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31. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Reading Movies and TV: Learning the "Language" of Moving-Image Texts
    Introduce students to the idea that movies and TV have their own language and grammar, which gives them special ways of telling their stories.
32. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Shared Experiences, Individual Impressions: Buddies Create PowerPoint Stories
    Stories and snapshots of school-related experiences are the perfect sources of inspiration for students as they create PowerPoint presentations with the help of an older student.
    
33. 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.
34. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing
    A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.
35. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    The Children's Picture Book Project
    In this lesson students evaluate published children's picture storybooks. Students then plan, write, illustrate, and publish their own children's picture books.
36. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Comic Book Show and Tell
    Students craft comic scripts using clear, descriptive, and detailed writing that shows (illustrates) and tells (directs). After peers create an artistic interpretation of the script, students revise their original scripts.
37. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    The History Behind Song Lyrics
    Students research the items listed in the song "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel, noting their historical relevance, and then document their findings using an online chart.
38. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Mysteries of Harris Burdick: Using Illustrations to Guide Writing
    Students use illustrations from The Mysteries of Harris Burdick as a guide to write mysteries
    and then present their stories to the class for students to discuss to which illustration each
    story corresponds.
39. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    To, Too, or Two: Developing an Understanding of Homophones
    The classroom becomes a stage in this interactive lesson in which students sing, act, and design comic strips to learn the meanings and spellings of common homophones.
40. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    You're the Top! Pop Culture Then and Now
    Students analyze the lyrics to Cole Porter's "You're the Top!" and then update them to include current "tops" in pop culture.

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