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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Recipe for Writing: Fairy Tale Feasts
   After examining recipes written based on students' favorite fairy tales, students research a recipe related to their favorite story, book, or fairy tale and include it in a classroom recipe book.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Connect With Low-Literate Families: A Three-Tiered Approach
   Parents and caregivers take a page from the teacher's book when they listen to students' take-home poems or stories and discuss the ideas within.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Family Message Journals Teach Many Purposes for Writing
   This lesson encourages children to explore authentic reasons for writing by writing messages to their family in a family message journal.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Family Ties: Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension
   Families are all about connections between people. In this lesson, students read three books about different families and make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections to those texts.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   From Little House to My House: Exploring History and Family Roles
   Blaze a trail to new perspectives on home and family through historical fiction read-alouds. Students compare an episode from one of the "Little House" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (in picture book format) with the author's life and with their own experiences.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Launching Family Message Journals
   This lesson introduces Family Message Journals—a teacher-tested tool for encouraging family involvement and supporting writing to reflect and to learn.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Persuasive Writing: What Can Writing in Family Message Journals Do for Students?
   This lesson engages children in using writing to their families as a persuasive tool to get what they want and need.