Students learn about the life and music of John Lennon, write a short story from their lives integrating lyrics from some of their favorite songs, and create a class book of stories.

Students use illustrations from The Mysteries of Harris Burdick as a guide to write mysteries and then present their stories to the class for students to discuss to which illustration each story corresponds.

Using different writing/drawing materials (e.g., markers, color pencils, pastels, etc.), students learn how to communicate different moods and/or feelings to support their written ideas and how authors do the same through their work.

Students engage in a rich study of vocabulary words from the song "America the Beautiful," using music and art.

Are your students easily fooled? You'll find out in this lesson in which students carefully and critically examine hoax websites to determine their validity.

Students will have a blast as they use descriptive language to write about an "explosive" and dramatic moment in their lives.

Students will think this lesson should make the headlines when they finish researching Ernie Pyle's work in preparation for writing their own news articles.

Students get the big picture of the Middle East when they read and analyze Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis.

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

The classroom becomes a stage in this interactive lesson in which students sing, act, and design comic strips to learn the meanings and spellings of common homophones.

"Bessie bird lives in a barn" in this lesson in which students create alliterative animal songs to help them learn letter names and consonant sounds and build phonemic awareness.

A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.

Paper and pixels get compared in this lesson in which students compare both printed and online versions of a magazine.

Students won't miss a beat in this reading fluency lesson that combines music and poetry.

Visual clues in winter-themed books used in this lesson encourage students to make real-world math connections.

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

Students learn about word families by reading Kevin Henkes's book Chrysanthemum, identifying words with certain vowel pair endings, and reading words with similar endings.

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

The game Bingo is transformed in this lesson in which students use symbols and images to make connections to environmental print through the use of personalized Bingo cards.