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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Alter Egos and More with Avi's "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?"
   After reading Avi's novel "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?", students create an alter ego for themselves and use it to write their own radio show, modeled after the book.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   American Folklore: A Jigsaw Character Study
   Groups of students read and discuss American folklore stories, each group reading a different story. Using a jigsaw strategy, the groups compare character traits and main plot points of the stories. A diverse selection of American folk tales is used for this lesson, which is adaptable to any text set.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Examining Story Elements Using Story Map Comic Strips
   Comic frames are traditionally used to illustrate a story in a short, concise format. In this lesson, students use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they've read. Each panel retells a particular detail or explains a literary element (such as setting or character) from the story.
   
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Captioning the Civil Rights Movement: Reading the Images, Writing the Words
   Teachers guide students to carefully view images from the Civil Rights Movement and write captions that accurately describe the images and/or their probable purposes.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Color My World: Expanding Meaning Potential through Media
   Using different writing/drawing materials (e.g., markers, color pencils, pastels, etc.), students learn how to communicate different moods and/or feelings to support their written ideas and how authors do the same through their work.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Comics in the Classroom as an Introduction to Genre Study
   Multidimensional, challenging, and popular with students, comics provide an excellent way to introduce the concept of genres.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating Family Timelines: Graphing Family Memories and Significant Events
   Students interview family members, and then create graphic family timelines based on important and memorable family events.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Designing Elements of Story in Little Blue and Little Yellow
   In this series of four lessons, students will explore key elements of design in Little Blue and
   Little Yellow to learn about setting, character relationships, and plot.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Engaging Students in a Collaborative Exploration of the Gettysburg Address
   In small groups, students closely examine one sentence from the Gettysburg Address and create a multigenre project communicating what they have discovered about the meaning and significance of the text.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan
    Get the Reel Scoop: Comparing Books to Movies
    Students compare a book to its film adaptation, and then perform readers theater of a scene from the book that they feel was not well represented in the movie version.

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