Students hone their critical thinking skills by learning how to make inferences from textual clues.

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.

During writing workshop, students research, write, revise, and share their own comprehensive biographies of African American jazz musicians.

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.

Conversation and cooperation bring out the best in students when they hold dialogues about their individual strengths, abilities, and talents.

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.

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

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.

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

Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.

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 haiku write descriptive poems and share with the class.

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.

This assignment will go viral with students as they think about the meanings of words and images in public service announcements from YouTube before creating a PSA of their own.

Imagination and illustration are the key in this lesson in which students read and create their own greeting cards.

Bookworms will enjoy the bytes they find in this lesson as they research and share information about online library services in places around the world.