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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Draft Letters: Improving Student Writing through Critical Thinking
    Draft letters ask students to think critically about their writing on a specific assignment before submitting their work to a reader. This lesson explains and provides models for the strategy.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Finding Common Ground: Using Logical, Audience-Specific Arguments
    Using a hypothetical situation, students generate arguments from opposing points of view, discover areas of commonality using Venn diagrams, and construct logical, audience-specific arguments to persuade their opponents.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    How Big Are Martin's Big Words? Thinking Big about the Future
    Inspired by the book Martin's Big Words, students explore information on Dr. King to think about his "big" words, then they write about their own "big" words and dreams.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Inside or Outside? A Minilesson on Quotation Marks and More
    Students often question whether a punctuation mark goes inside or outside the quotation marks, especially when writing dialogue. This lesson helps students identify the conventions and apply them to their text.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Is a Sentence a Poem?
    Students use their own poetry to analyze syntax, imagery, and meaning in a one-sentence poem by a canonical author to decide what makes it a poem.
    
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Let's Build a Snowman
    In this lesson, students use both fiction and nonfiction texts, the Internet, and a K-W-L chart to learn about how animals survive the winter.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Loaded Words: Vocabulary That Packs a Punch in Persuasive Writing
    In this minilesson, students practice identifying and purposefully using vocabulary in persuasive writing that is intended to have an emotional impact on the reader.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Peer Review: Narrative
    This minilesson guides student in using the PQP technique—Praise–Question–Polish—to offer concrete and useful peer review feedback.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
    Students compile a playlist of 10 songs representing a literary character and explain their choices based on the book's dialogue, plot, conflict, and resolution.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Promoting Cultural Values Through Alphabet Books
    C is for Culture in this lesson in which students research a culture different from their own and compile an alphabet book that showcases cultural symbols for each letter of the alphabet.

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