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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Directed Listening-Thinking Activity for "The Tell-Tale Heart"
   What’s that sound? Students participate in a Directed Listening–Thinking Activity (DLTA) using "The Tell-Tale Heart," make predictions, and respond in the form of an acrostic poem or comic strip.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   "America the Beautiful": Using Music and Art to Develop Vocabulary
   Students engage in a rich study of vocabulary words from the song “America the Beautiful,” using music and art.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Recipe for Writing: Fairy Tale Feasts
   After examining recipes written based on students’ favorite fairy tales, students research a recipe related to their favorite story, book, or fairy tale and include it in a classroom recipe book.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Beyond “What I Did on Vacation”: Exploring the Genre of Travel Writing
   After reading and analyzing short examples of travel writing and discussing conventions of the genre, students write their own travel articles.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
   In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Collaborating on a Class Book: Exploring Before-During-After Sequences
   Students and the teacher produce a class book through a group-writing activity, focusing on a basic before-during-after sequence of events.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Discovering Poetic Form and Structure Using Concrete Poems
   This lesson uses concrete poems to explore the connection between a poem's layout and its meaning. While appropriate any time of year, the lesson is especially topical near Columbus Day.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Entering History: Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King, Jr.
   Nikki Giovanni’s poem “The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.” is paired with Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, taking students on a quest through time to the Civil Rights movement.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   How Big Are Martin’s Big Words? Thinking Big about the Future
   Inspired by the book Martin’s Big Words, students explore information on Dr. King to think about his "big" words, then they write about their own "big" words and dreams.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Introducing Basic Media Literacy Education Skills with Greeting Cards
    In this lesson, students examine and create holiday/event cards, analyze holiday elements, and create their own. The activities help students focus on the reasons for composing messages as they do.

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