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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Building Classroom Community Through the Exploration of Acrostic Poetry
   What do your students think about each other? Find out as you teach them the concepts of acrostic poems and challenge them to write an uplifting acrostic about a classmate.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Dynamite Diamante Poetry
   Introduce gerunds and review nouns, adjectives, and verbs through engaging read-alouds; then apply these concepts through collaborative word-sorting and poetry-writing activities.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Rooting Out Meaning: Morpheme Match-Ups in the Primary Grades
   In this lesson, students use morphemes—English words that have been formed by combining common word parts—to explore word meanings.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
   "2-4-6-8, students will be spelling great" in this lesson that teaches the y rule for adding suffixes through cheering the spelling of words aloud, word sorts, and writing stories.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Two Voices of the ow Spelling Pattern
   Variable vowels are the focus of this lesson; students use nursery rhymes and ow to study how vowels can change their sounds according to different spelling patterns.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 3  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Word Study with Henry and Mudge
   Henry and Mudge is used in this lesson to build students' word recognition through rereading, high-frequency word banks, word studies, and writing.