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21. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Leading to Great Places in the Middle School Classroom
    Students examine leads in existing texts and create alternative leads for them before revising leads in their own writing.
22. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Learning to Learn with Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster
    Modeled on the activities in Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster, a picture book, students combine vocabulary exploration with word play by planning their own vocabulary parade.
23. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information-Gathering Process
    After listening to and discussing the story Score One for the Sloths, primary students research the sloth. Students use a variety of resources, including an information wheel graphic organizer.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Memories Matter: The Giver and Descriptive Writing Memoirs
    Using The Giver, students discuss the importance recorded history. This provides context for descriptive writing of students' own history in a lesson that integrates personal writing, research, and literary response.
27. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 1  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Name Talk: Exploring Letter-Sound Knowledge in the Primary Classroom
    Students demonstrate their letter/sound knowledge by working with name cards and sharing observations about their classmates' names, giving teachers an opportunity to assess knowledge in a meaningful context.
    
28. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Playing with Prepositions through Poetry
    Students play with and explore prepositions during a whole group reading of Ruth Heller's Behind the Mask, and then by composing and publishing prepositional poems based on the book's style.
29. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Poetry: A Feast to Form Fluent Readers
    Students improve their reading fluency by selecting a poem online to perform in class.
30. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Reading and Writing Nonfiction Genres
    This practical, hands-on text shows how to teach nonfiction to elementary students.

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