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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Race With Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion
   In this lesson, athletics, aesthetics, and poetics intersect in new ways as developing literacy learners experiment together with the forms of language.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 22
   Celebrate the 100th day of school!
   As a class, students work in small groups to create a "100th Day" book.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring World Cultures Through Folk Tales
   Journey around the world with students as they read a Japanese, African, or Welsh folk tale, create a visual depiction of the tale, research the tale's culture, and present findings.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 24
   Gold was discovered in California in 1848.
   Students read letters from the Gold Rush and follow up by writing an imaginary letter to a family member about their experience using the Letter Generator.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Once Upon a Link: A PowerPoint Adventure With Fractured Fairy Tales
   What really happened to the three little pigs? Students will read and write fractured fairy tales. In composing and editing these tales, students focus on the six traits of writing.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 20
   On this day in 1910, animal rights activist Joy Adamson was born.
   A KWL chart is used to organize information about lions. Persuasive letters are written lobbying for programs and resources to protect these animals.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Scaffolding Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic Organizers
   Students learn collaborative strategic reading (CSR). During and after reading, students apply four reading strategies—preview, click and clunk, get the gist, and wrap-up—and use graphic organizers for scaffolding.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 28
   The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986.
   Students interview a parent or another adult about the Challenger and hypothesize about differences. Students can also write about the Columbia disaster in 2003.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Write-Talks: Students Discovering Real Writers, Real Audiences, Real Purposes
   There's a world of writers out there, and in this lesson students discover them as they listen to presentations from local writers and learn about what, why, and how they write in their day-to-day lives.