Students learn to comprehend the linguistic text styles of different content areas and use the interactive ReadWriteThink Notetaker tool as the teacher models the exercise.

Students learn to use tricolons—a writer's technique of putting words and phrases into groups of threes—to add rhythm and power to their writing.

Bring the vocabulary of film to life through the processes of filmmaking. Students learn terminology and techniques simultaneously as they plan, film, and edit a short video.

Students publish their work in an electronic portfolio, which enables them to respond to each other's content online.

Students in grades 5 through 12 read and respond to electronic books by using e-book tools and features, including digital note-taking capabilities.

Past meets present in this lesson in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.

Conversation and cooperation bring out the best in students when they hold dialogues about their individual strengths, abilities, and talents.

Students identify similes in poetry and gain experience in using similes as a poetic device in their own work.

Images have power—they can trigger memories or symbolize abstract ideas. Students put the power of images to the test as they analyze symbolism in Night and create symbolic photomontages.

Students learn how to walk a mile in someone else's shoes by reading historical fiction about the Underground Railroad.

Movie music and magic set the scene for this lesson in which students analyze a scene from Good Morning, Vietnam and then create a scene of their own.

Students will find their inner poet laureate in this lesson that involves writing a poem in the style of Robert Frost.

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.

Students' groans about studying poetry may disappear with this lesson in which students read poetry from various writers and use these poems to examine the sounds and sense of language.

Students use a Discussion Web to engage in meaningful discussion of the question, "Are people equal?"

What does the world look like through someone else's eyes? Guide students in using colorful paper glasses to examine a story of school desegregation from multiple perspectives.

Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.

Students learn about organic gardening by developing their own research questions, conducting research, gardening at their school, creating signs about their plants, and presenting their research to the class.

Literature takes on a life of its own as students take a hands-on approach to exploring A Raisin in the Sun for cultural and historical context.

Vocabulary gumshoes use context clues and semantics to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.