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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blast Off! Vocabulary Instruction Using a Virtual Moon Trip
   3, 2, 1... Blast off! Students learn new vocabulary by taking a virtual field trip to the moon, read-alouds, creating a picture dictionary, and completing a final writing activity.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Four Simple Steps to Small-Group Guided Writing
   Students will go batty about the three writing strategies they learn in this lesson centered on Nicola Davies' Bat Loves the Night.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories
   Students gather factual information about frogs and toads to create nonfiction and fiction stories. Drawing is used for prewriting.
6. 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.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   I Wonder: Writing Scientific Explanations With Students
   Students choose a question to explore, research it using a variety of resources, organize their information on a TCF chart, and then collaboratively write a class scientific explanation.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Predicting and Gathering Information With Nonfiction Texts
   Students take a walk on the wild side when they develop an understanding of nonfiction texts with hands-on experiences and intense analysis.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Protecting Our Precious Planet: Sharing the Message of Earth Day
   Students discover that they can make a world of difference when they participate in the online Earth Day bag program.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Rain, Ice, Steam: Using Reading to Support Inquiry About the Water Cycle
    Water is always moving in a continuous cycle from liquid to solid to gas and back again. Students study this never-ending cycle through shared readings, center activities, and experiments.

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