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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Generating Rhymes: Developing Phonemic Awareness
    Traditional chants and songs are adapted to help young students recognize and generate rhymes. The word and letter patterns involved in rhymes provide a stepping stone to reading skills.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Gingerbread Phonics
    "Run, run, as fast as you can." Students use this refrain from The Gingerbread Man to learn letter-sound correspondence. Students use their new skills to write an online story.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Guess What's in the Bag: A Language-based Activity
    Students play a guessing game to practice using descriptive language.
    
14. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Joyful Noises: Creating Poems for Voices and Ears
    This article discusses the efforts of a fifth-grade teacher and a visiting poet to rekindle students' sense of poetic passion and pleasure and describes how the authors introduced students to poems for two voices.
15. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Language and Literacy: The Poetry Connection
    Offers a conceptual framework for building language awareness through the reading of poetry, encouraging children to reflect on language in interesting and powerful ways. Provides an instructional model for constructing literature-based experiences in the classroom.
16. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Language Arts
    
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Note Writing in the Primary Classroom
    This lesson provides a wealth of ideas for using notes in the classroom to promote authentic writing among children.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 22
    Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846.
    Students explore the history of the Caldecott Medal and create a classroom literary award modeled after the Caldecott.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 2
    Read Across America Day: Celebrate a Nation of Diverse Readers
    Bring the celebration of reading and literacy into your classroom, library, school, and home all year long.
20. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    Reading and Writing in the Elementary Classroom: Teaching Phonics in Context
    In this Web seminar, David Hornsby and Lorraine Wilson will describe how they teach phonics as children learn to read and write in classrooms that are characterized by discovery and purposeful language use.

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