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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Alaska Native Stories: Using Narrative to Introduce Expository Text
   Tradition and technology come together in this lesson in which students learn about Alaskan animals through Native American tales and their own online research.
2. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Activity & Project
   Amazing Biographies: Writing About People Who Change the World
   After reading about historical figures and other important people that have changed the world, children choose someone that they consider to be "amazing"—either someone they've heard about or someone they know—and create a book page that highlights this person.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Musical Prompt: Postcards From the Concert
   Students won't miss a beat in this musical lesson that combines listening with personal response on a postcard.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Artistic Elements: Exploring Art Through Descriptive Writing
   Paint a vivid picture in your reader's mind with good descriptive writing! Artwork provides the perfect starting point for practicing descriptive writing that conveys color, shape, line, and mood.
5. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   1 – 4  |  Activity & Project
   Become a Young Archaeologist
   Want to visit a museum without leaving your computer? Virtually dig for famous historical artifacts from around the world found in the British Museum.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
   In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
7. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Game & Tool
   Book Cover Creator
   The Book Cover Creator allows users to type and illustrate front and back covers, and full dust jackets.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
   Book Cover Creator
   The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.
9. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Podcast Episode
   Books With a Playlist
   Share your musical heritage with kids this summer and get inspired by four stories about family, jazz, and the relationships that last a lifetime.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Buzz! Whiz! Bang! Using Comic Books to Teach Onomatopoeia
    This lesson is sure to sizzle, not fizzle, as students use comic strips to find onomatopoetic words, develop a vocabulary list from the words, and discuss why writers use onomatopoeia.

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