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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
   This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They choose important quotations from the text and work in groups to formulate "quiz" questions that their peers will answer.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Demonstrating Comprehension Through Journal Writing
   Students demonstrate comprehension by responding to open-ended questions based on the Newbery Honor book Mr. Popper's Penguins, and then draw from the text and their personal experiences to create journals.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Learning Centers: From Shared to Independent Practice
   Seven blind mice—see how they spend each day of the week in this lesson that uses the book Seven Blind Mice to guide students through shared reading, writing, and listening activities.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Literature Response in Primary Classrooms
   This step-by-step literature response template for use with read-alouds asks students to use drawing and writing to respond to increasingly-complex prompts which address literary elements as well as personal connections.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Living the Dream: 100 Acts of Kindness
   This lesson provides the "action piece" for any study of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In this project, students participate in Dr. King's dream by doing 100 acts of kindness.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Note Writing in the Primary Classroom
   This lesson provides a wealth of ideas for using notes in the classroom to promote authentic writing among children.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Shared Experiences, Individual Impressions: Buddies Create PowerPoint Stories
   Stories and snapshots of school-related experiences are the perfect sources of inspiration for students as they create PowerPoint presentations with the help of an older student.
   
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Shared Spelling Strategies
    Students increase their spelling accuracy and retention, while preserving fluency, by using sound, sight recall, and analyzing strategies instead of memorizing words, as they deal with spelling during drafting.

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