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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  |  Standard Lesson
   Action ABC's: Learning Vocabulary With Verbs
   Creating an illustrated alphabet book of action words, from attack to zap, reinforces the definition of verbs as it stretches and expands students' vocabulary.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Active Reading Using The Enormous Watermelon
   Using names and high-frequency words from nursery rhymes and the Big Book The Enormous Watermelon, students engage in word recognition activities such as character identification and a word matching game.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Adventures in Nonfiction: A Guided Inquiry Journey
   Students are guided through an informal exploration of nonfiction texts and child-oriented Websites, learning browsing and skimming techniques for the purpose of gathering interesting information.
   
5. Classroom Resources | Grade   K  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Getting-Acquainted Activity Using My Teacher's Secret Life
   Students build classroom community as they get to know each other and their teacher better by sharing what they like to do outside school.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A-Hunting We Will Go: Teaching Rhyming Through Musical Verse
   Adapting the song "A-Hunting We Will Go," students put a whale in a pail and even "take a little bear and hug it if we dare."
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A is for Apple: Building Letter-Recognition Fluency
   Students apply and build their knowledge of letters and letter sounds as they play games and interact with letters online, creating their own ABC book as a final activity.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Alphabetizing With Original Stories
   Students write original stories using alphabetical order, beginning each page with a new letter, and then illustrate their texts in class or at home with their families.
   
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Animal Study: From Fiction to Facts
   Students listen to fiction and nonfiction read-alouds and explore selected Websites to identify factual information about animals. This lesson focuses on ants, but can be adapted to any animal.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    As Slippery as an Eel: An Ocean Unit Exploring Simile and Metaphor
    Students play with simile and metaphor as they study the ocean and use figurative language to write a class book about it.

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