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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Animal Study: From Fiction to Facts
   Students listen to fiction and nonfiction read-alouds and explore selected Websites to identify factual information about animals. This lesson focuses on ants, but can be adapted to any animal.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Bridging Literature and Mathematics by Visualizing Mathematical Concepts
   During interactive read-aloud sessions, students identify how an author conveys mathematical information about animals' sizes and abilities. They then conduct research projects focusing on the same mathematical concepts.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue
   Students explore the concepts of audience and purpose by focusing on an issue that divided Americans in 1925, the debate of evolution versus creationism raised by the Scopes Monkey Trial.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Sets through Math-Related Book Pairs
   After reading two math-related books, students investigate their home and school environments to find examples of objects that come in sets and then create their own books on sets.
5. 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.
6. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Technology That Powers Up Learning
   By designing lessons to activate prior knowledge and linking these activities to reading and writing, teachers found that students were more engaged, that they learned more material more quickly, and that they more willingly incorporated reading into their lives.