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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Recipe for Writing: Fairy Tale Feasts
   After examining recipes written based on students' favorite fairy tales, students research a recipe related to their favorite story, book, or fairy tale and include it in a classroom recipe book.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 8
   Celebrate International Literacy Day!
   Celebrate International Literacy Day by starting a literacy movement in your community.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  November 1
   Celebrate National Family Literacy Day!
   Parents, grandparents, and other family members are invited to the classroom for a family-school reading day.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Family Message Journals Teach Many Purposes for Writing
   This lesson encourages children to explore authentic reasons for writing by writing messages to their family in a family message journal.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Family Ties: Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension
   Families are all about connections between people. In this lesson, students read three books about different families and make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections to those texts.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 12
   Gary Soto, poet and children's writer, was born on this date in 1952.
   Using one of Soto's stories, students take part in share stories about their families, describe their street/neighborhood, or compose an acrostic poem using the Acrostic Poems interactive tool.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Have Journal...Will Travel: Promoting Family Involvement in Literacy
   Students build positive memories of literacy activities when they take turns taking home a book bag stuffed with items to encourage literacy interactions with their families.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 5
   In 1952, Paul Fleischman was born on this day.
   Some of Fleishman's memories in his essay "My House of Voices" are shared with the class. Students then write a descriptive essay that gives a tour of the voices in their homes, school, etc.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Involving Students and Families in Ongoing Reflection and Assessment
    Students begin by writing a sentence or two each week and progress to daily reflections and records of their school activity. Families respond to these student reflections, which become the basis for discussion among family, teacher, and students.

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