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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 10  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 19
   Author Eve Bunting was born in Ireland in 1928.
   Students listen to a news article about the LA race riots and then read Smoky Night to discuss how a younger observer might be affected by these events and their perceptions.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Author Study: Improving Reading Comprehension Using Inference and Comparison
   "Reading between the lines" can be as crucial to comprehension as understanding the words on the page. Through guided author studies, students experience the benefits and the limitations of inference.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Book Clubs: Reading for Fun
   This lesson describes how small groups of students can plan meetings to discuss what they've read in a "just for fun" book club they've organized—and that they control.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 3
   Dr. Christian Barnard performed the first human heart transplant.
   Students talk about the causes of heart disease and the role that diet and exercise play. Then, students find healthy dessert recipes and vote on one dessert to make in class.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Figurative Language: Teaching Idioms
   It's raining cats and dogs! Students explore figurative language through read-alouds, teacher modeling, and student-centered activities, further developing their understanding of the literal versus the metaphorical translations of idioms.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Identifying and Classifying Verbs in Context
   The interactive read-aloud in this lesson helps students to identify and classify the three verb types—action, state-of-being or linking, and helping verbs.
7. Professional Development | Grades   K – 3  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Informational Text in K-3 Classrooms: Helping Children Read and Write
   Learn how to integrate informational text into early reading instruction.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 21
   It's Winter in the Northern Hemisphere!
   Students brainstorm words or images that they associate with winter, select and read a picture book about winter, and compare the two using the interactive Venn Diagram.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Multipurpose Poetry: Introducing Science Concepts and Increasing Fluency
   Creepy crawlers, hoppers, and fliers are the focus of this lesson in which students chorally read poems about insects and use the Internet to locate facts about their assigned insects.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Peer Edit With Perfection: Effective Strategies
    Students take a fresh look at the revision process and help one another polish their written work through a peer-editing strategy that is simple, systematic, and constructive.

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