Sixth graders set and are encouraged to meet their reading goals and demonstrate knowledge of literary elements in this lesson.

Introduce your young readers to the book review. Groups of writers practice the basic steps of writing a book report and complete an Accordion-Book Summary activity. The lesson includes book report basics and directions to make...

Students read a chapter in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and define new words for their dictionaries. For this vocabulary lesson students choose two or three assignment from a list of projects and complete it using...

Students create a class big book using the "I Spy" game format and adding 3 clues to help readers guess the areas of a naturalization project.

High schoolers, in groups, read and analyze portions of Keith Gilyard's "Poemographies". They create original visual "poemographies" and participate in a written response activity.