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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Bingo! Using Environmental Print to Practice Reading
   The game Bingo is transformed in this lesson in which students use symbols and images to make connections to environmental print through the use of personalized Bingo cards.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blast Off! Vocabulary Instruction Using a Virtual Moon Trip
   3, 2, 1... Blast off! Students learn new vocabulary by taking a virtual field trip to the moon, read-alouds, creating a picture dictionary, and completing a final writing activity.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 23
   In 1564, William Shakespeare was born on this day.
   Based on grade level, students learn about rhyming structure, experiment with the Shakespearean Insult Kit, or study scenes from Othello and watch an adaptation of that scene from the movie O.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum
   Students learn about word families by reading Kevin Henkes's book Chrysanthemum, identifying words with certain vowel pair endings, and reading words with similar endings.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Text Talk: Julius, the Baby of the World
   Students are asked to "talk" with Kevin Henkes' Julius, the Baby of the World by using open-ended questions to help them interpret the language, plot, and characters of the story.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing
   A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Using Folk Tales: Vowel Influences on the Letter G
   Gentle, gigantic, graceful—do these g words describe the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk? Students will explore the hard and soft g sounds by studying fairy tales and animals.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using Greeting Cards to Motivate Students and Enhance Literacy Skills
   Imagination and illustration are the key in this lesson in which students read and create their own greeting cards.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using Songwriting to Build Awareness of Beginning Letter Sounds
   "Bessie bird lives in a barn" in this lesson in which students create alliterative animal songs to help them learn letter names and consonant sounds and build phonemic awareness.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Vocabulary With Franklin: Helping Students Become Word Wizards
    Students will be word wizards after they've completed this lesson of vocabulary and spelling games and activities.