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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   A Journal for Corduroy: Responding to Literature
   Connect home and school, literature and life, as students take a storybook character home with them and take turns writing stories about his visit.
2. 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.
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   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   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Flying to Freedom: Tar Beach and The People Could Fly
   Students look to the past and use historical context to compare and contrast two characters from folktales.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Teaching Language Skills Using the Phone Book
   Through a series of activities using the phone book, students learn to use text aids, collect information relevant to a topic, organize information, synthesize information and use key words.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Teaching Science Through Picture Books: A Rainforest Lesson
   Students read Welcome to the Green House, use note-taking strategies, find patterns in text structure, learn vocabulary in context, and write efferent and affective responses to the text.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Frog Beyond the Fairy Tale Character: Searching Informational Texts
   Frogs often appear as the main character in fiction stories, but what do students really know about frogs? Students find out in this lesson in which they research real-life frogs.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Writing Alternative Plots for Robert C. O'Brien's Z for Zachariah
   Students write new endings for the science fiction novel, Z for Zachariah by exploring alternative plotlines created by making different moral choices than those made by the main character.