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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
   Children find favorite words, phrases, and sentences from familiar stories. Working together, they combine their words and phrases to create a poem. The poem is then shared as performance poetry.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Acrostic Poems: All About Me and My Favorite Things
   Students create acrostic poems using their names and the names of things that are important to them.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A is for Apple: Building Letter-Recognition Fluency
   Students apply and build their knowledge of letters and letter sounds as they play games and interact with letters online, creating their own ABC book as a final activity.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 1
   April is National Poetry Month!
   Students are assigned to be "poets of the day" and are provided several models to create, illustrate, and present their different poems to the class.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   As Slippery as an Eel: An Ocean Unit Exploring Simile and Metaphor
   Students play with simile and metaphor as they study the ocean and use figurative language to write a class book about it.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Authentic Writing Experiences and Math Problem-Solving Using Shopping Lists
   Students use their emerging writing skills to write shopping lists. They work within a budget, use problem-solving skills to create lists, and buy their favorite treats at the class store.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 6  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 21
   Barbara Park, author of the Junie B. Jones series, was born on this day.
   Students write their own "Junie B." stories, based on the Junie B. Jones series, after brainstorming issues they've experienced during the school year.
8. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Be Fabulous: The Reading Teacher's Guide to Reclaiming Your Happiness in the Classroom
   Scoggin merges her straight-talking blogger persona, Mrs. Mimi, with her years of research to help you rediscover who you are and redefine the type of literacy teacher you want to become. At the heart of this book is teacher happiness and empowerment—reconnect with your inner fabulous to give the best possible literacy instruction to your students.
9. 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.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 9  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 20
    Celebrate author Mary Hoffman's birthday today.
    Students write original picture books based on their own aspirations and dreams and share with the class or with younger students.

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