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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Bridging Literature and Mathematics by Visualizing Mathematical Concepts
   During interactive read-aloud sessions, students identify how an author conveys mathematical information about animals' sizes and abilities. They then conduct research projects focusing on the same mathematical concepts.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Earth Verse: Using Science in Poetry
   Students shape up their reading, writing, and listening skills in this lesson by creating original diamante, acrostic, and shape poems about science.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Cause and Effect Using Expository Texts About Natural Disasters
   Students explore the nature and structure of expository texts that focus on cause and effect and apply what they learned using graphic organizers and writing paragraphs to outline cause-and-effect relationships.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   I Used My Own Words! Paraphrasing Informational Texts
   Tell me about it in your own words! If students can paraphrase the information they have read, then you—and they—can be confident that they understand it.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Multimedia Responses to Content Area Topics Using Fact-"Faction"-Fiction
   Students climb into the mind of a spider in this lesson that asks them to compose a spider diary using spider facts, fiction, and "faction"—fiction that sounds like fact.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Nature Reflections: Interactive Language Practice for English-Language Learners
   Students whose first language is not English reflect on nature through readings, a visit to a green area, and bookmaking using the writing process and peer feedback.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Reading and Writing About Pollution to Understand Cause and Effect
   Students get to write a whale of a tale when they complete a graphic organizer sequencing the journey of a mountain fish to a polluted waterway.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Teaching Science Through Picture Books: A Rainforest Lesson
   Students read Welcome to the Green House, use note-taking strategies, find patterns in text structure, learn vocabulary in context, and write efferent and affective responses to the text.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using Tiered Companion Texts to Comprehend Complex Nonfiction Texts
   Students progress through increasingly difficult tiered texts to gain the necessary background knowledge and problem-solving skills to comprehend complex nonfiction texts.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Writing Acrostic Poems with Thematically Related Texts in the Content Areas
    Students read thematically related texts, scaffolded from simple to complex, to help them gather necessary concept vocabulary and background knowledge in a content area. They then write acrostic poems to organize and present their learning in a creative way.