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1. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Connecting with Intention
   Join Franki Sibberson and Bill Bass, authors of Digital Reading: What's Essential in Grades 3-8, to explore how these connections can change the way that students interact with their ideas and each other.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Investigating Junk Mail: Negotiating Critical Literacy at the Mailbox
   Students increase their media literacy skills by critically examining and revising junk mail.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Looking at Landmarks: Using a Picture Book to Guide Research
   This lesson uses Ben's Dream by Chris Van Allsburg to highlight ten major landmarks of the world. Students research the landmarks and present their findings to the class.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Question and Answer Books--From Genre Study to Report Writing
   After exploring several question and answer books on a variety of topics, students research a topic and create their own class question and answer book.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Reading, Writing, Haiku Hiking! A Class Book of Picturesque Poems
   Students learn haiku
   write descriptive poems
   and share with the class.
   
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Research Building Blocks: Notes, Quotes, and Fact Fragments
   Students are guided through the process of taking notes while reading factual information, then turning those notes into new sentences and paragraphs written in their own words.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 26
   Sally Ride, first American woman in space, was born in 1951.
   After exploring information about Sally Ride on the StarKids Who's Who site, students write a letter using the Letter Generator to Dr. Ride's foundation, Sally Ride Science.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Sequencing: A Strategy to Succeed at Reading Comprehension
   Did Paul Bunyan gouge out the Grand Canyon before or after he dug the Great Lakes? Students create a life-sized timeline showing the sequence of events in this tall tale.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 31
   Time Magazine launches its "Tom Swifty" contest today in 1963.
   Students have fun with language by creating a special kind of pun with its origin in a literary source.