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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Authoring an Epilogue That Helps Our Characters Live On
   This lesson uses One Green Apple by Eve Bunting to teach how characters change across a text. It will also guide students through writing an epilogue to accompany their independent book.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring How Section Headings Support Understanding of Expository Texts
   Nonfiction may be dull for some students, but this lesson helps them focus on the main ideas. Through awareness of section headings, students learn to sort and categorize main concepts.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Guided Comprehension: Previewing Using an Anticipation Guide
   Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of previewing.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   How-To Writing: Motivating Students to Write for a Real Purpose
   It's not easy surviving fourth grade (or third or fifth)! In this lesson, students brainstorm survival tips for future fourth graders and incorporate those tips into an essay.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Once They're Hooked, Reel Them In: Writing Good Endings
   It's important to "hook" readers at a story's beginning, but it's equally important to keep them interested. In this lesson, students learn to write effective conclusions to their own stories.
   
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Strategic Reading and Writing: Summarizing Antislavery Biographies
   Antislavery heroes are the focus of this lesson. Students research a historical figure who played a key role in the abolition of slavery, and then create a three-dimensional biographical mobile.
   
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using Pictures to Build Schema for Social Studies Content
   How do you read an image? Students find out in this lesson in which they "read" several images of the Boston Massacre to better understand the event and recognize effects of propaganda.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using Tiered Companion Texts to Comprehend Complex Nonfiction Texts
   Students progress through increasingly difficult tiered texts to gain the necessary background knowledge and problem-solving skills to comprehend complex nonfiction texts.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Using Word Storms to Explore Vocabulary and Encourage Critical Thinking
    Students learn that dogs are more than just pets in this lesson, which teaches them to use research and vocabulary-acquisition strategies to learn and write about working dogs.