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101. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Printout  |  Writing Starter
     RAFT Writing Template
     Students can utilize this printout to organize their writing as they learn to use the RAFT strategy. This printout enables students to clearly define their role, audience, format, and topic for writing.
102. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 18
     Raymond Carver was inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.
     Students identify characteristics of Carver's work and compare them to other authors, as well as to literary minimalism. Students then write original poems or short stories in minimalist style.
103. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
     Reaching Across Time: Scaffolded Engagements With a 19th-Century Text
     Students in the 21st century need to build background knowledge and fill in textual gaps to enter the unfamiliar world of "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street."
104. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
     Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections to Literature
     Students write a narrative of place, a character sketch, an extended metaphor poem and a persuasive essay then link all four texts to quotations they have selected from a novel.
105. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
     Recording Readers Theatre: Developing Comprehension and Fluency With Audio Texts
     Students investigate audio texts of mystery stories, evaluate them in terms of both literary and audio qualities, and create Readers Theatre scripts, which they use to record their own podcasts.
106. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
     "Roused by the Change of Scene": Analyzing a Film Adaptation of Jane Eyre
     As part of their study of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, students read selected sections of the novel closely and compare their representation in the text to representations in the 2007 Masterpiece adaptation of Jane Eyre. They use the concepts of time/pacing, character, and theme to focus their analysis and to plan an adaptation of a scene of their choice.
107. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
     Rummaging for Fiction: Using Found Photographs and Notes to Spark Story Ideas
     In this lesson, students use found notes and found photographs as inspiration to help them identify subjects, settings, characters, and conflicts for pieces of creative writing.
108. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Mobile App  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
     RWT Flip Book
     The Flip Book app is designed to allow users to type and illustrate tabbed flip books.
109. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Mobile App  |  Inquiry & Analysis
     RWT Hero's Journey
     Students can use this mobile app to learn about the elements of the hero's journey, analyze a text that follows the hero's journey pattern, or start creating a hero story of their own.
110. 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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