
Students explore the concepts of audience and purpose by focusing on an issue that divided Americans in 1925, the debate of evolution versus creationism raised by the Scopes Monkey Trial. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Exploring Cross-Age Tutoring Activities With Lewis and Clark
Interaction and adventure draws high school and elementary school students together as they analyze stories about the Lewis and Clark expedition. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" and Beyond
Students explore the idea of "different Englishes" by reading Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" and writing literacy narratives about their own use of different language for different audiences and purposes.