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Grades 1 – 2 | Lesson Plan
Amelia Bedelia Up Close! Closely Reading a Classic Story
Through a close reading of Amelia Bedelia, students reread the material to discuss text-dependent questions, promoting deep thinking about the text and its characters.
Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive
Alphabet Organizer 
Students use this online tool to create an alphabet chart or pages for an alphabet book.
Lesson Plans
Learning About Word Families with Click, Clack, Moo
Using text from Doreen Cronin's Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type as shared readings, first-grade students learn word families and how to decode new words in a word family.
Student Interactives
ABC Match is a game that has students practice letter-recognition fluency while honing their memories. Students match initial letters with pictures, playing either with a timer or without.
Phonics Through Literature: Learning About the Letter M
Students learn about phonics by focusing on the letter m and participating in an integrated array of activities, including reading, writing, mathematics, music, art, and technology.
The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, and flyers.
A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
Children find favorite words, phrases, and sentences from familiar stories. Working together, they combine their words and phrases to create a poem. The poem is then shared as performance poetry.
Formerly known as Shape Poems, this online tool allows elementary students to write poems in various shapes.
Acrostic Poems: All About Me and My Favorite Things
Students create acrostic poems using their names and the names of things that are important to them.
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Professional Development |  |
Webinar on the President's Budget
This webinar addresses the update on the President's budget (to be released the week of February 14th) and an update on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (the current NCLB).
In this series of Strategy Guides, you'll learn about different methods and activities to encourage inquiry-based learning in your classroom.
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Poetry Writing: Try Partnerships!
Marci McGowan | First-Grade Teacher | Spring Lake, NJ
When I read Traci Gardner's Composing Cinquain Poems: A Quick-Writing Activity, I knew I had found just the right culminating activity for our unit on poetry and pattern writing
