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\nAll Kinds of Books\n

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\nYoung scholars engage in a variety of book making activities to foster creativity, literacy, and fine-motor skills. In this book-making instructional activity, students author a book about the days of the week, illustrating the...\n
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\n\"Farm\n\n
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\nFarm Life During the Great Depression\n

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\nFifth graders examine the plight of farmers during the Great Depression. In this Nebraska history lesson, 5th graders discuss the era prior to reading the novel Out of the Dust by Karen Heese.\n
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\n\"Mice\n\n
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\nMice Squeak; We Speak\n

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\nStudents create a poster.  In this vocabulary lesson, students use vocabulary words such as squeak, creak, squeal, squawk and quack to identify the sounds and noises of each word.  Students come up with rhyming words and create...\n
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\nGuided Reading: Family Picnic\n

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\nStudents blend phonemes. In this guided reading lesson, students create words by blending isolated phonemes. Students read a book discussing families.\n
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\n\"Batter\n\n
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\nBatter Up\n

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\nStudents explore personal achievement by reading a children's book. In this story analysis lesson, students read the book Batter Up, by Sue Muller Hacking and discuss the main character in the story and the actions that she takes to meet...\n
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\nGuided Reading Lesson: Here Comes the Bus\n

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\nStudents discover basic concepts of print. In this early literacy lesson, students discover basic high frequency words. Students make predictions as they read. Cross-curricular activities provided.\n
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\nGuided Reading: Jump Rope\n

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\nStudents blend phonemes to decode words. In this guided reading lesson plan, students evaluate different comprehension strategies to aid reading.  Students make predictions based on picture clues and use patterned sentences to...\n
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\nGuided Reading: My Horse\n

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\nStudents read patterned sentences. In this guided reading lesson, students use one to one matching and picture clues to aid comprehension. Cross-curricular activities are provided.\n
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\nUnderstanding Genres\n

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\nYoung scholars identify genres of literature. In this literature instructional activity, students read definitions of the various genres. Young scholars choose books and list clues in the texts that help them identify the appropriate genre.\n
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\nDifferent Strokes for Different Folks\n

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\nFourth graders are taken to the media center to review various genre of literature, apply information and concepts to evaluate examples and locate specific genre, and search for materials for reading enjoyment. A good lesson for genre...\n
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\nLiterature: \"Harriet the Spy\" By Louise Fitzhugh\n

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\nStudents examine websites about the book, \"Harriet the Spy.\" There are suggested classroom activities, such as having students keep a journal of their observations. Also includes tips on how to teach students to use descriptive writing.\n
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\nPicture a Nation\n

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\nStudents research immigration data from a specific time period. They create a graphic organizer that depicts the information and share the information with the class.\n
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\nThere's A Nighmare in My Closet\n

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\nFirst graders read \"There's A Nightmare in My Closet.\" They brainstorm what closet monsters could look like. They construct miniature monsters out of construction paper. Students use a variety of different shapes and colors of...\n
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\nSophia: Realistic Fiction: It Could Happen to You\n

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\nA screencast lesson defining the genre, describing the key elements, and providing examples of realistic fiction. [3:38]\n
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\nRead Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Realistic Fiction\n

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\n[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Allie's Basketball Dream by Barbara E. Barber to learn about the characteristics that define realistic fiction. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice,...\n
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\nDe Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Changing Our Street [Pdf]\n

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\n\"Changing Our Street\" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about how the problem of people driving too fast in a neighborhood was solved. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide...\n
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\nDe Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Community Progress [Pdf]\n

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\n\"Community Progress\" is a one page, realistic fiction passage about how students created a mural for their school, which generated lots of attention from the press, parents, and other schools. It is followed by constructed-response...\n
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\nDe Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Flying [Pdf]\n

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\n\"Flying\" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about someone set a goal to be a pilot and worked hard to accomplish that goal. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from...\n
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\nRead Works: A Loud Concert\n

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\n[Free Registration/Login Required] Sound waves are discussed in this realistic fiction article. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...\n
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\nRead Works: Finding the Office\n

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\n[Free Registration/Login Required] This realistic fiction dialogue shares what happens when a note is given to a student. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...\n
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\nRead Works: First Grade Chooses a Snack\n

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\n[Free Registration/Login Required] This realistic fiction piece simulates a class voting on their favorite healthy snack. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...\n
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\nRead Works: A Tornado Is Coming\n

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\n[Free Registration/Login Required] This realistic fiction passage tells the story of a family taking cover after learning that a tornado is nearby. This passage shares basic facts about tornadoes. This passage is a stand-alone curricular...\n
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\nDe Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Community Progress [Pdf]\n

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\nClass Flow: Comprehension and Vocabulary Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night\n

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\n[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is correlated to Houghton Mifflin Reading, Grade 2 and is a guideline for comprehension and vocabulary for Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night by Cynthia Rylant. Interactive vocabulary...\n
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