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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Applying Question-Answer Relationships to Pictures
   A picture is worth a thousand words as students are guided in viewing wordless picture books and responding to four different types of questions about the images they see.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Race With Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion
   In this lesson, athletics, aesthetics, and poetics intersect in new ways as developing literacy learners experiment together with the forms of language.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   BioBags: Linking Literature and Life
   Students create BioBags, a collection of texts that mark special times in their lives. BioBags provide a way for students to share a variety of events and texts.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Descriptive Video: Using Media Technology to Enhance Writing
   Students will have a roaring good time when they watch a scene from The Lion King as a way to compare standard and described programming media.
   
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Compare and Contrast Structure in Expository Texts
   Students build their understanding of the terms compare and contrast by participating in class discussions, using Internet resources, working collaboratively, and by visually representing information in a Venn diagram.
6. 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.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   QARs + Tables = Successful Comprehension of Math Word Problems
   Using census data for an example, students use the question-answer relationship (QAR) strategy to understand and solve word problems that refer to tables and other graphics.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Sharing Favorite Books Using Interactive Character Trading Cards
   Using selected characters from a text of their choice, students put their literary analysis skills to work by creating fictional character trading cards.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Solving the Math Curse: Reading and Writing Math Word Problems
   Students' reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills add up as they decipher word problems and use what they've learned to solve a crossword puzzle.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
    "2-4-6-8, students will be spelling great" in this lesson that teaches the y rule for adding suffixes through cheering the spelling of words aloud, word sorts, and writing stories.

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