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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
   Children find favorite words, phrases, and sentences from familiar stories. Working together, they combine their words and phrases to create a poem. The poem is then shared as performance poetry.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   A Journal for Corduroy: Responding to Literature
   Connect home and school, literature and life, as students take a storybook character home with them and take turns writing stories about his visit.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Buddy Biographies: Intermediate and Primary Students Working Together
   Students create a personalized biography for their reading buddy, and each child is the author, illustrator, and editor.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Combining Read-Alouds With Economics in the Primary Grades
   Students learn that what you read in books can really add up when they analyze literary texts for economic concepts.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 1  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Draw a Story: Stepping from Pictures to Writing
   Students draw a series of pictures that tell a story, including character action, problem and solution. They ‘read' their story to others, transcribe it into writing, and create an accordion book.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm
   Students often believe that fiction writers make everything up, seldom realizing how research worms its way into entertaining writing. In this lesson, students read Diary of a Worm to find out how fact merges with fiction.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Gingerbread Phonics
   "Run, run, as fast as you can." Students use this refrain from The Gingerbread Man to learn letter-sound correspondence. Students use their new skills to write an online story.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Guess What's in the Bag: A Language-based Activity
   Students play a guessing game to practice using descriptive language.
   
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Improving Fluency through Group Literary Performance
   Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Inspire Healthful Reading Using Unconventional Texts
    This minilesson encourages children to seek out and appropriately react to nutrition labels and to make healthy food choices, integrating science, math, health, and literacy.

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