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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Students become online authors in this lesson in which they write and post a short story using wiki technology.

Students read a text to identify important words, discuss them with peers, summarize the text, and read related texts to identify how those words are used in other contexts.

Students circle their desks as they analyze their own participation within a small group discussion.

What wonderful ways words work! The parts of speech are the highlight of this lesson in which students identify parts of speech in a nonsensical poem and then create their own wild and wacky rhymes.

Bookworms will enjoy the bytes they find in this lesson as they research and share information about online library services in places around the world.

Students learn techniques that can aid in memorizing information, play online memory games, and participate in a class memory game to develop and share their own memory strategies.

Student pairs aim to be the first team to call out "bingo" in this lesson in which they use skimming and scanning to locate information about ancient Greece and Rome.

Students use sets of words that share a spelling pattern to create a card game like "Go Fish" and then play the game in groups, helping them improve their spelling.

Students study common root words and affixes, improve their comprehension and spelling, and make a card game in which they form words with a prefix, root word, and suffix.