Students will eat up this lesson about oranges as they practice the skills that help them investigate and make detailed observations for descriptive purposes.
![Cosmic Oranges: Observation and Inquiry Through Descriptive Writing and Art](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1935.jpg?h=c12a516a&itok=VrNr3UZE)
Cosmic Oranges: Observation and Inquiry Through Descriptive Writing and Art
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Student of the Day: Create Sound/Letter Understanding With Names
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Recurring Lesson
Name games make learning letters fun and interactive in this lesson where students get to know more about each other as they spell out their classmates' names.
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Can You Convince Me? Developing Persuasive Writing
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Through a classroom game and resource handouts, students learn about the techniques used in persuasive oral arguments and apply them to independent persuasive writing activities.
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Exploring Compare and Contrast Structure in Expository Texts
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students build their understanding of the terms compare and contrast by participating in class discussions, using Internet resources, working collaboratively, and by visually representing information in a Venn diagram.
![My World of Words: Building Vocabulary Lists](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1942_0.jpg?h=0f7f6233&itok=I8IfZa8x)
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My World of Words: Building Vocabulary Lists
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Recurring Lesson
Working in small groups, students select vocabulary words and research their meanings. In a culminating activity that uses text and illustration, each student creates a "My World of Words Journal."
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Flying to Freedom: Tar Beach and The People Could Fly
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students look to the past and use historical context to compare and contrast two characters from folktales.
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Teaching Science Through Picture Books: A Rainforest Lesson
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students read Welcome to the Green House, use note-taking strategies, find patterns in text structure, learn vocabulary in context, and write efferent and affective responses to the text.
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A Journal for Corduroy: Responding to Literature
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Recurring Lesson
Connect home and school, literature and life, as students take a storybook character home with them and take turns writing stories about his visit.
![Teaching Reading with YA Literature: Complex Texts, Complex Lives](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/25_2.jpg?h=1c3b45a9&itok=8dl9Azws)
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Teaching Reading with YA Literature: Complex Texts, Complex Lives
6 - 12
Professional Library
| Book
This book is designed to help teachers develop their own version of YA pedagogy and a vision for teaching YA lit in the middle and secondary classroom.