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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    A Schema-Building Study With Patricia Polacco
    Students use the Semantic Impressions and Possible Sentences strategies to write about Patricia Polacco's books Chicken Sunday and Rechenka's Egg, complete a character study, and write using a WebQuest.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
    Students engage in a brief writing assignment that concretely illustrates how language and gender stereotyping interact causally.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
    Students "become" one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using lists of accurate, powerful adjectives.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Bingo! Using Environmental Print to Practice Reading
    The game Bingo is transformed in this lesson in which students use symbols and images to make connections to environmental print through the use of personalized Bingo cards.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Blast Off! Vocabulary Instruction Using a Virtual Moon Trip
    3, 2, 1... Blast off! Students learn new vocabulary by taking a virtual field trip to the moon, read-alouds, creating a picture dictionary, and completing a final writing activity.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English Dictionary
    Students become novice lexicographers as they explore recent new entries to the dictionary, learn the process of writing entries for the Oxford English Dictionary, and write a new entry themselves.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Building Classroom Community Through the Exploration of Acrostic Poetry
    What do your students think about each other? Find out as you teach them the concepts of acrostic poems and challenge them to write an uplifting acrostic about a classmate.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Building Vocabulary: Making Multigenre Glossaries Based on Student Inquiry
    Students choose unfamiliar words from their reading and create a multigenre, multimodal glossary of terms.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Buzz! Whiz! Bang! Using Comic Books to Teach Onomatopoeia
    This lesson is sure to sizzle, not fizzle, as students use comic strips to find onomatopoetic words, develop a vocabulary list from the words, and discuss why writers use onomatopoeia.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Charlotte is Wise, Patient, and Caring: Adjectives and Character Traits
    Students find examples of adjectives in a shared reading. Then students "become" major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using powerful adjectives.

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