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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Comparing Fiction and Nonfiction with "Little Red Riding Hood Text" Sets
    Students discuss and compare differing versions of "Little Red Riding Hood" and other tales about wolves in cumulative read-aloud sessions and text set explorations.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Completing the Circle: The Craft of Circular Plot Structure
    Students identify, explore and apply the elements of circle plot structures to their own stories by using graphic organizers, reading and writing stories, and using checklists to assess their work.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Creating a Class Pattern Book With Popular Culture Characters
    Students hit the hallways with their favorite pop culture characters in this lesson to photograph the characters in various situations and then write about the pictures in a pattern-book structure.
    
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Designing Elements of Story in Little Blue and Little Yellow
    In this series of four lessons, students will explore key elements of design in Little Blue and
    Little Yellow to learn about setting, character relationships, and plot.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Diagram It! Identifying, Comparing, and Writing About Nonfiction Texts
    Students compare the traits fact and fiction by using a Venn diagram to compare fiction and nonfiction books about Native Americans.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Digging Deeper: Developing Comprehension Using Thank You, Mr. Falker
    A read-aloud of Patricia Polacco's Thank You, Mr. Falker helps promote deeper comprehension through questioning to achieve personal connections and discussions of character and theme.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Digging Up Details on Worms: Using the Language of Science in an Inquiry Study
    This lesson, in which students research worms in order to create a classroom habitat, incorporates reading and writing across content areas as well as math and science activities.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 11
    Ezra Jack Keats was born on this day in 1916.
    In celebration of Keats' birthday, students write stories that include some characters from Keats' books and practice using collage techniques with the Collage Machine.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm
    Students often believe that fiction writers make everything up, seldom realizing how research worms its way into entertaining writing. In this lesson, students read Diary of a Worm to find out how fact merges with fiction.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Family Ties: Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension
    Families are all about connections between people. In this lesson, students read three books about different families and make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections to those texts.

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