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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
   In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Bringing Economic Vocabulary to Life Through Video Posters
   Imagine if vocabulary could come alive with the click of a button! Students create video posters to demonstrate knowledge of new economics vocabulary.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Chasing the Dream: Researching the Meaning of the American Dream
   By conducting interviews, sharing and assessing data, and writing papers based on their authentic research, students reach their own conclusions on the meaning of the American Dream.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating Family Timelines: Graphing Family Memories and Significant Events
   Students interview family members, and then create graphic family timelines based on important and memorable family events.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Exploring and Sharing Family Stories
   Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.
   
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Perspectives on Desegregation Using Brown Girl Dreaming
   Students read and discuss a selection of poems from Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming to explore varying views on the process of desegregation in America.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring the Power of Language with Six-Word Memoirs
   What do the words we write really have to say about us? In this lesson, students examine the power of word choice as they write six-word memoirs of their lives.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Finding Fabulous Financial Literacy Vocabulary With Fancy Nancy
   Fancy Nancy teaches fancy words. Did you know Nancy also teaches about fabulous financial literacy concepts? Explore basic economics vocabulary with the entrepreneur extraordinaire!
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Making Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain
    Following the model of N. Scott Momaday's The Way To Rainy Mountain, students write three-voice narratives based on Kiowa folktales, an interview with an Elder, and personal connections to theme.

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