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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
   In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 31
   Celebrate Halloween!
   Students research information on Halloween, create masks or costumes from a text they are reading, or write a narrative essay describing their best Halloween ever.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 19
   Celebrate Juneteenth!
   Students use the Venn Diagram to compare Juneteenth celebrations to Fourth of July celebrations and hypothesize about the differences.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  November 1
   Celebrate National Family Literacy Day!
   Parents, grandparents, and other family members are invited to the classroom for a family-school reading day.
5. 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.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 20
   Celebrate the National Day on Writing!
   Students examine the different ways that they write and think about the role writing plays in life.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 2
   Groundhog Day is February 2.
   A celebration is held for Groundhog day where students engage in a shadow-watching activity, make predictions, and listen to news reports to compare what happens with Punxsutawney Phil.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Mobile App  |  Writing Poetry
   Haiku Poem App
   Students can learn about and write haiku using this app that guides them through the writing process.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 15
   Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
   Students brainstorm all the various aspects of Hispanic culture and compile topics to research. Groups then research topics and present their information to the class.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    How Big Are Martin's Big Words? Thinking Big about the Future
    Inspired by the book Martin's Big Words, students explore information on Dr. King to think about his "big" words, then they write about their own "big" words and dreams.

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