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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   All About Alliteration: Responding to Literature Through a Poetry Link
   Studied students stupefy! Students learn about alliteration by listening to an alliterative read-aloud and apply the knowledge they gain to the creation of their own poem and illustration.
2. Professional Development | Grade   K  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Building a Foundation for Preschool Literacy: Effective Instruction for Children's Reading and Writing Development (Second Edition)
   This book focuses on best practices for providing preschoolers with early literacy instruction.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Building Phonemic Awareness With Phoneme Isolation
   Students improve phonemic awareness through games and chants that help them isolate beginning and ending sounds and connect them with their written symbols (graphemes).
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Choosing, Chatting, and Collecting: Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy
   Students identify interesting words from Shakespeare's plays and add them to a classroom vocabulary collection.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Choosing Clear and Varied Dialogue Tags: A Minilesson
   In this minilesson, students explore the use of dialogue tags such as "he said" or "she answered" in picture books and novels, discussing their purpose, form, and style.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Descriptive Video: Using Media Technology to Enhance Writing
   Students will have a roaring good time when they watch a scene from The Lion King as a way to compare standard and described programming media.
   
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Developing Inferential Comprehension Through DL-TA and Discussion Webs
   Students will love unwrapping this lesson about before, during, and after reading activities based on Margaree King Mitchell's book, Grandaddy's Gift.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Gingerbread Phonics
   "Run, run, as fast as you can." Students use this refrain from The Gingerbread Man to learn letter-sound correspondence. Students use their new skills to write an online story.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Guess What's in the Bag: A Language-based Activity
   Students play a guessing game to practice using descriptive language.
   
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 1
    Music in Our Schools Month is in March.
    Students explore the effects of music on a story by reading a story, novel, or play, viewing the musical version, and comparing the two. Students can then select a text read in class and create a musical adaptation.

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