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31. 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.
32. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Creating a Persuasive Podcast
    Students learn how to get their voice out on the web when they research issues important to them and compose a persuasive podcast to post online.
33. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Creating Character Blogs
    Students view examples of blogs, learn the basic elements of blog creation, and then create a blog from the perspective of a fictional character.
34. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Creative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities between Writing and Art
    Graphic organizers assist the development of comparative vocabulary and generate discussions of analogy and metaphor in art as students go on a real or virtual tour of an art gallery.
35. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Creative Writing in the Natural World: A Framing
    Students practice writing detailed, sensory-rich descriptions by framing a small piece of nature and freewriting about it. From this minilesson, students can develop a variety of types of writing.
36. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Critical Literacy in Action: Multimodal Texts on Global Warming
    Students will really warm up to this lesson about global warming as they study multimedia materials and use a variety of comprehension strategies.
37. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Critical Media Literacy: Commercial Advertising
    By looking at advertising and mass media critically, students begin to understand how the media oppresses certain groups, convinces people to purchase certain products, and influences culture.
38. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Critical Media Literacy: TV Programs
    By critically analyzing popular television programs, students develop an awareness of the messages that are portrayed through the media.
39. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
    Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.
    
40. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Cut up, Cover up, and Come Away with Ideas for Writing!
    Students rework their forgotten/abandoned drafts by cutting and covering up selected words. By creatively manipulating text, they explore portal writing, a strategy for envisioning a new story or story direction.

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