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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   A Journal for Corduroy: Responding to Literature
   Connect home and school, literature and life, as students take a storybook character home with them and take turns writing stories about his visit.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Bingo! Using Environmental Print to Practice Reading
   The game Bingo is transformed in this lesson in which students use symbols and images to make connections to environmental print through the use of personalized Bingo cards.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Bringing Economic Vocabulary to Life Through Video Posters
   Imagine if vocabulary could come alive with the click of a button! Students create video posters to demonstrate knowledge of new economics vocabulary.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Building a Matrix for Leo Lionni Books: An Author Study
   In this author study, students listen to and discuss four books by Leo Lionni. They identify similarities and differences in the stories and then compare two stories of their choice.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Building Phonemic Awareness With Phoneme Isolation
   Students improve phonemic awareness through games and chants that help them isolate beginning and ending sounds and connect them with their written symbols (graphemes).
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Casting Shadows Across Literacy and Science
   Shadows, shadows, everywhere! In this lesson, students read fiction, informational text, and poetry about shadows to extend their knowledge of the concept before casting their own shadow poetry.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Connect With Low-Literate Families: A Three-Tiered Approach
   Parents and caregivers take a page from the teacher's book when they listen to students' take-home poems or stories and discuss the ideas within.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating a Class Pattern Book With Popular Culture Characters
   Students hit the hallways with their favorite pop culture characters in this lesson to photograph the characters in various situations and then write about the pictures in a pattern-book structure.
   
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring the Subtext Strategy: Thinking Beyond the Text
   What is it like to have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day? Students find out in this lesson in which they "become" the characters in Judith Viorst's book.
10. 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.

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