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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. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 28
   Author Lois Duncan was born on this date in 1934.
   Mysteries are shared with students for them to solve and brainstorm the attributes of a good mystery. Small groups then compose short mysteries using the Mystery Cube.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Creating a Childhood for a Character
   Students explore familiar literary characters, usually first encountered as adults, but whose childhood stories are only told later. Students then create childhoods for adult characters from books of their choice.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 19
   Celebrate National Library Week!
   Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
   Students analyze "choose your own adventure" stories and brainstorm to develop setting, characters, and plots for their own adventures stories and related Websites.
   
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 27
   Coretta Scott King was born on this day in 1927.
   Students do a book report assignment based on a current or past winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Award.
7. 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.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Developing Reading Plans to Support Independent Reading
   Students analyze their past readings and use that knowledge to create reading plans for the future.
   
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Great American Inventors: Using Nonfiction to Learn About Technology Inventions
   Who are the people behind the world's greatest inventions? Students read biographies of a terrific trio of American inventors and create presentations that highlight how their inventions from the past impacted the future.
10. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
    Guideline on The Students' Right to Read
    The current edition of The Students' Right to Read is an adaptation and updating of the original Council statement, including "Citizen's Request for Reconsideration of a Work."

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