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1. 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.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Connect With Low-Literate Families: A Three-Tiered Approach
   Parents and caregivers take a page from the teacher's book when they listen to students' take-home poems or stories and discuss the ideas within.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Getting the ig in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime
   Students will need their language-building hard hats as they construct words using onset and rime, building vocabulary and phonics comprehension.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for English-Language Learners
   Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.
5. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Tip & How-To
   Make the Most of Reading Aloud
   Learn a few simple read-aloud strategies that can sharpen a child's emerging reading skills and help you have fun together with a good book.
6. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
   Second-Language Literacy Instruction
   This position statement offers recommendations on ways to support second-language learners.
7. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 1  |  Printout  |  Word Play
   Uh-Oh! Alphabet Game
   This activity helps children learn to recognize letters and their sounds, and to associate sounds and letters with words.
8. 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.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Weekend News! A Weekly Writing Activity
   On Monday mornings, you're likely to be asked, "What did you do this weekend?" In this lesson, students respond to this question in a self-assessed writing assignment about their weekend adventures.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Whole-to-Parts Phonics Instruction: Teaching Letter-Sound Correspondences
    Students will find that learning onset and rime is a handy skill when they read the Jack and Jill rhyme.