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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    American Folklore: A Jigsaw Character Study
    Groups of students read and discuss American folklore stories, each group reading a different story. Using a jigsaw strategy, the groups compare character traits and main plot points of the stories. A diverse selection of American folk tales is used for this lesson, which is adaptable to any text set.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    A Musical Prompt: Postcards From the Concert
    Students won't miss a beat in this musical lesson that combines listening with personal response on a postcard.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Applying Question-Answer Relationships to Pictures
    A picture is worth a thousand words as students are guided in viewing wordless picture books and responding to four different types of questions about the images they see.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    A Race With Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion
    In this lesson, athletics, aesthetics, and poetics intersect in new ways as developing literacy learners experiment together with the forms of language.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    A Recipe for Writing: Fairy Tale Feasts
    After examining recipes written based on students' favorite fairy tales, students research a recipe related to their favorite story, book, or fairy tale and include it in a classroom recipe book.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Artistic Elements: Exploring Art Through Descriptive Writing
    Paint a vivid picture in your reader's mind with good descriptive writing! Artwork provides the perfect starting point for practicing descriptive writing that conveys color, shape, line, and mood.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    A Schema-Building Study With Patricia Polacco
    Students use the Semantic Impressions and Possible Sentences strategies to write about Patricia Polacco's books Chicken Sunday and Rechenka's Egg, complete a character study, and write using a WebQuest.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Authoring an Epilogue That Helps Our Characters Live On
    This lesson uses One Green Apple by Eve Bunting to teach how characters change across a text. It will also guide students through writing an epilogue to accompany their independent book.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Author Study: Improving Reading Comprehension Using Inference and Comparison
    "Reading between the lines" can be as crucial to comprehension as understanding the words on the page. Through guided author studies, students experience the benefits and the limitations of inference.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Behind the Scenes With Cinderella
    Cinderella without castles, coaches, or ball gowns? Students use versions of Cinderella to explore how the setting of a story—time, place, and culture—affects the characters and plot.

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