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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Audience, Purpose, and Language Use in Electronic Messages
   Students explore using electronic messaging and Internet abbreviations for specific purposes and examine the importance of using a more formal style of writing based on their audience.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Reading Movies and TV: Learning the "Language" of Moving-Image Texts
   Introduce students to the idea that movies and TV have their own language and grammar, which gives them special ways of telling their stories.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 3  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Show What You Know: Read, Write and Solve Math Problems
   Informational texts, iPads, and interactive games, oh, my! Help students journey through multimodal texts to identify and solve real-world mathematics problems using writing and apps.
5. 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.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   You're the Top! Pop Culture Then and Now
   Students analyze the lyrics to Cole Porter's "You're the Top!" and then update them to include current "tops" in pop culture.