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1. 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.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
   CD/DVD Cover Creator
   The CD/DVD Cover Creator allows users to type and illustrate CD and DVD covers and related booklets for liner notes and other information. Students can use the tool to create covers for books, music, and films that they explored as well as to create covers for media they compose individually or as a class.
3. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Strategy Guide
   Choral Reading
   During choral reading, students read together orally. Repeated, supported reading helps students read with greater expression and read unfamiliar words with greater ease.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 22
   Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was born today.
   Students examine the painting that inspired Sondheim's Pulitzer-prize winning musical and then create a story of their own based on image they choose.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Printout  |  Graphic Organizer
   Connection Web
   Students use this printout to expand on connections they have made to a text and use those details to write essays or create projects about the text.
6. Professional Development | Grades   2 – 7  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Creating Lifelong Readers Through Independent Reading
   This book provides information on the benefits of independent reading, how to set up a classroom library, and ways to actively engage students in independent reading.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring the Subtext Strategy: Thinking Beyond the Text
   What is it like to have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day? Students find out in this lesson in which they "become" the characters in Judith Viorst's book.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan
   Get the Reel Scoop: Comparing Books to Movies
   Students compare a book to its film adaptation, and then perform readers theater of a scene from the book that they feel was not well represented in the movie version.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension Using Social Studies
   Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through lesson activities that incorporate research, imagination, writing, visual arts, and drama.
10. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    Honoring Student Voice in the Early Childhood Classroom: Dramatic Play, Stories, and Story Acting
    This web seminar focuses on honoring student voice through story and story acting.

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