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51. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Color of Silence: Sensory Imagery in Pat Mora's Poem "Echoes"
    Pat Mora's poem "Echoes" demonstrates that our senses are powerful tools for literary analysis and comprehension as students use their senses to discover new ways to read and write.
52. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Compare and Contrast Electronic Text With Traditionally Printed Text
    Students become familiar with the similarities and differences between electronic and printed text by comparing the textual aids included in a textbook with those of an educational website.
53. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Comparing and Contrasting: Picturing an Organizational Pattern
    Using picture books as mentor texts, students learn effective strategies for organizing information that compares and contrasts. Students can then apply appropriate organizational strategies to their own papers.
54. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Comparing Portrayals of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Photography and Literature
    In this lesson, students analyze similarities and differences among depictions of slavery in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Frederick Douglass' Narrative, and nineteenth century photographs of slaves. Students formulate their analysis of the role of art and fiction, as they attempt to reliably reflect social ills, in a final essay.
55. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Conducting Inner-Outer Circle Discussions
    This guide shares the steps to take to get more students talking by dividing the group into speaking and non-speaking circles.
56. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
    Connecting with the Classics
    Tune in to hear about recent titles that retell or reinvent classic stories, others that reimagine the lives of classic authors, and still others that invoke classic texts in contemporary storylines.
57. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Printout  |  Graphic Organizer
    Connection Stems
    Connection Stems give students the language (and a reminder) to support their understanding by tying new learning to what they know about themselves and their world.
    
58. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Printout  |  Graphic Organizer
    Connection Web
    Students use this printout to expand on connections they have made to a text and use those details to write essays or create projects about the text.
59. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Consensus Decision Making
    This strategy guide introduces Consensus Decision Making, a method for facilitating and engaging students in a critical discussion of the central ideas of a text.
60. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 17
    Constitution Day is observed today in the U.S.
    Students explore an annotated online version of the Constitution before sharing what they learned about one aspect of the document through the Trading Card interactive.

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