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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing
    Cube Creator
    The interactive Cube Creator helps students identify and summarize key elements. It can be used as a prewriting or postreading activity.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Everyone Loves a Mystery: A Genre Study
    Students track the elements of mystery stories through Directed Learning-Thinking Activities, story maps, and puzzles. Then they offer clues for other readers as they plan and write original mystery stories.
13. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Activity & Project
    Explore Point of View in Fairy Tales
    Explore fairy tales told in both old and new ways and use an online tool to help children create their own "fractured" version of a fairy tale.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Exploring and Sharing Family Stories
    Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.
    
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Exploring Author's Voice Using Jane Addams Award-Winning Books
    History has many faces in this lesson in which students read Jane Addams Award-winning books to learn about peace, social justice, world community, and equality.
16. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Finding the Artist Within: Creating and Reading Visual Texts in the English Language Arts Classroom
    Discover ways to integrate visual arts and technology in your English language arts classroom.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
    Fractured Fairy Tales
    The Fractured Fairy Tale tool encourages students to create their own fractured fairy tales.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Guided Comprehension in Action: Teaching Summarizing With the Bio-Cube
    Students learn the ins and outs of writing biographies by researching a contemporary or historical figure and writing a summary.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 2
    Hans Christian Andersen was born on this date in 1805.
    Students write a brief summary of one of Andersen's stories, and then read the original story and compare the two versions of the tale with the Venn Diagram tool.
20. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Happily Ever After: Sharing Folk Literature With Elementary and Middle School Students
    This unique text provides background about folk literature and how to use this rich genre in your classroom.

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