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Blast Off! Vocabulary Instruction Using a Virtual Moon Trip
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3, 2, 1... Blast off! Students learn new vocabulary by taking a virtual field trip to the moon, read-alouds, creating a picture dictionary, and completing a final writing activity.

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English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
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09/28/2013
Blending Fiction and Nonfiction to Improve Comprehension and Writing Skills
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Students use a text set to increase understanding of content area material and demonstrate what they have learned by writing an original piece that blends together narrative and expository elements.

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09/28/2013
Blending the Past with Today's Technology: Using Prezi to Prepare for Historical Fiction
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To prepare for literature circles featuring historical novels, students research the decades of the 1930s to the 1990s and share their information using Prezi, a web application for creating multimedia presentations.

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09/28/2013
Blogging With Photovoice: Sharing Pictures in an Integrated Classroom
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Make the most of your students' diverse ability levels and experience with a prewriting activity in which they describe an abstract idea using blogging and photographs that they have taken.

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09/28/2013
Blurring Genre: Exploring Fiction and Nonfiction with "Diary of a Worm"
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After reading several examples of how a published author incorporates facts in fiction writing, students research a topic of their choice and write fictional diary entries that incorporate factual information.

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Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Reading Informational Text
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09/28/2013
Book Cover Creator
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The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.

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Arts and Humanities
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08/19/2013
Book Report Alternative: A Character's Letter to the Editor
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Students write a persuasive letter to the editor of a newspaper from a selected fictional character's perspective, focusing on a specific issue or situation explored in the novel.

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09/28/2013
Book Report Alternative: Characters for Hire! Studying Character in Drama
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In this alternative to the traditional book report, students respond to a play they have read by creating a resume for one of its characters.

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09/28/2013
Book Report Alternative: Creating Reading Excitement with Book Trailers
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In this alternative to the traditional book report, students create book trailers using Microsoft Photo Story 3, a free downloadable software program for digital storytelling.

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09/28/2013
Book Report Alternative: Creating a Childhood for a Character
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Students explore familiar literary characters, usually first encountered as adults, but whose childhood stories are only told later. Students then create childhoods for adult characters from books of their choice.

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09/28/2013
Book Report Alternative: Examining Story Elements Using Story Map Comic Strips
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Comic frames are traditionally used to illustrate a story in a short, concise format. In this lesson, students use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they've read. Each panel retells a particular detail or explains a literary element (such as setting or character) from the story.

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09/28/2013
Book Report Alternative: Glog That Book!
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In this alternative book report, students identify the elements of fiction in books they have read by creating glogs, interactive multimedia posters, and then share their glogs.

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