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61. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Charlotte is Wise, Patient, and Caring: Adjectives and Character Traits
    Students find examples of adjectives in a shared reading. Then students "become" major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using powerful adjectives.
62. 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.
    
63. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Choosing Clear and Varied Dialogue Tags: A Minilesson
    In this minilesson, students explore the use of dialogue tags such as "he said" or "she answered" in picture books and novels, discussing their purpose, form, and style.
64. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Choosing One Word: Summarizing Shel Silverstein's "Sick"
    Students select what they believe to be the most important word in a text that they have read and justify their choice using examples from the text.
65. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    Close Reading: The Assessment-Instruction Connection
    This interactive Web seminar will consider ways that thoughtful formative assessment can ensure that students are adequately supported in close reading, without removing the productive struggle of working with challenging texts.
66. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Collaborating on a Class Book: Exploring Before-During-After Sequences
    Students and the teacher produce a class book through a group-writing activity, focusing on a basic before-during-after sequence of events.
67. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    Collaborative Conversations: Meeting Speaking and Listening Standards
    This one-hour Web seminar will focus on the instructional routines that ensure that students develop the habits necessary to engage with their peers.
68. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Collaborative Stories 1: Prewriting and Drafting
    Students hone their teamwork skills and play off each other's writing strengths as they participate in prewriting activities for a story to be written collaboratively by the whole class.
69. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Collaborative Stories 2: Revising
    Using a collaborative story written by students, the teacher leads a shared-revising activity to help students consider content when revising, with students participating in the marking of text revisions.
70. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Color Poems—Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting
    Students use their five senses as a prewriting tool to guide their poetry writing as they compose free-form poems using imagery to describe a color.

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