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31. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 8
    Celebrate blues legend Robert Johnson's birthday.
    Students learn about blues music and brainstorm subjects that might give them "the blues." Finally, they write their own blues lyrics and have the option to perform.
32. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 1
    Celebrate Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
    Students "step into the shoes" of their favorite author by reading several of their books, conducting research, and preparing displays and presentations for the class.
33. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 25
    Celebrate Digital Learning Day today.
    Students reflect on recent learning and the role digital tools and media have played in supporting or enhancing it.
34. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 4
    Celebrate John Venn's Birthday!
    Students celebrate the birth of English logician, philosopher, and creator of the Venn Diagram by building community within the classroom by comparing and contrasting likes, dislikes, and characteristics about one another.
35. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 4
    Celebrate National Children's Book Week!
    Children show support for their favorite Children's Choice Book award finalist by designing a promotional book cover.
36. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
    Students analyze "choose your own adventure" stories and brainstorm to develop setting, characters, and plots for their own adventures stories and related Websites.
    
37. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Strategy Guide
    Choral Reading
    During choral reading, students read together orally. Repeated, supported reading helps students read with greater expression and read unfamiliar words with greater ease.
38. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 1
    CNN debuted as the first television news network in 1980.
    Students brainstorm a list of modern news sources and from previous centuries. Groups then research one of these sources and create a timeline showing the evolution of news.
39. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Color My World: Expanding Meaning Potential through Media
    Using different writing/drawing materials (e.g., markers, color pencils, pastels, etc.), students learn how to communicate different moods and/or feelings to support their written ideas and how authors do the same through their work.
40. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Comics in the Classroom as an Introduction to Genre Study
    Multidimensional, challenging, and popular with students, comics provide an excellent way to introduce the concept of genres.

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