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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
   Building a Learning Community: Crafting Rules for the Classroom
   Students will learn to mind their ps and qs in this lesson on etiquette and appropriate behavior in the classroom.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Charlotte is Wise, Patient, and Caring: Adjectives and Character Traits
   Students find examples of adjectives in a shared reading. Then students "become" major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using powerful adjectives.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Dancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry
   Students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems and then brainstorm nouns and verbs to create personification in their own poems.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Inferring How and Why Characters Change
   Students will really get into character when they read short stories and analyze the how's and why's of characters' behaviors.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Is Superman Really All That Super? Critically Exploring Superheroes
   What makes a superhero super? By comparing popular culture superheroes with heroic characters in children's literature, students learn to think critically about character traits, and consider how cultural perspectives influence the kinds of heroes we choose.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Our Classroom: Writing an Owner's Manual
   Students write an owner's manual that helps them get to know their classroom, provides them with a sense of ownership, and lets others know about their classroom.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Skimming and Scanning: Using Riddles to Practice Fact Finding Online
   Students will learn to skim and scan to make sure they don't flounder when they're surfing the Internet for facts to help them complete riddles about the United States.
   
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using Prediction as a Prereading Strategy
   Students learn about and apply the prediction strategy while reading a trade book. They use response journals to record questions and responses based on prereading predictions.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    What's in a Mystery? Exploring and Identifying Mystery Elements
    Students identify the characteristics of mystery writing, outline a mystery story using a graphic organizer, write and revise their own mystery story, edit each other's work, and share their mysteries.