Students collaboratively interact with a variety of texts as they define reading and develop their own Reader's Profiles modeled after online social networking sites.
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Students keep a daily diary that records how and when they listen to audio texts, then analyze the details and compare their results to published reports on American radio listeners.
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In this author study, students listen to and discuss four books by Leo Lionni. They identify similarities and differences in the stories and then compare two stories of their choice.
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Students examine three examples of revisionist fairy tales in which female characters act in empowered roles rather than behaving helpless and submissive.
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Students create acrostic poems using their names and the names of things that are important to them.
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Using the character of Edward Cullen from the Twilight series, this lesson introduces the Byronic hero and asks students to compare the Byronic hero to the traditional hero and villain.
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Writing professional reviews teaches students to understand audience, content, and publication guidelines. In this lesson, students put these into practice as professional writers critiquing, designing, and publishing reviews on Amazon.com.
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Students use picture books as framing texts for research, freeing them from the language of encyclopedia sources and allowing them to focus their attention on the content of their papers.
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Students read biographies and explore websites of selected American authors and then role-play as the authors.
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Students increase their media literacy skills by critically examining and revising junk mail.
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Students select a book to read based only on its cover art. After reading the book, they use an interactive tool to create a new cover for it.
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Students become familiar with the similarities and differences between electronic and printed text by comparing the textual aids included in a textbook with those of an educational website.
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Students must think critically to create comic strips highlighting six important scenes from a book they have read.
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Let the students be the vocabulary experts! Prior to whole class instruction, students create online flashcards and teach the class the new vocabulary.
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Students reflect on their school year, creating a digital scrapbook consisting of images and text to present to their school community.
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History takes on new dimensions in this interactive multimedia lesson that emphasizes the B-D-A approach to research as students investigate the experiences of people with disabilities since the early 1800s.
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Students add up the effect of images and persuasive language to analyze the art and words in advertisements.
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Students use trading cards to examine fictional characters in a story.
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Students can use this tool to learn about the elements of the hero's journey, analyze a text that follows the hero's journey pattern, or start creating a hero story of their own.
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This lesson uses "One Green Apple" by Eve Bunting to teach how characters change across a text. It will also guide students through writing an epilogue to accompany their independent book.
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