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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   All About Our Town: Using Brochures to Teach Informational Writing
   Students explore their towns' landmarks, symbols, and people; look at brochures and other informational tools; practice writing for a specific audience and revising; and work collaboratively to create a brochure.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Analyzing How Narrative Structure Generates Empathy in Wonder
   This lesson builds students' understanding of empathy by defining key terms and comparing responses to characters when they are introduced by someone else, and then when they narrate the story themselves.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   And the Question Is... Evaluating the Validity of a Survey
   In this lesson, students learn to ask the right questions about the validity of surveys.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Authentic Persuasive Writing to Promote Summer Reading
   Turn summer reading lists from a teacher-centered requirement to a student-driven exploration by asking students to create brochures and flyers that suggest books to explore during the summer months.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A World of Readers: Libraries Around the World
   Bookworms will enjoy the bytes they find in this lesson as they research and share information about online library services in places around the world.
   
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blending the Past with Today's Technology: Using Prezi to Prepare for Historical Fiction
   To prepare for literature circles featuring historical novels, students research the decades of the 1930s to the 1990s and share their information using Prezi, a web application for creating multimedia presentations.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Communicating on Local Issues: Exploring Audience in Persuasive Letter Writing
   Students will research a local issue, and then write letters to two different audiences, asking readers to take a related action or adopt a specific position on the issue.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Connect With Low-Literate Families: A Three-Tiered Approach
   Parents and caregivers take a page from the teacher's book when they listen to students' take-home poems or stories and discuss the ideas within.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
   Students publish their work in an electronic portfolio, which enables them to respond to each other's content online.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Creating Classroom Community by Crafting Themed Poetry Collections
    Students create poetry collections with the theme of "getting to know each other." They study and then write a variety of forms of poetry to include in their collections.

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