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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
   This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They choose important quotations from the text and work in groups to formulate "quiz" questions that their peers will answer.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 4
   Celebrate National Library Week!
   Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words through Diamante Poetry
   Students explore the ways that powerful and passionate words communicate the concepts of freedom, justice, discrimination, and the American Dream in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with The Piano Lesson
   August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson invites students to ask a number of questions—big
   and small. Students learn how to create effective discussion questions and then put them to use in student-led discussions.
   
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Literary Parodies: Exploring a Writer's Style through Imitation
   This lesson asks students to analyze the features of a poet's work then create their own poems based on the original model.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool"
   Students analyze the Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "We Real Cool" and then write about how the character's pool hall days might influence who the character becomes fifty years in the future.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   8 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 27
   Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar was born today in 1872.
   Students read one of Dunbar's most famous poems and explore how critical excerpts shape their understanding.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Put That on the List: Collaboratively Writing a Catalog Poem
   Using the structure of a list poem, students combine creative expression with poetic techniques and language exploration in order to write group poems about what really matters in their lives.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Reading Literature in Translation: Beowulf as a Case Study
   Using several translations of the same passage of Beowulf, this lesson introduces students to the idea that translation is not an objective practice, but that it involves "imaginative reconstruction."
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Mobile App  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
    RWT Stapleless Book
    The Stapleless Book app is designed to allow users to create with ease an eight-page book simply by folding and cutting. Students can choose from several different layouts for the pages of their books.

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