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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Multimedia Responses to Content Area Topics Using Fact-"Faction"-Fiction
    Students climb into the mind of a spider in this lesson that asks them to compose a spider diary using spider facts, fiction, and "faction"—fiction that sounds like fact.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Nature Reflections: Interactive Language Practice for English-Language Learners
    Students whose first language is not English reflect on nature through readings, a visit to a green area, and bookmaking using the writing process and peer feedback.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Reading and Writing About Pollution to Understand Cause and Effect
    Students get to write a whale of a tale when they complete a graphic organizer sequencing the journey of a mountain fish to a polluted waterway.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Teaching Science Through Picture Books: A Rainforest Lesson
    Students read Welcome to the Green House, use note-taking strategies, find patterns in text structure, learn vocabulary in context, and write efferent and affective responses to the text.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using Science Texts to Teach the Organizational Features of Nonfiction
    Students explore organizational features of nonfiction science. Students then work together to create a two-page spread using those features to present information about their local environment.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using Tiered Companion Texts to Comprehend Complex Nonfiction Texts
    Students progress through increasingly difficult tiered texts to gain the necessary background knowledge and problem-solving skills to comprehend complex nonfiction texts.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Weather Detectives: Questioning the Fact and Folklore of Weather Sayings
    Students adopt a skeptical stance and become weather detectives who ask "Why?" and "Why not?" as they investigate the history and validity of some common weather sayings.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Webcams in the Classroom: Animal Inquiry and Observation
    Students observe animals using one of the many webcams broadcasting from zoos and aquariums around the United States and the world, with a focus on observation, discussion, questioning, and research.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    What's Under the Slide? Making Inferences Using Microscopes
    Students hone their critical thinking skills by learning how to make inferences from textual clues.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Writing Acrostic Poems with Thematically Related Texts in the Content Areas
    Students read thematically related texts, scaffolded from simple to complex, to help them gather necessary concept vocabulary and background knowledge in a content area. They then write acrostic poems to organize and present their learning in a creative way.

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