Using the Alphabet Organizer app, students create alphabet books to review math terms.

Using mobile devices, students capture images to represent literary devices. Students then reflect on why their images depict the literary devices.

Students improve a slide show by removing pictures. Their reasons for cutting pictures are translated into revision guidelines for cutting unnecessary words and sections from their rough drafts.

In this lesson, students work with proverbs from home and from around the world, exploring how these maxims are tied to a culture's values and everyday experience.

Students are introduced to proverbs and explore how proverbs are often tied to a culture's values and everyday experience, although their meanings are not always readily apparent to us today.

Students must "become" a character in a novel in order to describe themselves and other characters using powerful adjectives.

Students explore figurative language in poetry by reading and writing riddle poems.

Students analyze Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne to determine how an author keeps an audience interested by creating voice and to applying that knowledge to their own writing.

Students respond to a book they have read by thinking symbolically to create a business card for one of the characters.

Students make bookmarks on computers and share their ideas with other readers at their school, while practicing summarizing, recognizing symbols, and writing reviews—all for an authentic audience.

Using the film The Sandlot, students are introduced to the literary devices of flashbacks and flash-forwards. They then write their own stories using those devices.

Through a series of picture book read-alouds, students engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender.

In this autobiographical prewriting activity, students brainstorm important memories, choose graphics to represent these memories, and then rank the events as low or high points in their lives.

Students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.

Students examine leads in existing texts and create alternative leads for them before revising leads in their own writing.

Using The Giver, students discuss the importance recorded history. This provides context for descriptive writing of students' own history in a lesson that integrates personal writing, research, and literary response.

Students collaboratively interact with a variety of texts as they define reading and develop their own Reader's Profiles modeled after online social networking sites.