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- Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 10 | Calendar Activity |  December 19
Author Eve Bunting was born in Ireland in 1928.
Students listen to a news article about the LA race riots and then read Smoky Night to discuss how a younger observer might be affected by these events and their perceptions. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Calendar Activity |  December 9
Author Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1848.
Students study how regional dialect is written phonetically by reading a segment of Harris' story, as well as two others, and compare them using the Interactive Venn Diagram. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Author Study: Improving Reading Comprehension Using Inference and Comparison
"Reading between the lines" can be as crucial to comprehension as understanding the words on the page. Through guided author studies, students experience the benefits and the limitations of inference. - Classroom Resources | Grades 5 – 12 | Calendar Activity |  December 23
Avi was born in 1937.
After reading Nothing But the Truth, students explore a current event topic and write their own short work of fiction in a similar multigenre format. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Recurring Lesson
Book Clubs: Reading for Fun
This lesson describes how small groups of students can plan meetings to discuss what they've read in a "just for fun" book club they've organizedand that they control. - 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. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading Strategy
History takes on new dimensions in this interactive multimedia lesson that emphasizes the B-D-A approach to research as students investigate the experiences of people with disabilities since the early 1800s. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Figurative Language: Teaching Idioms
It's raining cats and dogs! Students explore figurative language through read-alouds, teacher modeling, and student-centered activities, further developing their understanding of the literal versus the metaphorical translations of idioms. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Finding Figurative Language in The Phantom Tollbooth
Students examine figurative language in The Phantom Tollbooth and create a chart representing the literal and figurative meanings of words and phrases. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Recurring Lesson
Flip-a-Chip: Examining Affixes and Roots to Build Vocabulary
Do your students detest having to define vocabulary words? Don"t confine them to worksheetsturn the study of affixes and roots into a hands-on contest to create context-rich vocabulary puzzles.