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21. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 10  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 15
    Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall series, was born in 1939.
    After students have read one of Brian Jacques' Redwall stories, a class newspaper is created based on the story.
22. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
    Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.
23. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel
    This collection of essays by classroom teachers demonstrates how to pair graphic novels with classic literature (including both canonical and YA lit).
24. 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.
25. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 25
    Caldecott-winning illustrator Lane Smith was born in 1959.
    Students discuss some of the ways in which illustrations can enhance a story and then become illustrators, using a variety of media.
26. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Campaigning for Fair Use: Public Service Announcements on Copyright Awareness
    Students explore a range of resources on fair use and copyright then design their own audio public service announcements (PSAs), to be broadcast over the school's public address system.
27. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Captioning the Civil Rights Movement: Reading the Images, Writing the Words
    Teachers guide students to carefully view images from the Civil Rights Movement and write captions that accurately describe the images and/or their probable purposes.
28. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
    CD/DVD Cover Creator
    The CD/DVD Cover Creator allows users to type and illustrate CD and DVD covers and related booklets for liner notes and other information. Students can use the tool to create covers for books, music, and films that they explored as well as to create covers for media they compose individually or as a class.
29. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 8
    Celebrate blues legend Robert Johnson's birthday.
    Students learn about blues music and brainstorm subjects that might give them "the blues." Finally, they write their own blues lyrics and have the option to perform.
30. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 1
    Celebrate Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
    Students "step into the shoes" of their favorite author by reading several of their books, conducting research, and preparing displays and presentations for the class.

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