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81. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing
    Trading Card Creator
    This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a variety of topics such as a character in a book, a person or place from history, or even a physical object. An excellent tool to for summarizing or as a prewriting exercise for original stories.
82. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Game & Tool
    Trading Card Creator
    Children can use Trading Card Creators to answer questions about a book character's appearance and actions, and to probe for thoughts, feelings, and motivations.
83. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Mobile App  |  Organizing & Summarizing
    Trading Cards
    Invigorate students' writing with an interactive tool that allows them to demonstrate their comprehension using a mobile app.
84. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 3  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Two Thumbs Up! Get Students Writing and Publishing Book Reviews
    Students evaluate book reviews written by other children, discussing their components and effectiveness, and write reviews of favorite books to record on video or post online.
85. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using Historical Fiction to Learn About the Civil War
    Students in grades 4 and 5 discuss inferential comprehension and visualization as they use a think-aloud questioning strategy to develop a deeper understanding of a historical novel.
86. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Using Literature to Enhance Writing Instruction: A Guide for K-5 Teachers
    This practical text outlines various ways to enhance and enrich writing instruction through the use of children's literature.
87. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using Writing and Role-Play to Engage the Reluctant Writer
    What does the world look like through a javelina's eyes? Students become javelinas in this lesson when they analyze a character and write from his or her perspective.
88. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 14
    Valentine's Day is today!
    Students find examples of figurative language and write an original example of each device, illustrate, and share them with the class.
89. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 12
    Walter Dean Myers, author of the Printz Award-winning novel Monster, was born in 1937.
    Students discuss how the form of a film script affects the story, why the author may have selected this writing style, and write a story using a similar format.
90. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Activity & Project
    Write a Recipe
    Use recipes to help children practice reading and writing step-by-step instructions. Have them sample the results to see how they did.

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