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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Sorting: Using Observation and Comprehension to Categorize Books
   Students utilize their reading and writing skills as they think critically in order to sort books in multiple ways.
   
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 4
   Celebrate National Children's Book Week!
   Children show support for their favorite Children's Choice Book award finalist by designing a promotional book cover.
3. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Connecting with Intention
   Join Franki Sibberson and Bill Bass, authors of Digital Reading: What's Essential in Grades 3-8, to explore how these connections can change the way that students interact with their ideas and each other.
4. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning
   This book helps educators unlock Internet and digital media resources to classrooms while respecting the rights of copyright holders.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Draw a Math Story: From the Concrete to the Symbolic
   Students create math stories by first drawing, then writing, and finally using math symbols to show addition or subtraction.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Family Ties: Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension
   Families are all about connections between people. In this lesson, students read three books about different families and make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections to those texts.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Giant Story Problems: Reading Comprehension through Math Problem-Solving
   Students create posters using images, text, and mathematical equations to represent a story problem.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 1
   May is Get Caught Reading Month!
   Students celebrate Get Caught Reading Month by doing a reading-related service project such as planning an intergenerational reading day or organizing a book drive.
9. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
   New Literacies and 21st-Century Technologies
   IRA's position on recognizing an expanded conception of literacy and supporting learners as they use and interact with information and communication technologies.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading
    Teach your students about sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts using a weekly poem.

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