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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Bad Case of Bullying: Using Literature Response Groups
   Students learn how to effectively deal with bullying by participating in literature response groups and writing about when they experienced a similar situation or emotion as a fictional character.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Schema-Building Study With Patricia Polacco
   Students use the Semantic Impressions and Possible Sentences strategies to write about Patricia Polacco's books Chicken Sunday and Rechenka's Egg, complete a character study, and write using a WebQuest.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Buzz! Whiz! Bang! Using Comic Books to Teach Onomatopoeia
   This lesson is sure to sizzle, not fizzle, as students use comic strips to find onomatopoetic words, develop a vocabulary list from the words, and discuss why writers use onomatopoeia.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 30
   Caldecott Medal-winner Virginia Lee Burton was born on this day in 1909.
   Students discuss similarities in Burton's illustrations and writing style in her many books, in addition to her use of personification.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 25
   Caldecott-winning illustrator Lane Smith was born in 1959.
   Students discuss some of the ways in which illustrations can enhance a story and then become illustrators, using a variety of media.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 4
   Celebrate John Venn's Birthday!
   Students celebrate the birth of English logician, philosopher, and creator of the Venn Diagram by building community within the classroom by comparing and contrasting likes, dislikes, and characteristics about one another.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Characters in Because of Winn-Dixie: Making Lists of Ten
   The list of ten things about Opal's absent mother that her father shares in Because of Winn-Dixie serves as inspiration for students to create their own lists describing literary characters.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Color Poems—Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting
   Students use their five senses as a prewriting tool to guide their poetry writing as they compose free-form poems using imagery to describe a color.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Comics in the Classroom as an Introduction to Genre Study
   Multidimensional, challenging, and popular with students, comics provide an excellent way to introduce the concept of genres.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Creating Classroom Community by Crafting Themed Poetry Collections
    Students create poetry collections with the theme of "getting to know each other." They study and then write a variety of forms of poetry to include in their collections.

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