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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
   Children find favorite words, phrases, and sentences from familiar stories. Working together, they combine their words and phrases to create a poem. The poem is then shared as performance poetry.
2. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
   Acting Out with Mother Goose
   Act out a story after reading it. Work together to create a script and make costumes and props. Then invite others to watch and hear your story!
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
   This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They choose important quotations from the text and work in groups to formulate “quiz” questions that their peers will answer.
4. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
   Add Seasons to Rhyming Poems and Songs
   Choose favorite rhyming songs or nursery rhymes then replace the rhyming words with seasonal themes.
5. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
   All About Me! Use Photos to Write Stories
   Help children use favorite photos to write a homemade memory book.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing
   Alphabet Organizer
   Students can use this online tool to print an alphabet chart or pages for an alphabet book.
7. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Activity & Project
   Amazing Biographies: Writing About People Who Change the World
   After reading about historical figures and other important people that have changed the world, children choose someone that they consider to be “amazing”—either someone they’ve heard about or someone they know—and create a book page that highlights this person.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   A Portrait of Our World: Making Connections and Developing Comprehension
   Students engage in carousel walks, character analyses, global explorations, and genre studies while using valuable language arts strategies to build higher-level comprehension skills.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Prereading Strategy: Using the Vocabulary, Language, Prediction (VLP) Approach
   Students learn content area vocabulary and increase reading comprehension using the Vocabulary, Language, Prediction (VLP) approach.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    As Slippery as an Eel: An Ocean Unit Exploring Simile and Metaphor
    Students play with simile and metaphor as they study the ocean and use figurative language to write a class book about it.

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