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Grades 3 – 12 | Calendar Activity
Today is World Poetry Day.
Students read and respond to Billy Collins' poem "Introduction to Poetry." Students then write about a favorite poem and imagine the perfect way to read it.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Solving the Math Curse: Reading and Writing Math Word Problems
Students’ reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills add up as they decipher word problems and use what they’ve learned to solve a crossword puzzle.
Lesson Plans
Figurative Language: Teaching Idioms
It's raining cats and dogs! Students explore figurative language through read-alouds, teacher modeling, and student-centered activities, further developing their understanding of the literal versus the metaphorical translations of idioms.
Student Interactives
The Compare & Contrast Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for different kinds of comparison essays.
My Family Traditions: A Class Book and a Potluck Lunch
After analyzing Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia by Carmen Lomas Garza, students create a class book with artwork and information about their ancestry, traditions, and recipes, followed by a potluck lunch.
Students can generate descriptive timelines that can be plotted with their choice of units of measure (date, time, event, entry, or other).
Literature as a Jumping Off Point for Nonfiction Inquiry
Students use text sets to research a topic inspired by a fiction book they have read. A text set is a collection of multiple text genres with a single focus.
The Webbing Tool provides a free-form graphic organizer for activities that ask students to pursue hypertextual thinking and writing.
Creating Family Timelines: Graphing Family Memories and Significant Events
Students interview family members, and then create graphic family timelines based on important and memorable family events.
This interactive tool allows students to create Venn Diagrams that contain two overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically.
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Reading and Writing Nonfiction Genres
This practical, hands-on text shows how to teach nonfiction to elementary students.
"Honoring Children’s Names and, Therefore, Their Identities"
In this issue, we are excited to present diverse voices—teachers, family members, children—to help us answer that question. Their stories reveal ways that communities of practice can positively or negatively affect students’ and families’ views of themselves and, in the process, children’s lives as learners.
