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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Acquiring New Vocabulary Through Book Discussion Groups
   This lesson employs direct instruction and small-group discussion to help students learn new vocabulary skills while reading Patricia Polacco's Pink and Say.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 5
   Annual fence-painting contests take place in Hannibal, Missouri.
   A scene from one of Twain's works is chosen and students map the story setting using the Story Map. Setting is then discussed as a class.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Applying Question-Answer Relationships to Pictures
   A picture is worth a thousand words as students are guided in viewing wordless picture books and responding to four different types of questions about the images they see.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 14
   Author Laura Joffe Numeroff was born in 1953.
   Using one of Numeroff's books as a model, students use the circle plot structure as a culminating project for a unit of study completed in the classroom.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Building a Learning Community: Crafting Rules for the Classroom
   Students will learn to mind their ps and qs in this lesson on etiquette and appropriate behavior in the classroom.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Charlotte is Wise, Patient, and Caring: Adjectives and Character Traits
   Students find examples of adjectives in a shared reading. Then students "become" major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using powerful adjectives.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Dancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry
   Students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems and then brainstorm nouns and verbs to create personification in their own poems.
8. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Guided Comprehension in Grades 3-8
   This book has everything you need to use the Guided Comprehension Model effectively with students in in upper elementary and middle school.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Inferring How and Why Characters Change
   Students will really get into character when they read short stories and analyze the how's and why's of characters' behaviors.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    No Teachers Allowed: Student-Led Book Clubs Using QAR
    Students are introduced to the Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy through a read-aloud and question sort. Students then use the strategy to develop questions for a peer-led book discussion.

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