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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Action ABC's: Learning Vocabulary With Verbs
   Creating an illustrated alphabet book of action words, from attack to zap, reinforces the definition of verbs as it stretches and expands students' vocabulary.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Everyone Loves a Mystery: A Genre Study
   Students track the elements of mystery stories through Directed Learning-Thinking Activities, story maps, and puzzles. Then they offer clues for other readers as they plan and write original mystery stories.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words through Diamante Poetry
   Students explore the ways that powerful and passionate words communicate the concepts of freedom, justice, discrimination, and the American Dream in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
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   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   How Big Are Martin's Big Words? Thinking Big about the Future
   Inspired by the book Martin's Big Words, students explore information on Dr. King to think about his "big" words, then they write about their own "big" words and dreams.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Improve Comprehension: A Word Game Using Root Words and Affixes
   Students study common root words and affixes, improve their comprehension and spelling, and make a card game in which they form words with a prefix, root word, and suffix.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Pictures Tell the Story: Improving Comprehension With Persepolis
   Students get the big picture of the Middle East when they read and analyze Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Comic Book Show and Tell
   Students craft comic scripts using clear, descriptive, and detailed writing that shows (illustrates) and tells (directs). After peers create an artistic interpretation of the script, students revise their original scripts.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Theme Poems: Writing Extraordinary Poems About Ordinary Objects
    Students select a familiar object online, build a bank of words related to the object, and write theme poems that are printed and displayed in class.

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