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2008 April Classroom Notes Plus, v25.4
The April 2008 issue of Classroom Notes Plus includes a lesson on prefixes and word study sparked by comic books, ideas for getting teens reading more, and an activity for enriching study of Dickens's Great Expectations.

2008 January Classroom Notes Plus, v25.3
This Classroom Notes Plus issue presents an innovative expansion on I-Search, a lesson on storytelling through photographs, and tips for managing your grading load.

2007 October Classroom Notes Plus, v25.2
This issue of Classroom Notes Plus presents a project centered on viewing and analyzing photos and movie clips and composing short multimedia presentations.

2007 August Classroom Notes Plus, v25.1
This issue of Classroom Notes Plus offers a variety of activities for using an innovative graphic organizer called the Foldable for authentic learning, plus an approach that helps students identify their learning styles to nurture thinking and writing.

2007 April Classroom Notes Plus, v24.4
The playful poetry activities in this issue draw on students' life experiences and can be effective with students at a variety of ability levels, including English language learners.

2007 January Classroom Notes Plus, v24.3
This issue of Classroom Notes Plus provides two extended units involving reading, writing, and speaking activities that have worked with English language learners. The first unit centers on poetry, the second on research and technology, and both include a variety of strategies for engaging students in authentic learning.

2006 October Classroom Notes Plus, v24.2
Strategies in this issue of Classroom Notes Plus focus on responding to texts, planning and conducting interviews, understanding those with different lives and histories, using double-entry journals to help students�especially English language learners�to talk about what they've read, and developing written messages for different audiences.

2006 August Classroom Notes Plus, v24.1
This issue of Classroom Notes Plus includes strategies that help students approach and understand texts. Students create glossaries from their reading, write alternate story endings, collect and explain common items that represent story elements (a helpful scaffolding activity for struggling students and English language learners), create book reports that cross disciplines, and reconstruct texts to improve comprehension skills.

2006 April Classroom Notes Plus, v23.4
This issue of Classroom Notes Plus includes teaching strategies on literature, grammar, writing, and poetry. Students debate The Scarlet Letter as characters, expand their view of texts through exploration of popular culture, ask and answer questions about grammar, talk and write about their connectedness with others, and take notes on favorite poems with a class poetry survey.

2006 January Classroom Notes Plus, v23.3
This issue of Classroom Notes Plus includes teaching strategies on literature and writing, with specific lessons centering on Shakespeare's sonnets, To Kill a Mockingbird, writer's workshop, and an imaginative assessment tool. Special features include an in-depth framework for teaching Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and a Teacher's Guide to Teaching Racially Sensitive Literature.

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