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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Exploring and Sharing Family Stories
   Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.
   
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories
   Students gather factual information about frogs and toads to create nonfiction and fiction stories. Drawing is used for prewriting.
3. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Summarization in any Subject
   Focusing on practical applications, this web seminar by Rick Wormelli presents the specific steps of summarization, its impact on learning, and dozens of summarization techniques for all subject areas, not just English.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Connection Between Poetry and Music
   Students won't miss a beat in this reading fluency lesson that combines music and poetry.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using THIEVES to Preview Nonfiction Texts
   Students become "thieves" in this lesson as they use a previewing strategy to "steal" information from textbooks and other nonfiction texts before actually reading them.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Weekend News! A Weekly Writing Activity
   On Monday mornings, you're likely to be asked, "What did you do this weekend?" In this lesson, students respond to this question in a self-assessed writing assignment about their weekend adventures.