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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 21
   It's Winter in the Northern Hemisphere!
   Students brainstorm words or images that they associate with winter, select and read a picture book about winter, and compare the two using the interactive Venn Diagram.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Teaching Shapes Using Read-Alouds, Visualization, and Sketch to Stretch
   Visual clues in winter-themed books used in this lesson encourage students to make real-world math connections.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Let’s Build a Snowman
   In this lesson, students use both fiction and nonfiction texts, the Internet, and a K-W-L chart to learn about how animals survive the winter.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Speaking Poetry: Exploring Sonic Patterns Through Performance
   Using their voices as interpretive instruments, students gain a deeper appreciation of the art of poetry as they prepare a recitation of the frequently anthologized poem “Those Winter Sundays.”
5. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Writing Our Communities: Local Learning and Public Culture
   Student engagement with community becomes the centerpiece of the book, an engagement that takes place across disciplines through projects involving history, environment, culture, and much more.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Shhh! Bear's Sleeping: Learning About Nonfiction and Fiction Using Read-Alouds
   Students explore the distinction between the fiction story Bear Snores On and the nonfiction book Every Autumn Comes the Bear.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing
   Using Snowflake Bentley as a model, students create a working definition of multigenre text and then use that definition to create their own multigenre piece about winter or another theme.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Sonic Patterns: Exploring Poetic Techniques Through Close Reading
   Students develop close reading skills connecting sound with sense in the poem “Those Winter Sundays,” and write an original text that reflects their new learning.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
   Postcard Creator
   The Postcard Creator helps students learn to identify all the typical parts of a postcard, and then generate their own postcard messages by typing information into letter templates. After printing their texts, students can illustrate the front of their postcards in a variety of ways, including drawing, collage, and stickers.
10. 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.

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