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

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

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

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.

Students explore their towns' landmarks, symbols, and people; look at brochures and other informational tools; practice writing for a specific audience and revising; and work collaboratively to create a brochure.

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

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

In this lesson, students learn to ask the right questions about the validity of surveys.

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.

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.

Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.

Students get to write a whale of a tale when they complete a graphic organizer sequencing the journey of a mountain fish to a polluted waterway.

This lesson will be music to the students' ears when they hear that they get to read song lyrics and compose original lyrics for a familiar song.

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.

Safety first! In this lesson, students take the lessons taught by Officer Buckle and Gloria to heart as they explore safety in everyday situations.

With e-pals, students develop real-life writing and social experiences, learn the format of a friendly letter and parts of an e-mail message, and discover other cultures, languages, and geographic areas.

Students discover that they can make a world of difference when they participate in the online Earth Day bag program.

How well do your students know their peers? Students transform into investigative reporters as they interview a classmate, compile the biographical data into graphic form, and introduce the student to the class.