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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Race With Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion
   In this lesson, athletics, aesthetics, and poetics intersect in new ways as developing literacy learners experiment together with the forms of language.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
   Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.
   
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring World Cultures Through Folk Tales
   Journey around the world with students as they read a Japanese, African, or Welsh folk tale, create a visual depiction of the tale, research the tale's culture, and present findings.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Improving Fluency through Group Literary Performance
   Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   I've Got the Literacy Blues
   Students will be singing the blues in this lesson in which they identify themes from "The Gift of the Magi" and write and present blues poetry based on those themes.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Rain, Ice, Steam: Using Reading to Support Inquiry About the Water Cycle
   Water is always moving in a continuous cycle from liquid to solid to gas and back again. Students study this never-ending cycle through shared readings, center activities, and experiments.
8. 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.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Peace Journey: Using Process Drama in the Classroom
   What does peace mean to you? In this lesson, students attempt to answer this question as they write and perform a short skit that reflects their ideas of peace.
   
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Solution Square: Strategies for Conflict Resolution
    Students will square up a conflict and learn how to effectively resolve any issues using a Solution Square.

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