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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
Teaching Short-Vowel Discrimination Using Dr. Seuss Rhymes
Through the contrast of short-vowel patterns and use of Dr. Seuss rhymes, students apply their knowledge of vowel sounds in reading and spelling new words.
Student Interactives
This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.
Hey Diddle, Diddle! Generating Rhymes for Analogy-Based Phonics Instruction
Students practice matching rhyming words, apply phonological awareness to analogy-based phonics, and use the interactive Construct-a-Word to create rhyming words by adding a beginning consonant to a word ending.
Formerly known as Shape Poems, this online tool allows elementary students to write poems in various shapes.
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.
Puzzle Me Words is a fun, educational game for primary students that reinforces letter sounds and how sounds combine to form words.
Literacy Centers: Getting Started
This lesson gives teachers resources and guidance to create reading, listening, computer, and poetry Literacy Centers in their own classrooms.
Word Wizard uses themes from four popular U.S. children's books to create word puzzles that students solve by unscrambling letters and considering related clues.
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Professional Development |  |
Literacy and Leadership Institute With Regie Routman and Colleagues
Join Regie Routman and colleagues for two days of intimate and intelligent professional development guaranteed to positively influence whole-school effectiveness, efficiency, and enjoyment!
Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
In this strategy guide, you will learn how to organize students and classroom topics to encourage a high degree of classroom participation and assist students in developing a conceptual understanding of a topic through the use of the Think-Pair-Share technique.
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Connecting Poetry and Science
Virginia Rojas | Bilingual Teacher | Denton, TX
In my first-grade bilingual class, we studied oceans, and each students chose an animal to research