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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   All About Our Town: Using Brochures to Teach Informational Writing
   Students explore their towns' landmarks, symbols, and people; look at brochures and other informational tools; practice writing for a specific audience and revising; and work collaboratively to create a brochure.
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  |  Unit
   Behind the Scenes With Cinderella
   Cinderella without castles, coaches, or ball gowns? Students use versions of Cinderella to explore how the setting of a story—time, place, and culture—affects the characters and plot.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Compiling Poetry Collections and a Working Definition of Poetry
   This unit introduces students to a variety of poetic forms and elements, as they compile their own collections of poetry.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Creating a Classroom Newspaper
   Students write authentic newspaper stories, including learning about various aspects of newspapers, such as writing an article, online articles, newspaper reading habits, and layout and design techniques.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Creating Classroom Community by Crafting Themed Poetry Collections
   Students create poetry collections with the theme of "getting to know each other." They study and then write a variety of forms of poetry to include in their collections.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Examining Plot Conflict through a Comparison/Contrast Essay
   Students explore picture books to identify the characteristics of four types of conflict. They then write about a conflict they have experienced and compare it to a conflict from literature.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Fairy Tales from Life
   Picture books provide the basis for an analysis of fairy tale elements before students write their own original tales.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension Using Social Studies
   Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through lesson activities that incorporate research, imagination, writing, visual arts, and drama.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 3  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Jazz Up Writing Workshop: Writing Biographies of African American Jazz Musicians
    During writing workshop, students research, write, revise, and share their own comprehensive biographies of African American jazz musicians.

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