Give students an authentic reason to read and write by researching blogs written by their peers around the world and then writing their own.

Through a close reading of Amelia Bedelia, students reread the material to discuss text-dependent questions, promoting deep thinking about the text and its characters.

Imagine if vocabulary could come alive with the click of a button! Students create video posters to demonstrate knowledge of new economics vocabulary.

Students compile a playlist of 10 songs representing a literary character and explain their choices based on the book's dialogue, plot, conflict, and resolution.

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

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.

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

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

Students use a Discussion Web to engage in meaningful discussion of the question, "Are people equal?"

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

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

What's in a narrative? Students find out in this lesson in which they explore four narrative elements—setting, characters, problem/solution, and plot, through purpose-driven read-alouds and independent reading.

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.

Lights, camera, action, and a bit of mystery! In this lesson, students use mystery props in a skit bag to create and perform in short, impromptu skits.

What did the wolf think of Red Riding Hood? Once Upon a Fairy Tale offers his side of the story and more, providing vivid examples of how voice enlivens narrative. After comparing versions of the story, students apply the concept of voice to Fractured Fairy Tales and other writing activities.