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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities between Writing and Art
   Graphic organizers assist the development of comparative vocabulary and generate discussions of analogy and metaphor in art as students go on a real or virtual tour of an art gallery.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Developing a Definition of Reading through Investigation in Middle School
   Students collaboratively interact with a variety of texts as they define reading and develop their own Reader's Profiles modeled after online social networking sites.
   
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Dynamic Duo Text Talks: Examining the Content of Internet Sites
   An Observation and Inquiry Sheet guides students as they analyze and compare their reactions to the value, engagement, and credibility of three websites related to Anne Frank and the Holocaust.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Expository Escapade—Detective's Handbook
   Students create a Detective's Handbook based on a detective mystery they have read. The handbooks include expository and descriptive writing, as well as a letter.
   
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Fairy Tale Autobiographies
   Students read and analyze fairy tales from several cultures, identifying common elements. Choosing common situations, students write original fairy tales, using picture books as models and a peer review process.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Found Poems/Parallel Poems
   Students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research
   Students use their communication and writing skills as they interview a partner, write an article about them, and create a multimodal presentation to introduce their partner to the class.
   
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Leading to Great Places in the Middle School Classroom
   Students examine leads in existing texts and create alternative leads for them before revising leads in their own writing.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Memories Matter: The Giver and Descriptive Writing Memoirs
   Using The Giver, students discuss the importance recorded history. This provides context for descriptive writing of students' own history in a lesson that integrates personal writing, research, and literary response.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Reading and Writing Workshop: Freak the Mighty
    Students use a variety of reading and writing strategies as they read Rodman Philbrick's Freak the Mighty.
    

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