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1 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
2 | Grades K – 5 | Student Interactive | Learning About Language
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4 | Grades K – 2 | Student Interactive | Learning About Language
5 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
1 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
2 | Grades 1 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
3 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing Poetry
4 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
5 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing Poetry
1 | Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
The Frog Beyond the Fairy Tale Character: Searching Informational Texts
2 | Grades K – 2 | Student Interactive | Learning About Language
3 | Grades K – 5 | Student Interactive | Learning About Language
4 | Grades 1 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
5 | Grades K – 12 | Calendar Activity | September 21
Lesson Plans
Teaching About Story Structure Using Fairy Tales
From "once upon a time" to "happily ever after," students learn to recognize story structure in fairy tales and create a logical sequence of events when writing original stories.
Student Interactives
The Stapleless Book can be used for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating vocabulary booklets . . . the possibilities are endless!
Combining Read-Alouds With Economics in the Primary Grades
Students learn that what you read in books can really add up when they analyze literary texts for economic concepts.
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.
Picture Match is a matching game that reinforces the concept of beginning-letter and short- and long-vowel sounds.
Writing Poetry with Rebus and Rhyme
This lesson encourages students to use rhyming words to write rebus poetry modeled on rebus books, which substitute pictures for the words that young students cannot yet identify or decode.
Students can generate descriptive timelines that can be plotted with their choice of units of measure (date, time, event, entry, or other).
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Professional Development |  |
Organized around the five essential components of reading instruction, this text lays the groundwork for a comprehensive literacy classroom.
Through looking critically at the underpinnings of "story mapping, a teacher uncovers a contradiction between the author's definition of reading as a constructive process and the reductionist nature of story mapping, which she shows inhibits students' potential to explore a diverse range of personal responses by promoting comprehension over response, uniformity over diversity, and control over freedom.
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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