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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Animal Study: From Fiction to Facts
   Students listen to fiction and nonfiction read-alouds and explore selected Websites to identify factual information about animals. This lesson focuses on ants, but can be adapted to any animal.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Combining Read-Alouds With Economics in the Primary Grades
   Students learn that what you read in books can really add up when they analyze literary texts for economic concepts.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Digging Up Details on Worms: Using the Language of Science in an Inquiry Study
   This lesson, in which students research worms in order to create a classroom habitat, incorporates reading and writing across content areas as well as math and science activities.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories
   Students gather factual information about frogs and toads to create nonfiction and fiction stories. Drawing is used for prewriting.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Investigating Animals: Using Nonfiction for Inquiry-based Research
   Inspired by their curiosity about animals, students work together to research an animal of their choice and present the information they gather to an authentic audience.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Predicting and Gathering Information With Nonfiction Texts
   Students take a walk on the wild side when they develop an understanding of nonfiction texts with hands-on experiences and intense analysis.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction
   Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.