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1. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
   Cooking and Creating in the Kitchen
   After reading If You Give a Moose a Muffin, have a "Muffin Party"! Children will write invitations, follow a recipe, and enjoy sharing their homemade muffins.
2. 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.
3. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Activity & Project
   Let's Go On A Poetry Walk!
   The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and you're surrounded by brilliant shades of green! Observe and collect sensory images from nature and use the sights, sounds, smells, and textures to create original nature poetry.
4. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Activity & Project
   Let the Show Begin! Literary Talent Show
   Children choose their favorite songs, dances, poems, or stories to act out in a talent show for friends and family.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Shared Experiences, Individual Impressions: Buddies Create PowerPoint Stories
   Stories and snapshots of school-related experiences are the perfect sources of inspiration for students as they create PowerPoint presentations with the help of an older student.
   
6. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 3  |  Activity & Project
   Stories of Appreciation
   Using either a print or online template such as Tikatok, children can honor special people in their lives by creating personalized books.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Text Talk: Julius, the Baby of the World
   Students are asked to "talk" with Kevin Henkes' Julius, the Baby of the World by using open-ended questions to help them interpret the language, plot, and characters of the story.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 3  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 5
   Today is Leo Lionni's birthday.
   As a child growing up in Holland, Leo Lionni taught himself how to draw and later became an author and illustrator of children's books. Leo Lionni is the winner of four Caldecott awards.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Using Folk Tales: Vowel Influences on the Letter G
   Gentle, gigantic, graceful—do these g words describe the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk? Students will explore the hard and soft g sounds by studying fairy tales and animals.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using Songwriting to Build Awareness of Beginning Letter Sounds
    "Bessie bird lives in a barn" in this lesson in which students create alliterative animal songs to help them learn letter names and consonant sounds and build phonemic awareness.