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Grades K – 8 | Strategy Guide
Tracking and Supporting Student Learning with Kidwatching
In this strategy guide, you’ll learn how to use kidwatching to track and support student learning. Teachers observe and take notes on students’ understanding of skills and concepts and then use the observations to determine effective strategies for future instruction.
Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive
Alphabet Organizer
Students can use this online tool to print an alphabet chart or pages for an alphabet book.
Lesson Plans
Descriptive Writing and the 100th Day of School
Students write descriptions of 100th day bottles they create at home, write clues about their bottles for a guessing game, practice descriptive writing, and create a class book.
Protecting Our Precious Planet: Sharing the Message of Earth Day
Students discover that they can make a world of difference when they participate in the online Earth Day bag program.
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.
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.
The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution.
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.
The Stapleless Book can be used for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating vocabulary booklets . . . the possibilities are endless!
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During choral reading, students read together orally. Repeated, supported reading helps students read with greater expression and read unfamiliar words with greater ease.
Literature, Literacy, and Comprehension Strategies in the Elementary School
Joy F. Moss focuses on literature units structured around read-aloud/think-aloud group sessions in which students collaborate to construct meaning.
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A Color of Her Own: Enhancing Language Arts With Leo Lionni
Marie Kelly Cowgill | First Grade Teacher | Newark, DE
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