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1. 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.
   
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Choosing the Right Book: Strategies for Beginning Readers
   Students make purposeful choices for their reading materials, thinking about their reasons for reading a book and using strategies to match books to their abilities.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Diagram It! Identifying, Comparing, and Writing About Nonfiction Texts
   Students compare the traits fact and fiction by using a Venn diagram to compare fiction and nonfiction books about Native Americans.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Digging Up Details on Worms: Using the Language of Science in an Inquiry Study
   This lesson, in which students research worms in order to create a classroom habitat, incorporates reading and writing across content areas as well as math and science activities.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Digital Word Detectives: Building Vocabulary With e-Book Readers
   Students in grades 2-6 use digital dictionaries and other e-book tools to learn new vocabulary as they read e-books on digital reading devices.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Sets through Math-Related Book Pairs
   After reading two math-related books, students investigate their home and school environments to find examples of objects that come in sets and then create their own books on sets.
8. 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.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 3  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Jazz Up Writing Workshop: Writing Biographies of African American Jazz Musicians
   During writing workshop, students research, write, revise, and share their own comprehensive biographies of African American jazz musicians.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Literature Response in Primary Classrooms
    This step-by-step literature response template for use with read-alouds asks students to use drawing and writing to respond to increasingly-complex prompts which address literary elements as well as personal connections.

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