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1. Classroom Resources | Grade   1  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Awareness of Alliteration: Enhancing Writing Through Mentor Texts
   Through this lesson, primary students strengthen their phonemic awareness while using picture books featuring alliteration as models for their own writing.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blogging in the Primary Grades? Yes, Indeed!
   Give students an authentic reason to read and write by researching blogs written by their peers around the world and then writing their own.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Completing the Circle: The Craft of Circular Plot Structure
   Students identify, explore and apply the elements of circle plot structures to their own stories by using graphic organizers, reading and writing stories, and using checklists to assess their work.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Designing Elements of Story in Little Blue and Little Yellow
   In this series of four lessons, students will explore key elements of design in Little Blue and
   Little Yellow to learn about setting, character relationships, and plot.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 4  |  Lesson Plan
   Engaging With Cause-and-Effect Relationships Through Creating Comic Strips
   Students demonstrate their knowledge of cause-and-effect relationships by creating original comic strips and sharing their completed work in an oral presentation format.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories
   Students gather factual information about frogs and toads to create nonfiction and fiction stories. Drawing is used for prewriting.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Teaching About Story Structure Using Fairy Tales
   From "once upon a time" to "happily ever after," students learn to recognize story structure in fairy tales and create a logical sequence of events when writing original stories.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Teaching Audience Through Interactive Writing
   Through interactive writing, students work together and then independently to create invitation letters for a group of their peers and their families.