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Grades 3 – 12 | Mobile App
Word Mover 
Word Mover allows children and teens to create "found poetry" by choosing from word banks and existing famous works; additionally, users can add new words to create a piece of poetry by moving/manipulating the text.
Grades 7 – 9 | Lesson Plan
Finding Solutions to Food Waste: Persuasion in a Digital World
Using various reading strategies and resources, students explore the issue of food waste. They also create persuasive arguments and blog posts examining this topic.
Lesson Plans
Making Personal and Cultural Connections Using A Girl Named Disaster
Struggling to survive is one of the many themes explored in A Girl Named Disaster. As students read, they look for connections between themselves and the main character, Nhamo.
Student Interactives
The Letter Generator is a useful tool for students to learn the parts of a business or friendly letter and then compose and print letters for both styles of correspondence.
Slipping, Sliding, Tumbling: Reinforcing Cause and Effect Through Diamante Poems
Writing, revising, and publishing are just a few of the tasks students will complete in order to take their cause-and-effect diamante poems from an idea to a reality.
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.
What Am I? Teaching Poetry through Riddles
Students explore figurative language in poetry by reading and writing riddle poems.
Bio Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography.
Weaving the Threads: Integrating Poetry Annotation and Web Technology
Students read a poem by a Native American, explore Native American culture and then create a Website that explains words and phrases from the poem.
The Webbing Tool provides a free-form graphic organizer for activities that ask students to pursue hypertextual thinking and writing.
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Professional Development |  |
Supporting Students As They Read Independently
This guide includes basic theory and practice for supporting students reading independently, which is the last instructional context along the gradual release of responsibility.
On Demand Web Seminar Package: Close Reading
Take the guesswork out of choosing the best on demand Web seminars while building your professional library on close reading.
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Community Stories |  |
The Pitfalls of Reader Response
Kristin Sample | English Faculty | Austin, TX
I was doing some volunteer work recently with Women’s Storybook Project and found myself in the midst of retired and currently working educators
