Students produce a Readers Theatre performance to compete to be named the Reading Idol. Students vote on the final performances and record them as podcasts.

American Sign Language is combined with the hilarious poetry and pictures of Sam's Sandwich, a lift-the-flap book, to engage all types of learners in acquiring key vocabulary.

This lesson is a conversation-starter! In this lesson, students learn about striking up deep-thought conversations and staying on topic in the form of a book talk.

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.

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 that dogs are more than just pets in this lesson, which teaches them to use research and vocabulary-acquisition strategies to learn and write about working dogs.

The rhyme and reason behind this lesson is that students will need to develop important reading skills to increase their reading fluency.

Students whose first language is not English reflect on nature through readings, a visit to a green area, and bookmaking using the writing process and peer feedback.

Students across the board will get a kick out of researching a historical figure from the American Revolution to create an acrostic poem.

Students thoroughly explore identifying synonyms and adjectives before using them to add variety and interest to their own writing.

This lesson is sure to sizzle, not fizzle, as students use comic strips to find onomatopoetic words, develop a vocabulary list from the words, and discuss why writers use onomatopoeia.

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 learn about personification by reading and discussing poems and then brainstorm nouns and verbs to create personification in their own poems.

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

Students will really get into character when they read short stories and analyze the how's and why's of characters' behaviors.

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.