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1. 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.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Building a Learning Community: Crafting Rules for the Classroom
   Students will learn to mind their ps and qs in this lesson on etiquette and appropriate behavior in the classroom.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Getting to Know You: Developing Short Biographies to Build Community
   How well do your students know their peers? Students transform into investigative reporters as they interview a classmate, compile the biographical data into graphic form, and introduce the student to the class.
   
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Promoting Cultural Values Through Alphabet Books
   C is for Culture in this lesson in which students research a culture different from their own and compile an alphabet book that showcases cultural symbols for each letter of the alphabet.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Solution Square: Strategies for Conflict Resolution
   Students will square up a conflict and learn how to effectively resolve any issues using a Solution Square.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using Children's Literature to Develop Classroom Community
   Conversation and cooperation bring out the best in students when they hold dialogues about their individual strengths, abilities, and talents.
   
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Using Word Storms to Explore Vocabulary and Encourage Critical Thinking
   Students learn that dogs are more than just pets in this lesson, which teaches them to use research and vocabulary-acquisition strategies to learn and write about working dogs.