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81. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Unwinding A Circular Plot: Prediction Strategies in Reading and Writing
    Students use graphic organizers to explore plot in circular stories while focusing on prediction and sequencing. After exploring the features of circular plot stories, students write their own stories.
82. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using a Predictable Text to Teach High-Frequency Words
    After reading an engaging yet predictable text about a child looking for his cat, students use a similar format and high-frequency words to craft tales about their own lost pets.
83. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using Picture Books to Teach Characterization in Writing Workshop
    Students explore character development through experiences with picture books. They learn about the connections between reading and writing and apply the information they learn to revisions of their own writing.
84. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using Picture Books to Teach Plot Development and Conflict Resolution
    Students read picture books to explore the concepts of plot development and conflict resolution. They first learn about the connections between reading and writing, and then revise their own writing.
85. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using Writing and Role-Play to Engage the Reluctant Writer
    What does the world look like through a javelina's eyes? Students become javelinas in this lesson when they analyze a character and write from his or her perspective.
86. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    What's in a Mystery? Exploring and Identifying Mystery Elements
    Students identify the characteristics of mystery writing, outline a mystery story using a graphic organizer, write and revise their own mystery story, edit each other's work, and share their mysteries.
87. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Who's Got Mail? Using Literature to Promote Authentic Letter Writing
    Students discuss and chart letter elements and write their own letters to adults at school, reinforcing letter-writing skills beyond the classroom lesson.
88. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Worth Its Weight: Letter Writing with "The Things They Carried"
    This lesson uses a letter-writing activity based on Tim O'Brien's story "The Things They Carried" to build empathy as students examine the weight they symbolically carry in their own lives.
89. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Writing Alternative Plots for Robert C. O'Brien's Z for Zachariah
    Students write new endings for the science fiction novel, Z for Zachariah by exploring alternative plotlines created by making different moral choices than those made by the main character.

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