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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   A Journal for Corduroy: Responding to Literature
   Connect home and school, literature and life, as students take a storybook character home with them and take turns writing stories about his visit.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Building a Matrix for Leo Lionni Books: An Author Study
   In this author study, students listen to and discuss four books by Leo Lionni. They identify similarities and differences in the stories and then compare two stories of their choice.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 5
   Celebrate National Library Week!
   Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week.
4. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
   Cooking and Creating in the Kitchen
   After reading If You Give a Moose a Muffin, have a "Muffin Party"! Children will write invitations, follow a recipe, and enjoy sharing their homemade muffins.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating a Class Pattern Book With Popular Culture Characters
   Students hit the hallways with their favorite pop culture characters in this lesson to photograph the characters in various situations and then write about the pictures in a pattern-book structure.
   
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm
   Students often believe that fiction writers make everything up, seldom realizing how research worms its way into entertaining writing. In this lesson, students read Diary of a Worm to find out how fact merges with fiction.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Family Ties: Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension
   Families are all about connections between people. In this lesson, students read three books about different families and make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections to those texts.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Finding Fabulous Financial Literacy Vocabulary With Fancy Nancy
   Fancy Nancy teaches fancy words. Did you know Nancy also teaches about fabulous financial literacy concepts? Explore basic economics vocabulary with the entrepreneur extraordinaire!
9. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
   Friendship: Exploring Similarities and Differences
   After reading a book about friendship, children will reflect on one of their own friendships and look at how they are like their friends and maybe how they are different.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Gingerbread Phonics
    "Run, run, as fast as you can." Students use this refrain from The Gingerbread Man to learn letter-sound correspondence. Students use their new skills to write an online story.

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