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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Combining Read-Alouds With Economics in the Primary Grades
   Students learn that what you read in books can really add up when they analyze literary texts for economic concepts.
2. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Tip & How-To
   Engaging the Five Senses to Learn About Our World
   The outside world shapes children's development through experiences that they have, which include using their five senses—hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch. Drawing a child's attention to the five senses and discussing them increases understanding of and communication about the world around us.
3. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Printout  |  Learning New Skills
   Exploring the Five Senses
   This printout helps engage children in the thinking about how their five senses contribute to their understanding of and communication about their world.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Inspire Healthful Reading Using Unconventional Texts
   This minilesson encourages children to seek out and appropriately react to nutrition labels and to make healthy food choices, integrating science, math, health, and literacy.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 5  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 11
   Jane Yolen was born in 1939.
   Students read one of Jane Yolen's books, retell the story in the form of a puppet show, research animals in the book, and document their findings with the Animal Study interactive tool.
7. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Activity & Project
   Let's Go On A Poetry Walk!
   The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and you're surrounded by brilliant shades of green! Observe and collect sensory images from nature and use the sights, sounds, smells, and textures to create original nature poetry.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Rain, Ice, Steam: Using Reading to Support Inquiry About the Water Cycle
   Water is always moving in a continuous cycle from liquid to solid to gas and back again. Students study this never-ending cycle through shared readings, center activities, and experiments.