Look around for: Quotes, novels, novellas, short stories, poems, song lyrics, paintings, cartoons, historic events, current events, news articles, biographies, diaries, memoirs, ship logs, newspaper clippings, jokes, statistics, list of facts and website they came from, picture books, real-life pictures, playing a game, live visit from guest speakers, book trailers, movie clips, personal stories, reader’sContinue reading “What are other ideas I can use to start a lesson set? Ideas to motivate students to read the novel or paired texts unit you are planning.”