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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   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
   In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 14
   Ernest Thayer, author of the famous poem "Casey at the Bat," was born in 1863.
   In small groups or individually, students make baseball cards for the players in the poem "Casey at the Bat." Students can use a word processor or the Character Trading Cards interactive to create their cards.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading Strategy
   History takes on new dimensions in this interactive multimedia lesson that emphasizes the B-D-A approach to research as students investigate the experiences of people with disabilities since the early 1800s.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Guided Comprehension: Previewing Using an Anticipation Guide
   Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of previewing.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 31
   Jackie Robinson was born on this day in 1919.
   Students read messages sent to the White House from Jackie Robinson and discuss his role as an athlete and a civil rights activist, as well as the role of athletes in society.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  November 6
   James Naismith, inventor of the game of basketball, was born in 1861.
   Students look at Naismith's original 13 rules for basketball and write about the rules and how they have changed in small groups.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Swish! Pow! Whack! Teaching Onomatopoeia Through Sports Poetry
   Students explore poetry about sports, looking closely at the use of onomatopoeia. After viewing a segment of a sporting event, students create their own onomatopoeic sports poems.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 6
   The first woman swam the English Channel in 1926.
   Students brainstorm a list of famous athletic competitors and establish criteria for what makes an athlete "famous." Students then forecast which of today's athletes will still be remembered in 75 to 100 years.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Mobile App  |  Writing Poetry
    Theme Poems
    Users learn about and write theme poems, a poem written within the shape of the subject of the poem.

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