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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   A Journal for Corduroy: Responding to Literature
   Connect home and school, literature and life, as students take a storybook character home with them and take turns writing stories about his visit.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Building Phonemic Awareness With Phoneme Isolation
   Students improve phonemic awareness through games and chants that help them isolate beginning and ending sounds and connect them with their written symbols (graphemes).
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 1  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Catching the Bug for Reading Through Interactive Read-Alouds
   Students learn about story structure, new vocabulary, and a variety of reading strategies by participating in an interactive read-aloud of Miss Bindergarten Stays Home From Kindergarten by Joseph Slate.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Choosing the Right Book: Strategies for Beginning Readers
   Students make purposeful choices for their reading materials, thinking about their reasons for reading a book and using strategies to match books to their abilities.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Involving Students and Families in Ongoing Reflection and Assessment
   Students begin by writing a sentence or two each week and progress to daily reflections and records of their school activity. Families respond to these student reflections, which become the basis for discussion among family, teacher, and students.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Learning Centers: From Shared to Independent Practice
   Seven blind mice—see how they spend each day of the week in this lesson that uses the book Seven Blind Mice to guide students through shared reading, writing, and listening activities.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Literacy Centers: Getting Started
   This lesson gives teachers resources and guidance to create reading, listening, computer, and poetry Literacy Centers in their own classrooms.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Literature Circles with Primary Students Using Self-Selected Reading
    Students respond to self-selected books in journals, and talk about their books daily in small groups. The teacher guides students by offering suggestions and writing with them in dialogue journals.

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