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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Active Reading Using The Enormous Watermelon
   Using names and high-frequency words from nursery rhymes and the Big Book The Enormous Watermelon, students engage in word recognition activities such as character identification and a word matching game.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Developing a Living Definition of Reading in the Elementary Classroom
   Using the guiding question, "What is reading?" students interact with a variety of texts as they uncover the skills necessary to interact with texts and develop a definition of reading.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Fairy Tales from Life
   Picture books provide the basis for an analysis of fairy tale elements before students write their own original tales.
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  |  Standard Lesson
   Leading to Great Places in the Elementary Classroom
   Students examine great leads in children's literature before writing or revising a lead in their own writing.
7. 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.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Literature Circles: Getting Started
   Students practice different ways of collaborating to read a work of literature. They work in different roles as they compose and answer questions, discover new vocabulary, and examine literary elements.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Literature Circles with Primary Students Using Self-Selected Reading
   Students respond to self-selected books in journals, and talk about their books daily in small groups. The teacher guides students by offering suggestions and writing with them in dialogue journals.
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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