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21. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Multimedia Responses to Content Area Topics Using Fact-"Faction"-Fiction
    Students climb into the mind of a spider in this lesson that asks them to compose a spider diary using spider facts, fiction, and "faction"—fiction that sounds like fact.
22. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Once They're Hooked, Reel Them In: Writing Good Endings
    It's important to "hook" readers at a story's beginning, but it's equally important to keep them interested. In this lesson, students learn to write effective conclusions to their own stories.
    
23. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Opening the Door for Reading: Sharing Favorite Texts to Build Community
    In this lesson, students build classroom community by exploring environmental print and a teacher-created display that focuses on a favorite book. They then create and share their own presentations.
24. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Play Ball! Encouraging Critical Thinking Through Baseball Questions
    Cooperation and critical thinking are the name of the game as students use baseball facts they find online to create trivia questions for a class Jeopardy game.
25. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Poetry: Sound and Sense
    Students' groans about studying poetry may disappear with this lesson in which students read poetry from various writers and use these poems to examine the sounds and sense of language.
26. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Reading Idol! Bringing Readers Theatre Center Stage in Your Classroom
    Students produce a Readers Theatre performance to compete to be named the Reading Idol. Students vote on the final performances and record them as podcasts.
27. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Reading, Writing, Haiku Hiking! A Class Book of Picturesque Poems
    Students learn haiku
    write descriptive poems
    and share with the class.
    
28. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Reciprocal Revision: Making Peer Feedback Meaningful
    Interpreting art is a subjective process. In this lesson, students write written responses analyzing a work of art and use feedback from their peers to revise or confirm their initial responses.
29. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Sharing Favorite Books Using Interactive Character Trading Cards
    Using selected characters from a text of their choice, students put their literary analysis skills to work by creating fictional character trading cards.
30. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
    Students learn about the life and music of John Lennon, write a short story from their lives integrating lyrics from some of their favorite songs, and create a class book of stories.

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