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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blogging in the Primary Grades? Yes, Indeed!
   Give students an authentic reason to read and write by researching blogs written by their peers around the world and then writing their own.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Building a Learning Community: Crafting Rules for the Classroom
   Students will learn to mind their ps and qs in this lesson on etiquette and appropriate behavior in the classroom.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Cultural Connections and Writing for Change
   A little understanding can go a long way. After learning about difficulties that Palestinian youths face, students will write a letter to an official discussing these issues.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Friendship With Bridge to Terabithia
   Students make predictions about Bridge to Terabithia and its characters, complete character studies, and relate the characters' experiences to their own as they identify ways to make and keep friends.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Getting to Know You: Developing Short Biographies to Build Community
   How well do your students know their peers? Students transform into investigative reporters as they interview a classmate, compile the biographical data into graphic form, and introduce the student to the class.
   
7. 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.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Name Tag Glyphs
   In this lesson, students practice a way to communicate without words by using a glyph. They create a name card using information about themselves. Students also interpret glyphs made by others.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Our Classroom: Writing an Owner's Manual
   Students write an owner's manual that helps them get to know their classroom, provides them with a sense of ownership, and lets others know about their classroom.
10. 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.

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