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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Biographies: Creating Timelines of a Life
   In this lesson students explore a number of sources to create a biographical timeline about a selected person. Students collaboratively research and resolve conflicting information they find during their investigation.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Composing Cinquain Poems with Basic Parts of Speech
   Reinforce student understanding of parts of speech through the analysis of sample cinquain poems followed by the creation of original cinquains.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Developing a Living Definition of Reading in the Elementary Classroom
   Using the guiding question, "What is reading?" students interact with a variety of texts as they uncover the skills necessary to interact with texts and develop a definition of reading.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring How Section Headings Support Understanding of Expository Texts
   Nonfiction may be dull for some students, but this lesson helps them focus on the main ideas. Through awareness of section headings, students learn to sort and categorize main concepts.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Fairy Tale Autobiographies
   Students read and analyze fairy tales from several cultures, identifying common elements. Choosing common situations, students write original fairy tales, using picture books as models and a peer review process.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Fairy Tales from Life
   Picture books provide the basis for an analysis of fairy tale elements before students write their own original tales.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Flying to Freedom: Tar Beach and The People Could Fly
   Students look to the past and use historical context to compare and contrast two characters from folktales.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan
   Get the Reel Scoop: Comparing Books to Movies
   Students compare a book to its film adaptation, and then perform readers theater of a scene from the book that they feel was not well represented in the movie version.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Leading to Great Places in the Elementary Classroom
   Students examine great leads in children's literature before writing or revising a lead in their own writing.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Learning to Learn with Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster
    Modeled on the activities in Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster, a picture book, students combine vocabulary exploration with word play by planning their own vocabulary parade.

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