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1. 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.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Improving Fluency through Group Literary Performance
   Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum
   Students learn about word families by reading Kevin Henkes's book Chrysanthemum, identifying words with certain vowel pair endings, and reading words with similar endings.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 2
   Read Across America Day: Celebrate a Nation of Diverse Readers
   Bring the celebration of reading and literacy into your classroom, library, school, and home all year long.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Text Talk: Julius, the Baby of the World
   Students are asked to "talk" with Kevin Henkes' Julius, the Baby of the World by using open-ended questions to help them interpret the language, plot, and characters of the story.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing
   A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Using Folk Tales: Vowel Influences on the Letter G
   Gentle, gigantic, graceful—do these g words describe the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk? Students will explore the hard and soft g sounds by studying fairy tales and animals.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using Songwriting to Build Awareness of Beginning Letter Sounds
   "Bessie bird lives in a barn" in this lesson in which students create alliterative animal songs to help them learn letter names and consonant sounds and build phonemic awareness.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  November 20
   Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein was published in 1974.
   Students are introduced to a Silverstein verse and asked for their impressions. They then draw that they imagine when they read one of his lines and then write a line or two to continue the passage.