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- Classroom Resources | Grades K – 12 | Calendar Activity | April 4
Celebrate National Library Week!
Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week. - Classroom Resources | Grades 1 – 12 | Calendar Activity | June 20
Celebrate the first day of summer with summer reading.
Families are invited to a June literacy fair to end the school year and get students on the right track for the summer. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Characters in Because of Winn-Dixie: Making Lists of Ten
The list of ten things about Opal's absent mother that her father shares in Because of Winn-Dixie serves as inspiration for students to create their own lists describing literary characters. - 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. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Minilesson
Choosing Clear and Varied Dialogue Tags: A Minilesson
In this minilesson, students explore the use of dialogue tags such as "he said" or "she answered" in picture books and novels, discussing their purpose, form, and style. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 12 | Calendar Activity | June 1
CNN debuted as the first television news network in 1980.
Students brainstorm a list of modern news sources and from previous centuries. Groups then research one of these sources and create a timeline showing the evolution of news. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Color Poems—Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting
Students use their five senses as a prewriting tool to guide their poetry writing as they compose free-form poems using imagery to describe a color. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Comics in the Classroom as an Introduction to Genre Study
Multidimensional, challenging, and popular with students, comics provide an excellent way to introduce the concept of genres. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Compiling Poetry Collections and a Working Definition of Poetry
This unit introduces students to a variety of poetic forms and elements, as they compile their own collections of poetry. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Creating a Classroom Newspaper
Students write authentic newspaper stories, including learning about various aspects of newspapers, such as writing an article, online articles, newspaper reading habits, and layout and design techniques.
