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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Animal Study: From Fiction to Facts
   Students listen to fiction and nonfiction read-alouds and explore selected Websites to identify factual information about animals. This lesson focuses on ants, but can be adapted to any animal.
2. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Assessing Your Students' Writing with Eyes of Possibility
   In this Web seminar, Katherine will provide participants with protocols and templates to use that will help you see what your students are doing well in order to help them want to revise and write more.
3. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Being and Becoming: Multilingual Writers' Practices
   This study examines the writing practices taken on and negotiated by multilingual class members within two multiage elementary classrooms.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blast Off! Vocabulary Instruction Using a Virtual Moon Trip
   3, 2, 1... Blast off! Students learn new vocabulary by taking a virtual field trip to the moon, read-alouds, creating a picture dictionary, and completing a final writing activity.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Building Phonemic Awareness With Phoneme Isolation
   Students improve phonemic awareness through games and chants that help them isolate beginning and ending sounds and connect them with their written symbols (graphemes).
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Completing the Circle: The Craft of Circular Plot Structure
   Students identify, explore and apply the elements of circle plot structures to their own stories by using graphic organizers, reading and writing stories, and using checklists to assess their work.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Digging Deeper: Developing Comprehension Using Thank You, Mr. Falker
   A read-aloud of Patricia Polacco's Thank You, Mr. Falker helps promote deeper comprehension through questioning to achieve personal connections and discussions of character and theme.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Sets through Math-Related Book Pairs
   After reading two math-related books, students investigate their home and school environments to find examples of objects that come in sets and then create their own books on sets.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 11
   Ezra Jack Keats was born on this day in 1916.
   In celebration of Keats' birthday, students write stories that include some characters from Keats' books and practice using collage techniques with the Collage Machine.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Generating Rhymes: Developing Phonemic Awareness
    Traditional chants and songs are adapted to help young students recognize and generate rhymes. The word and letter patterns involved in rhymes provide a stepping stone to reading skills.

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