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1 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
2 | Grades K – 5 | Student Interactive | Learning About Language
3 | Grades 1 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
4 | Grades 3 – 5 | Printout | Assessment Tool
Editing Checklist for Self- and Peer Editing
5 | Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
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 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
5 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
1 | Grades K – 5 | Student Interactive | Learning About Language
2 | Grades 1 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
3 | Grades K – 12 | Calendar Activity | September 21
Today is the International Day of Peace.
4 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
5 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing Poetry
Lesson Plans
Sort, Hunt, Write: A Weekly Spelling Program
It's easy to make spelling fun. Using a variety of activities from sorting to using words in context will help deepen students' understanding of word patterns.
Student Interactives
Formerly known as Shape Poems, this online tool allows elementary students to write poems in various shapes.
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.
The activity includes a series of exercises, in which students view the literal representations of idioms and then examine the metaphorical meanings of the idioms.
Compiling Poetry Collections and a Working Definition of Poetry
This unit introduces students to a variety of poetic forms and elements, as they compile their own collections of poetry.
This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a variety of topics such as a character in a book, a person or place from history, or even a physical object. An excellent tool to for summarizing or as a prewriting exercise for original stories.
Seasonal Haiku: Writing Poems to Celebrate Any Season
After listening to haiku poetry, students use seasonal descriptive words to write their own haiku, following the traditional format. They then publish their poems by mounting them on illustrated backgrounds.
The Fractured Fairy Tale tool encourages students to create their own fractured fairy tales.
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Response to Intervention Webinar Series: Core Instruction
IRA Commission (and participants) reviewed the key elements of good first instruction and framework for classroom literacy instruction K-6.
3 Strategies for Reaching Language Learners in Literacy Workshops
Ideas will be explored and explained that you can use tomorrow to strengthen your instruction of language learners in your classroom.
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ReadWriteThink: A Framework for Success
Tiffany Clark | 3rd/4th Grade Teacher | Urbana, IL
Many teachers feel like there’s just not enough time in the day to craft profound lessons, answer all the questions, squeeze in all the state standards, and differentiate the curriculum for every student’s needs