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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Choosing Clear and Varied Dialogue Tags: A Minilesson
   In this minilesson, students explore the use of dialogue tags such as "he said" or "she answered" in picture books and novels, discussing their purpose, form, and style.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Developing Inferential Comprehension Through DL-TA and Discussion Webs
   Students will love unwrapping this lesson about before, during, and after reading activities based on Margaree King Mitchell's book, Grandaddy's Gift.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exchanging Ideas by Sharing Journals: Interactive Response in the Classroom
   Pairs of students respond to literature alternately in shared journals. Mini-lessons are presented on responding to prompts, creating dialogue, adding drawings, and asking and answering questions.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Multimedia Responses to Content Area Topics Using Fact-"Faction"-Fiction
   Students climb into the mind of a spider in this lesson that asks them to compose a spider diary using spider facts, fiction, and "faction"—fiction that sounds like fact.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   My Family Traditions: A Class Book and a Potluck Lunch
   After analyzing Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia by Carmen Lomas Garza, students create a class book with artwork and information about their ancestry, traditions, and recipes, followed by a potluck lunch.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Spelling in Parts: Learning to Spell, Write, and Read Polysyllabic Words
   How do you spell polysyllabic? While this word may be a bit too advanced for students, they will definitely be spelling polysyllabic words using a strategy called Spelling in Parts.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Talking, Writing, and Reasoning: Making Thinking Visible with Math Journals
   Students explore how their problem-solving strategies work by writing in math journals as they work in small groups to solve a math puzzle with multiple solutions.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Technical Reading and Writing Using Board Games
   Students celebrate a novel they have read and get hands-on experience with technical writing by creating a board game based on the novel and writing the instructions for it.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   To, Too, or Two: Developing an Understanding of Homophones
   The classroom becomes a stage in this interactive lesson in which students sing, act, and design comic strips to learn the meanings and spellings of common homophones.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using Pictures to Build Schema for Social Studies Content
    How do you read an image? Students find out in this lesson in which they "read" several images of the Boston Massacre to better understand the event and recognize effects of propaganda.