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21. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Charlotte is Wise, Patient, and Caring: Adjectives and Character Traits
    Students find examples of adjectives in a shared reading. Then students "become" major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using powerful adjectives.
22. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
    Students analyze "choose your own adventure" stories and brainstorm to develop setting, characters, and plots for their own adventures stories and related Websites.
    
23. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Choosing, Chatting, and Collecting: Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy
    Students identify interesting words from Shakespeare's plays and add them to a classroom vocabulary collection.
24. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Collaborating, Writing, Linking: Using Wikis to Tell Stories Online
    Students become online authors in this lesson in which they write and post a short story using wiki technology.
25. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Collaborative Stories 1: Prewriting and Drafting
    Students hone their teamwork skills and play off each other's writing strengths as they participate in prewriting activities for a story to be written collaboratively by the whole class.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby
    Students explore the connotations of the colors associated with the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
29. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies
    Students compare and analyze novels and the movies adapted from them. They design new DVD covers and a related insert for the movies, reflecting their response to the movie version.
30. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Creating a Feast for the Senses With Mentor Texts
    This lesson teaches intermediate students to "use the experts" to learn how to revise to create sharp, sensory-rich experiences for their readers.

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