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Classroom Practices: Research on the Web
With the range of resources on the Web, choosing the best sources becomes a more challenging task for our students. NCTE's ReadWriteThink site offers a number of lessons that illustrate what research on the Web looks like in the K-12 classroom.

Classroom Practices: Publishing on the Web
The Internet offers new opportunities for publishing not yet fully imagined. Visit these sample lessons from NCTE's ReadWriteThink site to see the possibilities available to students.

Hypertext Writing Experiences
Hypertext can simply be defined as the electronic linking of text. When students are given the opportunity to deliberately link text, they gain understanding that there is more than one way to conceptualize text. This also helps students with the realization that text does not have to be linear. These lessons from ReadWriteThink provide hypertext writing experiences in the classroom.

Creating Communities to Support Readers
ReadWriteThink offers a number of lessons that help illustrate how we can create environements that support readers.

Reading and Writing Multigenre Texts
Katie Wood Ray explains in Wondrous Words: In a single text, writers may combine sections written as letters, journal entries, interview transcripts, memoirs, phone conversations, transcripts, homework assignments, encyclopedia entries, newspaper articles, refrigerator notes, poems, short stories, etc., etc. These texts read like a menagerie of writing, but together the various genres tell a single story or build a single idea. (158)

Responding to Literature in the Secondary Classroom
Responding to literature does not have to be limited to answering questions on paper. Literature response should be thought of as the reader's reaction to something that has been read or listened to. These reactions lead to deeper understandings and help the reader's make connections to their own personal experiences.

Responding to Literature in the Middle Grades
In the middle grades, students need to make personal connections to the literature they are reading, regardless is it is anthologies, drama, short stories, or novels. Once students are engaged, there are many varied ways for them to connect and respond to the literature.

Responding to Literature in the Elementary Classroom
Students tire of responding to novels in the same ways. They want new ways to think about a work of literature and new ways to dig into it. This collection of lessons provides varied ways for students to make connections to what they are reading.

K-2 Lessons to Support the Integration of Mathematics into the Language Arts Classroom
This collection of lesson plans and online resources offers to help explore ways to build bridges between mathematics and language arts in the primary classroom.

3-5 Lessons to Support the Integration of Mathematics into the Language Arts Classroom
This 3-5 collection of lesson plans and online resources offers to help explore ways to build bridges between mathematics and language arts in the intermediate classroom.

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