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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing Grammar Pet Peeves
   By analyzing Dear Abby’s “rant” about bad grammar usage, students become aware that attitudes about race, social class, moral and ethical character, and “proper” language use are intertwined.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Audience, Purpose, and Language Use in Electronic Messages
   Students explore using electronic messaging and Internet abbreviations for specific purposes and examine the importance of using a more formal style of writing based on their audience.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   A-Z: Learning About the Alphabet Book Genre
   Students increase their understanding of alphabet books by participating in a variety of reading and writing activities.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Building Classroom Community Through the Exploration of Acrostic Poetry
   What do your students think about each other? Find out as you teach them the concepts of acrostic poems and challenge them to write an uplifting acrostic about a classmate.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing
   Crossword Puzzles
   This tool allows students to complete crossword puzzles on a variety of grade-appropriate topics, and also create and print their own crossword puzzles.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Dr. Seuss’s Sound Words: Playing with Phonics and Spelling
   Boom! Br-r-ring! Cluck! Moo!—Everywhere you turn, you find exciting sounds. Students use these sounds to write their own poems based on Dr. Seuss's Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Dynamite Diamante Poetry
   Introduce gerunds and review nouns, adjectives, and verbs through engaging read-alouds; then apply these concepts through collaborative word-sorting and poetry-writing activities.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Family Message Journals Teach Many Purposes for Writing
   This lesson encourages children to explore authentic reasons for writing by writing messages to their family in a family message journal.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Getting the ig in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime
    Students will need their language-building hard hats as they construct words using onset and rime, building vocabulary and phonics comprehension.

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