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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 19
   Celebrate National Library Week!
   Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm
   Students often believe that fiction writers make everything up, seldom realizing how research worms its way into entertaining writing. In this lesson, students read Diary of a Worm to find out how fact merges with fiction.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Inspire Healthful Reading Using Unconventional Texts
   This minilesson encourages children to seek out and appropriately react to nutrition labels and to make healthy food choices, integrating science, math, health, and literacy.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Let's Build a Snowman
   In this lesson, students use both fiction and nonfiction texts, the Internet, and a K-W-L chart to learn about how animals survive the winter.
5. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Activity & Project
   School Day Extension
   Use the Word Mover mobile app to bring school home! A printout from school is used to generate a word bank and then create story or poem, which a child uses to "teach" a concept to a family member or caregiver.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Shared Experiences, Individual Impressions: Buddies Create PowerPoint Stories
   Stories and snapshots of school-related experiences are the perfect sources of inspiration for students as they create PowerPoint presentations with the help of an older student.
   
7. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Teaching Synthesis with Interactive Read-Alouds of Informational Texts
   In this Web seminar, we will discuss how to explicitly introduce synthesis of nonfiction texts as well as how to plan for reading aloud a text so as to promote understanding of the author's central ideas.
8. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Strategy Guide
   Using Paired Reading to Increase Fluency and Peer Cooperation
   In this strategy, students read aloud to each other, pairing more fluent readers with less fluent readers. This strategy can also be used to pair older students with younger students to create "reading buddies."
9. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
   In this strategy guide, you will learn how to organize students and classroom topics to encourage a high degree of classroom participation and assist students in developing a conceptual understanding of a topic through the use of the Think-Pair-Share technique.
   
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Weekend News! A Weekly Writing Activity
    On Monday mornings, you're likely to be asked, "What did you do this weekend?" In this lesson, students respond to this question in a self-assessed writing assignment about their weekend adventures.

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