Students reflect on their school year, creating a digital scrapbook consisting of images and text to present to their school community.

Students learn content area vocabulary and increase reading comprehension using the Vocabulary, Language, Prediction (VLP) approach.

Bring the vocabulary of film to life through the processes of filmmaking. Students learn terminology and techniques simultaneously as they plan, film, and edit a short video.

Students demonstrate their knowledge of cause-and-effect relationships by creating original comic strips and sharing their completed work in an oral presentation format.

Students publish their work in an electronic portfolio, which enables them to respond to each other's content online.

Students in grades 5 through 12 read and respond to electronic books by using e-book tools and features, including digital note-taking capabilities.

Students use various tools and features of digital readers to develop vocabulary, support comprehension, respond to text, improve fluency, and enhance the reading experience.

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.

Water is always moving in a continuous cycle from liquid to solid to gas and back again. Students study this never-ending cycle through shared readings, center activities, and experiments.

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

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.

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.