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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Genre Study of Letters With The Jolly Postman
   Students read The Jolly Postman, in which a postman delivers letters to storybook characters. They explore different types of mail and categorize letters from the book and their own mail.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: The Elements of Fiction
   Students identify the elements of fiction in a book they have read and share summaries of them by writing and illustrating their own mini-book.
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Question and Answer Books--From Genre Study to Report Writing
   After exploring several question and answer books on a variety of topics, students research a topic and create their own class question and answer book.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Reading, Writing, Haiku Hiking! A Class Book of Picturesque Poems
   Students learn haiku
   write descriptive poems
   and share with the class.
   
6. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Setting the Stage for Creative Writing: Plot Scaffolds for Beginning and Intermediate Writers
   Want to foster creativity and originality in student writing? This practical guide shows how plot scaffolds can be used to help beginning and intermediate writers.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Slipping, Sliding, Tumbling: Reinforcing Cause and Effect Through Diamante Poems
   Writing, revising, and publishing are just a few of the tasks students will complete in order to take their cause-and-effect diamante poems from an idea to a reality.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Solving the Math Curse: Reading and Writing Math Word Problems
   Students' reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills add up as they decipher word problems and use what they've learned to solve a crossword puzzle.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 14
   Star Wars creator George Lucas was born in 1944.
   Students use the Hero's Journey interactive to describe how Luke Skywalker meets each stage of his journey, and then brainstorm other works that use the formula.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 4
    Teacher Appreciation Week honors our teachers.
    In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week, students read a book about a teacher and follow up with an activity related to the book using the Venn Diagram, Letter Generator, Story Map, or Essay Map.

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