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1. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Activity & Project
   Amazing Biographies: Writing About People Who Change the World
   After reading about historical figures and other important people that have changed the world, children choose someone that they consider to be "amazing"—either someone they've heard about or someone they know—and create a book page that highlights this person.
2. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   2 – 6  |  Activity & Project
   Batter Up! Telling Sports Stories With Trading Cards
   Summer is the time for baseball! Through the retelling of the 1941 baseball season, children will see two legendary players as characters and can create trading cards that highlight these players.
3. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Activity & Project
   Beguiling Billboards: Finding Inspiration along the Road
   For this activity, teens study "Pass It On" billboards created by The Foundation for a Better Life either online or on-the-go, and create an original billboard and inspirational phrase for a person of their choosing.
4. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Tip & How-To
   How to Start a Writer's Notebook
   Writer's notebooks allow children and teens to take in the world around them and document their daily lives. Use these tips to learn how to start a writer's notebook with your child.
5. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   More Than Sports Stories
   Tune in to hear about works of sports fiction and nonfiction that explore issues of identity and belonging, courage and equal rights, and changes over time in American history and culture.
   
6. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   5 – 10  |  Activity & Project
   Play Ball! Read and Write Sports Trivia
   Look at different online baseball trivia questions to see how they are written. Then have children write their own questions and play a trivia game.
7. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Podcast Episode
   Take Me Out to the Ball Game
   'Tis the season...for baseball! Engage your sports fans with these books about America's favorite pastime.
8. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Activity & Project
   That Sounds Fun! Sound Words and Sports Poetry
   In this activity, children and teens use their experiences playing or watching sporting events (or other types of outdoor games) to write poems that are full of the sounds of the games.
9. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Activity & Project
   Write "Moving" Sports Poetry
   We've all heard the expression "poetry in motion"-this activity gets children writing poems about grace and movement using photos of athletes.