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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Active Reading Using The Enormous Watermelon
   Using names and high-frequency words from nursery rhymes and the Big Book The Enormous Watermelon, students engage in word recognition activities such as character identification and a word matching game.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   A Journal for Corduroy: Responding to Literature
   Connect home and school, literature and life, as students take a storybook character home with them and take turns writing stories about his visit.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Amelia Bedelia Up Close! Closely Reading a Classic Story
   Through a close reading of Amelia Bedelia, students reread the material to discuss text-dependent questions, promoting deep thinking about the text and its characters.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Recipe for Writing: Fairy Tale Feasts
   After examining recipes written based on students' favorite fairy tales, students research a recipe related to their favorite story, book, or fairy tale and include it in a classroom recipe book.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blogging in the Primary Grades? Yes, Indeed!
   Give students an authentic reason to read and write by researching blogs written by their peers around the world and then writing their own.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Bringing Economic Vocabulary to Life Through Video Posters
   Imagine if vocabulary could come alive with the click of a button! Students create video posters to demonstrate knowledge of new economics vocabulary.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Building a Matrix for Leo Lionni Books: An Author Study
   In this author study, students listen to and discuss four books by Leo Lionni. They identify similarities and differences in the stories and then compare two stories of their choice.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Choosing the Right Book: Strategies for Beginning Readers
   Students make purposeful choices for their reading materials, thinking about their reasons for reading a book and using strategies to match books to their abilities.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Collaborative Stories 1: Prewriting and Drafting
    Students hone their teamwork skills and play off each other's writing strengths as they participate in prewriting activities for a story to be written collaboratively by the whole class.

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