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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   All About Our Town: Using Brochures to Teach Informational Writing
   Students explore their towns' landmarks, symbols, and people; look at brochures and other informational tools; practice writing for a specific audience and revising; and work collaboratively to create a brochure.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Analyzing How Narrative Structure Generates Empathy in Wonder
   This lesson builds students' understanding of empathy by defining key terms and comparing responses to characters when they are introduced by someone else, and then when they narrate the story themselves.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Creating a Classroom Newspaper
   Students write authentic newspaper stories, including learning about various aspects of newspapers, such as writing an article, online articles, newspaper reading habits, and layout and design techniques.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Creating Classroom Community by Crafting Themed Poetry Collections
   Students create poetry collections with the theme of "getting to know each other." They study and then write a variety of forms of poetry to include in their collections.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Examining Plot Conflict through a Comparison/Contrast Essay
   Students explore picture books to identify the characteristics of four types of conflict. They then write about a conflict they have experienced and compare it to a conflict from literature.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Fairy Tales from Life
   Picture books provide the basis for an analysis of fairy tale elements before students write their own original tales.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension Using Social Studies
   Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through lesson activities that incorporate research, imagination, writing, visual arts, and drama.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Learning About Research and Writing Using the American Revolution
   Students across the board will get a kick out of researching a historical figure from the American Revolution to create an acrostic poem.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Literature as a Jumping Off Point for Nonfiction Inquiry
   Students use text sets to research a topic inspired by a fiction book they have read. A text set is a collection of multiple text genres with a single focus.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Moving Toward Acceptance Through Picture Books and Two-Voice Texts
    Students read and discuss literature about intolerance and diversity. They work with a partner to write two-voice poems that illustrate situations of intolerance at their school and suggest a step toward acceptance.

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