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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Cosmic Oranges: Observation and Inquiry Through Descriptive Writing and Art
   Students will eat up this lesson about oranges as they practice the skills that help them investigate and make detailed observations for descriptive purposes.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Critical Literacy in Action: Multimodal Texts on Global Warming
   Students will really warm up to this lesson about global warming as they study multimedia materials and use a variety of comprehension strategies.
3. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines
   Written with the Common Core State Standards firmly in mind, this book presents a much-needed instructional model for disciplinary literacy.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
   Striking images can leave lasting impressions on viewers. In this lesson, students make text–self–world connections to a nature- or science-related topic as they collaboratively design a multimedia presentation.
   
5. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Activity & Project
   Let's Go On A Poetry Walk!
   The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and you're surrounded by brilliant shades of green! Observe and collect sensory images from nature and use the sights, sounds, smells, and textures to create original nature poetry.
6. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   Life's Journeys: Help Along the Way
   Tap into teen and preteen readers' interest in adolescent-mentor relationships with these recommendations!
   
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan
   Reading Through Different Lenses: Making Text Connections Across the Curriculum
   Students learn to comprehend the linguistic text styles of different content areas and use the interactive ReadWriteThink Notetaker tool as the teacher models the exercise.
8. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Activity & Project
   The Natural World as Inspiration: An Outdoor Art Show
   Children incorporate materials from outdoors with paints or crayons to create pieces of art to display on their clotheslines, fences, or porches for a neighborhood art show.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using THIEVES to Preview Nonfiction Texts
   Students become "thieves" in this lesson as they use a previewing strategy to "steal" information from textbooks and other nonfiction texts before actually reading them.