Students, in groups, create a display showing a "train trip" to a destination of their choice from a teacher-made list. They also answer a series of questions related to their trip. Groups present their displays.

Learners examine how to develop a story's plot and resolve its conflict by analyzing picture books. Students use the text and illustrations as cues and the ReadWriteThink Story Map as tools in their understanding.

Pupils identify words with visual similarities in a poem. Students recognize words that sound the same at the end and understand rhyming words. Pupils apply phonological awareness to help identify unknown words in context.

Learners learn the word families -at, -an, -ap, and -ack. They then work with a partner to practice sorting and reading words with increased speed and accuracy.

Students investigate past energy legislation, then write letters to Congress from the perspective of citizens trying to influence the original passage of these bills. Each small group does their research using a website imbedded in this...

High schoolers discuss characteristics of various stereotypes in our society. Students practice a formal strategy for analyzing, critiquing, and rethinking print media that combines visual and text elements (especially cartoons and comics).

Students participate in a shared, choral reading to focus on fluency and comprehension. Students participate in reader's theater to perform for an audience while further improving their literacy skills.

Students identify the underlying themes and connections in a variety of narrative texts. Students relate personal memories to mythology and folktales. Students retell stories and write for a specific audience.

Students learn how to look for vowel pairs ow, ew, and aw in unknown words, recognize the common and alternative sounds for ow, ew, and aw, and use context to determine which sound works in a word. They spell and read words containing...

Pupils, brainstorming as a class, recall pivotal moments in their lives. Working together to create graphic symbols for these moments, people, and places, helps students recall the details.

Learners look for patterns in words and discover how to make new words by adding or changing the sequence of letters. Authentic literature provides an excellent framework for teaching decoding and spelling.

Students explore the initial Supreme Court decision to regulate commercial speech, and then analyze the legal precedents and principles underlying a recent case contesting this regulation.

Students further their understanding of the United Nations inspections in Iraq. They develop flow charts to organize ideas for interactive scenarios about the inspections in which the choices made determine the outcome.

Learners discuss political, social, and personal issues relating to the Civil War from various perspectives using internet sources. Students write various selections from Civil War characters' point of view.

Learners take on the role of a person, organization, or governing body with a stake in the decision of whether or not to allow U.N. inspectors into Iraq. They argue point of view to a "mock" Saddam Hussein and write a drmatic monologues as