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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Bright Morning: Exploring Character Development in Fiction
   Students work as a class to explore a character in a book they have read by identifying traits and finding textual references to support their choices.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Bringing Economic Vocabulary to Life Through Video Posters
   Imagine if vocabulary could come alive with the click of a button! Students create video posters to demonstrate knowledge of new economics vocabulary.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Choosing Clear and Varied Dialogue Tags: A Minilesson
   In this minilesson, students explore the use of dialogue tags such as "he said" or "she answered" in picture books and novels, discussing their purpose, form, and style.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Collaborative Stories 2: Revising
   Using a collaborative story written by students, the teacher leads a shared-revising activity to help students consider content when revising, with students participating in the marking of text revisions.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Creating a Feast for the Senses With Mentor Texts
   This lesson teaches intermediate students to "use the experts" to learn how to revise to create sharp, sensory-rich experiences for their readers.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Draft Letters: Improving Student Writing through Critical Thinking
   Draft letters ask students to think critically about their writing on a specific assignment before submitting their work to a reader. This lesson explains and provides models for the strategy.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Finding Fabulous Financial Literacy Vocabulary With Fancy Nancy
   Fancy Nancy teaches fancy words. Did you know Nancy also teaches about fabulous financial literacy concepts? Explore basic economics vocabulary with the entrepreneur extraordinaire!
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Identifying and Classifying Verbs in Context
   The interactive read-aloud in this lesson helps students to identify and classify the three verb types—action, state-of-being or linking, and helping verbs.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Peer Review: Narrative
   This minilesson guides student in using the PQP technique—Praise–Question–Polish—to offer concrete and useful peer review feedback.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum
    Students learn about word families by reading Kevin Henkes's book Chrysanthemum, identifying words with certain vowel pair endings, and reading words with similar endings.

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