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11. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Activity & Project
    Afterschool and Summer Reading with LGBTQ Content
    Motivate your middle school reader with books that include LGBTQ characters.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Analyzing Advice as an Introduction to Shakespeare
    Popular culture provides an introduction to Shakespeare's poetic devices in this lesson, which asks students to explore an excerpt from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Analyzing First-Person Narration in Sharon Draper's Out of My Mind
    Students explore the different facets of complexity in the compelling first-person narrator in Sharon Draper's Out of My Mind.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Analyzing How Narrative Structure Generates Empathy in Wonder
    This lesson builds students' understanding of empathy by defining key terms and comparing responses to characters when they are introduced by someone else, and then when they narrate the story themselves.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    An Exploration of Text Sets: Supporting All Readers
    Students create text sets on a high interest topic and use the texts to practice three strategies for reading for information.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 5
    Annual fence-painting contests take place in Hannibal, Missouri.
    A scene from one of Twain's works is chosen and students map the story setting using the Story Map. Setting is then discussed as a class.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    A Portrait of Our World: Making Connections and Developing Comprehension
    Students engage in carousel walks, character analyses, global explorations, and genre studies while using valuable language arts strategies to build higher-level comprehension skills.
18. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
    Appreciating Audiobooks
    In this episode, you'll hear about what goes on behind the scenes in audiobook production. You'll also hear samples from an array of distinguished audio titles including YA classics as well as newer works of contemporary realistic fiction, dystopian fiction, historical fiction, and novels written in verse.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Astronomy Poetry: Combining Poetry With the Content Areas
    Students' responses to this lesson will be out of this world after they've researched astronomy to write poetry and compile a poetry book.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Audience & Purpose: Evaluating Disney's Changes to the Hercules Myth
    What drives changes to classic myths and fables? In this lesson students evaluate the changes Disney made to the myth of "Hercules" in order to achieve their audience and purpose.

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