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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   "America the Beautiful": Using Music and Art to Develop Vocabulary
   Students engage in a rich study of vocabulary words from the song "America the Beautiful," using music and art.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating a Class Pattern Book With Popular Culture Characters
   Students hit the hallways with their favorite pop culture characters in this lesson to photograph the characters in various situations and then write about the pictures in a pattern-book structure.
   
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 1  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Draw a Story: Stepping from Pictures to Writing
   Students draw a series of pictures that tell a story, including character action, problem and solution. They ‘read' their story to others, transcribe it into writing, and create an accordion book.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm
   Students often believe that fiction writers make everything up, seldom realizing how research worms its way into entertaining writing. In this lesson, students read Diary of a Worm to find out how fact merges with fiction.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 1  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   From Stop Signs to the Golden Arches: Environmental Print
   Students bring the print-rich environment of the community into the classroom through the use of environmental print, enabling emergent readers to delight in the realization that they are indeed readers.
7. 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.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Going on a Shape Hunt: Integrating Math and Literacy
   Students participate in a scavenger hunt for shapes; reading, writing, and discussion of shapes encourage literacy and math skills.
9. Classroom Resources | Grade   K  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Growing Readers and Writers with Help from Mother Goose
   Watch Mother Goose work her magic! This lesson uses nursery rhymes to help emergent readers remember the letters and their sounds and identify word chunks.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Have Journal...Will Travel: Promoting Family Involvement in Literacy
    Students build positive memories of literacy activities when they take turns taking home a book bag stuffed with items to encourage literacy interactions with their families.

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