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Guess The Genre!: Students apply knowledge of genres to identify different genres from "reading-alouds of excerpts" from selected books representing different genres.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Information Skills); By Ann Jenkins.

Local authors database: Search through more than 200 authors in 15 minutes to answer specific questions. Add records and fields to an incomplete database.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Computer/Technology Skills); By DPI Integration Strategies.

Slave narratives: A genre study: In this lesson, students will read selected excerpts from slave narratives, determining common characteristics of the genre. Students will then write their own slave narratives as a slave from their region of North Carolina, researching for historical accuracy and incorporating elements of the slave narrative genre to demonstrate understanding.; Format: lesson plan; By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.

The five features of effective writing: The five Features of Effective Writing — focus, organization, support and elaboration, style, and conventions — are a valuable tool for understanding good writing and organizing your writing instruction. By teaching these features, you can help your students become more effective writers in any genre, at any level, and make your writing instruction easier to manage at the same time. This series of articles, written with the support of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, will show you how.; Format: series (multiple pages)

Pre-writing planning guide: A graphic organizer to help students plan narrative writing. Includes space for author, audience, purpose, title, genre, time and place, narrator, point of view, plot, an illustrating image, comments, and questions.; Format: document/worksheet

Ravana tempts Sita: In The Ramayana, page 2.13; The demon king Ravana visits the captured Princess Sita in a wooden puppet theater performance at Yogyakarta in July 1986. The Ravana puppet, here painted with red skin unlike his green-skinned counterpart in Thai mural art, waves a powerful sword at Princess...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Yarns, whoppers, and tall tales: The following lessons will introduce students to characteristics of tall tales and help them develop an appreciation of this genre of American fiction. They will practice writing summaries from information they have gathered and organized. They will plan and write their own tall tales.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts); By Deborah Mitchell.

Do you really believe in magic?: Students are introduced to the genre (or mode) of Magical Realism in World Literature by reading Gabriel Garcia-Marquez's short story, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings." This lesson plan is modified for an English Language Learner (ELL) at the Intermediate Low (IL) proficiency level.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Ann Gerber and Tericia Summers.

The life and works of Edgar Allan Poe: Students will evaluate a sampling of literary selections by Edgar Allan Poe and assess the influence of Poe's life on his works.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts); By Peggy Stanley.

Learning literary elements through African and African American folktales: In this eighth grade lesson, students will apply their knowledge of literary elements (plot structure and archetypal characters) to the analysis and creation of African and African American folktales. Students will work in groups to read several picture book versions of African and African American folktales. Each group then creates a plot map for a story and highlights other literary elements identified within the text. Students then compare the folktales with fairy tales from other cultures and explain what they learned about African and African American culture from reading the folktales. Finally, students work independently to write their own modern-day folktale.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts); By Hardin Engelhardt.

Organization: In The five features of effective writing, page 3; Organization, the second Feature of Effective Writing, should be addressed after a writer has established a focus and will help strengthen that focus.; By Kathleen Cali.

Stretch it out: Good writers stretch out the important scenes in a story to make them more interesting to their readers. In this lesson, students will learn to stretch out a scene by adding things that they see, hear, think, and say to others.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

"So what?" details: Students will learn that adding details to a piece of writing doesn't make it better if the details are "So What?" details. Details and elaboration should be related to the main idea and should move the story along in an interesting manner.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Text selection: In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.3; Finding the instructional level Texts selected for running records should challenge a student sufficiently that he or she makes some errors for the student to analyze, but not enough that he or she becomes frustrated. This level is called the instructional...; By Jeanne Gunther.

Native American poetry workshop: This week-long set of lessons uses four different center activities to help students respond to poetry written by American Indians. This lesson plan was written with ESL (English as a second language) students in mind, so there are many opportunities to practice vocabulary, discuss and talk with others, and model expectations.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Liz Mahon.

Real-world approaches to reading: Techniques for providing children with the literacy-rich environment that is crucial to both reading and writing success.; By Alta Allen.

First draft/final draft: Students will compare paragraphs with and without elaboration and descriptive details. They will learn how to revise their own writing by adding descriptive details such as adjectives, adverbs, concrete nouns, and precise verbs.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Rama and Sita in wooden puppet performance of Ramayana at Yogyakarta: Rama and Sita figures converse in the foreground during a wooden puppet performance of the Ramayana at Yogyakarta in July 1986. A third puppet listens in the background at right. The faces of the wooden puppets are carefully painted, and the bodies are dressed...; Format: image/photograph

Show, don't tell: Using action words: To strengthen their writing and make it livelier, students will learn to use action words to show how their characters feel.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Wooden Hanuman puppet in Ramayana performance at Yogyakarta: A wooden Hanuman puppet used in a Ramayana performance at Yogyakarta in July 1986 wears a royal Yogyakarta-style batik cloth wrapped around its waist. Above the waist, the puppet is covered in white fuzzy cloth to represent Hanuman's monkey fur. Hanuman's...; Format: image/photograph

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