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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Literature Circles: Getting Started
    Students practice different ways of collaborating to read a work of literature. They work in different roles as they compose and answer questions, discover new vocabulary, and examine literary elements.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Literature Circles with Primary Students Using Self-Selected Reading
    Students respond to self-selected books in journals, and talk about their books daily in small groups. The teacher guides students by offering suggestions and writing with them in dialogue journals.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Literature Response in Primary Classrooms
    This step-by-step literature response template for use with read-alouds asks students to use drawing and writing to respond to increasingly-complex prompts which address literary elements as well as personal connections.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Living the Dream: 100 Acts of Kindness
    This lesson provides the "action piece" for any study of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In this project, students participate in Dr. King's dream by doing 100 acts of kindness.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Note Writing in the Primary Classroom
    This lesson provides a wealth of ideas for using notes in the classroom to promote authentic writing among children.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Shared Spelling Strategies
    Students increase their spelling accuracy and retention, while preserving fluency, by using sound, sight recall, and analyzing strategies instead of memorizing words, as they deal with spelling during drafting.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Utilizing Visual Images for Creating and Conveying Setting in Written Text
    This lesson supports third-through-sixth grade students as they communicate story setting to their readers through the use of visual image prompts. Activities include individual and cooperative learning group work, as well as whole class discussion.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Webcams in the Classroom: Animal Inquiry and Observation
    Students observe animals using one of the many webcams broadcasting from zoos and aquariums around the United States and the world, with a focus on observation, discussion, questioning, and research.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Weekly Writer's Blogs: Building a Reflective Community of Support
    Students explore the conventions of blog writing while using it to self-reflect on their writing and communicate with classmates about each other's reflections.
20. Classroom Resources | Grade   K  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    What's in a Name? Teaching Concepts of Letter and Word
    In this recurring activity, the process of choosing a helper for the day becomes a literacy activity, with the helper's name as a starting place for reading and writing.
    

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