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11. 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.
12. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Activity & Project
    Books Will Take You There!
    While enjoying a book that features a journey, children write postcards from the perspective of the main character for each stop along the trip.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 8
    Celebrate International Literacy Day!
    Celebrate International Literacy Day by starting a literacy movement in your community.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  November 1
    Celebrate National Family Literacy Day!
    Parents, grandparents, and other family members are invited to the classroom for a family-school reading day.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 11
    Children's author Patricia Polacco was born in 1944.
    Students share family stories of their own by writing original poems and reviewing parts of speech using the Diamante Poems tool.
16. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Conducting Inner-Outer Circle Discussions
    This guide shares the steps to take to get more students talking by dividing the group into speaking and non-speaking circles.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Printout  |  Graphic Organizer
    Connection Web
    Students use this printout to expand on connections they have made to a text and use those details to write essays or create projects about the text.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 23
    Diarist Samuel Pepys was born.
    Students write diary entries and revisit the entries as if it were a hundred years from now. Students then brainstorm and write paragraphs about life in the 21st century.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Printout  |  Graphic Organizer
    Double-Entry Journal
    This printout helps students record ideas and situations from texts in one column, and their reactions in the second, thus making a connection between the text and themselves, another text, or the world.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 28
    Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine, was born in 1914.
    After learning about Dr. Salk, students interview a family member or someone they know who remembers the polio epidemic.

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