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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm
    Students often believe that fiction writers make everything up, seldom realizing how research worms its way into entertaining writing. In this lesson, students read Diary of a Worm to find out how fact merges with fiction.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Family Ties: Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension
    Families are all about connections between people. In this lesson, students read three books about different families and make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections to those texts.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Finding Fabulous Financial Literacy Vocabulary With Fancy Nancy
    Fancy Nancy teaches fancy words. Did you know Nancy also teaches about fabulous financial literacy concepts? Explore basic economics vocabulary with the entrepreneur extraordinaire!
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Gingerbread Phonics
    "Run, run, as fast as you can." Students use this refrain from The Gingerbread Man to learn letter-sound correspondence. Students use their new skills to write an online story.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Going Digital: Using e-Book Readers to Enhance the Reading Experience
    Students use various tools and features of digital readers to develop vocabulary, support comprehension, respond to text, improve fluency, and enhance the reading experience.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Guess What's in the Bag: A Language-based Activity
    Students play a guessing game to practice using descriptive language.
    
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Improving Fluency through Group Literary Performance
    Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 5
    In 1952, Paul Fleischman was born on this day.
    Some of Fleishman's memories in his essay "My House of Voices" are shared with the class. Students then write a descriptive essay that gives a tour of the voices in their homes, school, etc.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Inspire Healthful Reading Using Unconventional Texts
    This minilesson encourages children to seek out and appropriately react to nutrition labels and to make healthy food choices, integrating science, math, health, and literacy.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Junie B. Jones Introduces Literacy Mystery Boxes
    Like Junie B. Jones, students will be saying "Wait till you hear this" after listening to a Junie B. story and creating mystery boxes to help retell the story.

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