Students complete a family survey and plan a website to share the responses, increasing their understanding and appreciation of their own families and cultures, and their classmates as well.

Students won't miss a beat in this musical lesson that combines listening with personal response on a postcard.

Imagination and application are key to this tall tale lesson in which students take what they know about tall tales to spin a yarn of their own.

Give students an authentic reason to read and write by researching blogs written by their peers around the world and then writing their own.

Students use various tools and features of digital readers to develop vocabulary, support comprehension, respond to text, improve fluency, and enhance the reading experience.

Students will learn to skim and scan to make sure they don't flounder when they're surfing the Internet for facts to help them complete riddles about the United States.

Tradition and technology come together in this lesson in which students learn about Alaskan animals through Native American tales and their own online research.

Journey around the world with students as they read a Japanese, African, or Welsh folk tale, create a visual depiction of the tale, research the tale's culture, and present findings.

Using selected characters from a text of their choice, students put their literary analysis skills to work by creating fictional character trading cards.

In this lesson, athletics, aesthetics, and poetics intersect in new ways as developing literacy learners experiment together with the forms of language.