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41. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Activity & Project
    Let the Show Begin! Literary Talent Show
    Children choose their favorite songs, dances, poems, or stories to act out in a talent show for friends and family.
42. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Literature as a Catalyst for Social Action: Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges
    Students are invited to confront and discuss issues of injustice and intolerance in response to reading a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts.
43. 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.
44. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Strategy Guide
    Making Connections
    In this strategy guide, you'll learn to model how students can make three different kinds of connections (text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world). Students then use this knowledge to find their own personal connections to a text.
45. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Mapping Characters Across Book Series
    Students work on a guided characterization project, using a graphic map to illustrate the ways a character from a book series grows and evolves over the course of the story.
46. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 9
    Nancy Farmer, three-time Newbery honoree, was born in 1941.
    Students write original short stories in the science fiction genre based on some of Farmer's works and society's most hotly-debated issues, such as cloning, toxic waste, and brain implants.
47. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    New Visions for Linking Literature and Mathematics
    David and Phyllis Whitin offer K–6 teachers a wealth of ideas for integrating literature and mathematics.
48. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
    Postcard Creator
    The Postcard Creator helps students learn to identify all the typical parts of a postcard, and then generate their own postcard messages by typing information into letter templates. After printing their texts, students can illustrate the front of their postcards in a variety of ways, including drawing, collage, and stickers.
49. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Question the Author (QtA)
    In this guide, you'll be introduced to a strategy that requires students to challenge their understanding and solidify their knowledge while reading a text.
50. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 2
    Read Across America Day: Celebrate a Nation of Diverse Readers
    Bring the celebration of reading and literacy into your classroom, library, school, and home all year long.

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