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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   A Daily DEAR Program: Drop Everything, and Read!
   The teacher shouts, "Drop Everything and Read!" and students settle into their seats to read books they've selected. This independent reading program helps students build a lifelong reading habit.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Buzz! Whiz! Bang! Using Comic Books to Teach Onomatopoeia
   This lesson is sure to sizzle, not fizzle, as students use comic strips to find onomatopoetic words, develop a vocabulary list from the words, and discuss why writers use onomatopoeia.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Earth Verse: Using Science in Poetry
   Students shape up their reading, writing, and listening skills in this lesson by creating original diamante, acrostic, and shape poems about science.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Going Digital: Using e-Book Readers to Enhance the Reading Experience
   Students use various tools and features of digital readers to develop vocabulary, support comprehension, respond to text, improve fluency, and enhance the reading experience.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 3  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Guided Reading Strategies with Henry and Mudge
   In this lesson, students read Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night as a whole group as the teacher models a questioning strategy. In subsequent sessions, students practice the questioning strategy and reread for fluency.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension Using Social Studies
   Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through lesson activities that incorporate research, imagination, writing, visual arts, and drama.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing
   K-W-L Creator
   This tool allows students to create an online K-W-L chart. Saving capability makes it easy for them to start the chart before reading and then return to it to reflect on what they learned.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Multipurpose Poetry: Introducing Science Concepts and Increasing Fluency
   Creepy crawlers, hoppers, and fliers are the focus of this lesson in which students chorally read poems about insects and use the Internet to locate facts about their assigned insects.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Nature Reflections: Interactive Language Practice for English-Language Learners
   Students whose first language is not English reflect on nature through readings, a visit to a green area, and bookmaking using the writing process and peer feedback.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Once Upon a Link: A PowerPoint Adventure With Fractured Fairy Tales
    What really happened to the three little pigs? Students will read and write fractured fairy tales. In composing and editing these tales, students focus on the six traits of writing.

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