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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Charlotte is Wise, Patient, and Caring: Adjectives and Character Traits
   Students find examples of adjectives in a shared reading. Then students "become" major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using powerful adjectives.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Identifying and Classifying Verbs in Context
   The interactive read-aloud in this lesson helps students to identify and classify the three verb types—action, state-of-being or linking, and helping verbs.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Rooting Out Meaning: Morpheme Match-Ups in the Primary Grades
   In this lesson, students use morphemes—English words that have been formed by combining common word parts—to explore word meanings.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
   "2-4-6-8, students will be spelling great" in this lesson that teaches the y rule for adding suffixes through cheering the spelling of words aloud, word sorts, and writing stories.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 31
   Time Magazine launches its "Tom Swifty" contest today in 1963.
   Students have fun with language by creating a special kind of pun with its origin in a literary source.