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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  |  Standard Lesson
   Casting Shadows Across Literacy and Science
   Shadows, shadows, everywhere! In this lesson, students read fiction, informational text, and poetry about shadows to extend their knowledge of the concept before casting their own shadow poetry.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating a Class Pattern Book With Popular Culture Characters
   Students hit the hallways with their favorite pop culture characters in this lesson to photograph the characters in various situations and then write about the pictures in a pattern-book structure.
   
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Shared Poetry Reading: Teaching Print Concepts, Rhyme, and Vocabulary
   The rhyme and reason behind this lesson is that students will need to develop important reading skills to increase their reading fluency.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
   "2-4-6-8, students will be spelling great" in this lesson that teaches the y rule for adding suffixes through cheering the spelling of words aloud, word sorts, and writing stories.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Text Talk: Julius, the Baby of the World
   Students are asked to "talk" with Kevin Henkes' Julius, the Baby of the World by using open-ended questions to help them interpret the language, plot, and characters of the story.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 3
   United States Congress officially adopted the position of Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry in 1985.
   Students investigate the website of a past Poet Laureate's project and use it as a model to celebrate poetry that appeals most to them.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes
   Whether you sing or recite familiar nursery rhymes in this standard lesson, students will learn how to create and categorize words that have similar endings.