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Create a Great Future: STEM Career Research Using Close Reading
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Bringing Economic Vocabulary to Life Through Video Posters
2 - 5
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| Minilesson
Imagine if vocabulary could come alive with the click of a button! Students create video posters to demonstrate knowledge of new economics vocabulary.
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Finding Solutions to Food Waste: Persuasion in a Digital World
7 - 9
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Using various reading strategies and resources, students explore the issue of food waste. They also create persuasive arguments and blog posts examining this topic.
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Awareness of Alliteration: Enhancing Writing Through Mentor Texts
1
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| Standard Lesson
Through this lesson, primary students strengthen their phonemic awareness while using picture books featuring alliteration as models for their own writing.
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Resumes and Cover Letters for High School Students
9 - 12
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High school students are taught how to use resumes and cover letters to highlight their skills and make them stand out, whether applying to college or for a job.
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Loaded Words: Vocabulary That Packs a Punch in Persuasive Writing
4 - 8
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| Minilesson
In this minilesson, students practice identifying and purposefully using vocabulary in persuasive writing that is intended to have an emotional impact on the reader.
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Creating a Feast for the Senses With Mentor Texts
3 - 6
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| Minilesson
This lesson teaches intermediate students to "use the experts" to learn how to revise to create sharp, sensory-rich experiences for their readers.
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Engaging With Cause-and-Effect Relationships Through Creating Comic Strips
2 - 4
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Students demonstrate their knowledge of cause-and-effect relationships by creating original comic strips and sharing their completed work in an oral presentation format.
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Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
9 - 12
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| Recurring Lesson
Students publish their work in an electronic portfolio, which enables them to respond to each other's content online.
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e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
5 - 12
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| Standard Lesson
Students in grades 5 through 12 read and respond to electronic books by using e-book tools and features, including digital note-taking capabilities.
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Jazz Up Writing Workshop: Writing Biographies of African American Jazz Musicians
2 - 3
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During writing workshop, students research, write, revise, and share their own comprehensive biographies of African American jazz musicians.
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Reading Idol! Bringing Readers Theatre Center Stage in Your Classroom
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
Students produce a Readers Theatre performance to compete to be named the Reading Idol. Students vote on the final performances and record them as podcasts.
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Talking About Books to Improve Comprehension
3 - 5
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| Recurring Lesson
This lesson is a conversation-starter! In this lesson, students learn about striking up deep-thought conversations and staying on topic in the form of a book talk.
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Rain, Ice, Steam: Using Reading to Support Inquiry About the Water Cycle
K - 2
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Water is always moving in a continuous cycle from liquid to solid to gas and back again. Students study this never-ending cycle through shared readings, center activities, and experiments.
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When I Was Young In...A Literature to Language Experience
6 - 8
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Past meets present in this lesson in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.
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Using Children's Literature to Develop Classroom Community
3 - 6
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| Standard Lesson
Conversation and cooperation bring out the best in students when they hold dialogues about their individual strengths, abilities, and talents.
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Lonely as a Cloud: Using Poetry to Understand Similes
4 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
Students identify similes in poetry and gain experience in using similes as a poetic device in their own work.
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Using Technology to Analyze and Illustrate Symbolism in Night
6 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
Images have power—they can trigger memories or symbolize abstract ideas. Students put the power of images to the test as they analyze symbolism in Night and create symbolic photomontages.
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Integrating Literacy Into the Study of the Earth's Surface
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
Water covers 71% of the earth's surface—does it get the instructional time it deserves in your busy curriculum? Students wade right in to the study of bodies of water as they read and discuss science trade books and work together to develop Readers Theater scripts based on selected titles.
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Shhh! Bear's Sleeping: Learning About Nonfiction and Fiction Using Read-Alouds
K - 2
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| Standard Lesson
Students explore the distinction between the fiction story Bear Snores On and the nonfiction book Every Autumn Comes the Bear.