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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  |  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).
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Choosing, Chatting, and Collecting: Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy
   Students identify interesting words from Shakespeare's plays and add them to a classroom vocabulary collection.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Literacy Centers: Getting Started
   This lesson gives teachers resources and guidance to create reading, listening, computer, and poetry Literacy Centers in their own classrooms.
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   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Talking About Books to Improve Comprehension
   This lesson is a conversation-starter! In this lesson, students learn about striking up deep-thought conversations and staying on topic in the form of a book talk.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Tell Me Your Story: Video-Inspired Vocabulary Writing
   Students watch a sample of artistic video clips online and respond through creative writing while using the vocabulary words they are currently studying.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Weekend News! A Weekly Writing Activity
   On Monday mornings, you're likely to be asked, "What did you do this weekend?" In this lesson, students respond to this question in a self-assessed writing assignment about their weekend adventures.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Write-Talks: Students Discovering Real Writers, Real Audiences, Real Purposes
    There's a world of writers out there, and in this lesson students discover them as they listen to presentations from local writers and learn about what, why, and how they write in their day-to-day lives.