Students put their heads together in a poetry circle to learn and practice different forms of poetry.

Families are all about connections between people. In this lesson, students read three books about different families and make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections to those texts.

It's important to "hook" readers at a story's beginning, but it's equally important to keep them interested. In this lesson, students learn to write effective conclusions to their own stories.

Students make predictions about Bridge to Terabithia and its characters, complete character studies, and relate the characters' experiences to their own as they identify ways to make and keep friends.

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

Students use trading cards to examine fictional characters in a story.

Students analyze the structure of a postmodern picture book, Black and White, to uncover how authors create unexpected plots and connections and form relationships between words and illustrations.

Students look to the past and use historical context to compare and contrast two characters from folktales.

Was the Big Bad Wolf really all that bad? This lesson encourages students to analyze multiple viewpoints, view texts from different angles, and recognize gaps in narrative.

Students improve their reading fluency by selecting a poem online to perform in class.