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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Compare and Contrast Electronic Text With Traditionally Printed Text
    Students become familiar with the similarities and differences between electronic and printed text by comparing the textual aids included in a textbook with those of an educational website.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Comparing and Contrasting: Picturing an Organizational Pattern
    Using picture books as mentor texts, students learn effective strategies for organizing information that compares and contrasts. Students can then apply appropriate organizational strategies to their own papers.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Comparing Electronic and Print Texts About the Civil War Soldier
    Which side will win as students investigate both sides of the battle of using print versus online text for research as they learn about the lives of Civil War soldiers?
    
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Cosmic Oranges: Observation and Inquiry Through Descriptive Writing and Art
    Students will eat up this lesson about oranges as they practice the skills that help them investigate and make detailed observations for descriptive purposes.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Critical Literacy in Action: Multimodal Texts on Global Warming
    Students will really warm up to this lesson about global warming as they study multimedia materials and use a variety of comprehension strategies.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Developing Citizenship Through Rhetorical Analysis
    Students analyze rhetorical strategies in online editorials, building knowledge of strategies and awareness of local and national issues. This lesson teaches students connections between subject, writer, and audience and how rhetorical strategies are used in everyday writing.
    
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Developing Story Structure With Paper-Bag Skits
    Lights, camera, action, and a bit of mystery! In this lesson, students use mystery props in a skit bag to create and perform in short, impromptu skits.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
    Striking images can leave lasting impressions on viewers. In this lesson, students make text–self–world connections to a nature- or science-related topic as they collaboratively design a multimedia presentation.
    

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