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Grades
3 - 6
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Books Will Take You There!

While enjoying a book that features a journey, children write postcards from the perspective of the main character for each stop along the trip.

Grades
K - 2
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Cooking and Creating in the Kitchen

After reading If You Give a Moose a Muffin, have a "Muffin Party"! Children will write invitations, follow a recipe, and enjoy sharing their homemade muffins.

Grades
K - 2
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Take a Closer Look: Write Around the Room

With a piece of paper and a pen, kids can learn anywhere! This activity gets kids writing, looking closely at letters, and learning some new words in any room of the house.

Grades
1 - 4
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Become a Young Archaeologist

Want to visit a museum without leaving your computer? Virtually dig for famous historical artifacts from around the world found in the British Museum.

Grades
3 - 8
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Amazing Biographies: Writing About People Who Change the World

After reading about historical figures and other important people that have changed the world, children choose someone that they consider to be "amazing"—either someone they've heard about or someone they know—and create a book page that highlights this person.

Grades
3 - 8
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Follow the Word Trail: Organize a Treasure Hunt

Create a treasure hunt out of word-puzzle clues hidden around the home or yard.

Grades
3 - 8
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Send a Smile: Make a Card for a Special Occasion

Everyone loves getting a greeting card, especially if it's homemade. Make a funny or thoughtful greeting card or invitation with pictures and a poem, joke, or riddle.

Grades
K - 6
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The Natural World as Inspiration: An Outdoor Art Show

Children incorporate materials from outdoors with paints or crayons to create pieces of art to display on their clotheslines, fences, or porches for a neighborhood art show.

Grades
3 - 5
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Creating Comics and Cartoons!

Using published comics and cartoons as examples, children can create their own while playing with images and language.

Grades
3 - 5
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Mail Time!

Sort through your junk mail and talk about what you find for a fun literacy activity before recycling it!

Grades
3 - 5
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Creating Family Timelines

Children can interview family members and make an illustrated timeline of the most important family events and memories.

Grades
3 - 5
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Exploring the Library

Plan a visit to a library to discover more about this magical place.

Grades
3 - 5
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Let's Play a Game

Playing board games or card games can be a fun activity, so why not make your own?

Grades
3 - 5
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Fairy Tales and You

Children will draw on their knowledge of story structure and fairy tales to write their own.

Grades
K - 2
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Reading Signs and Labels

These activities will have children reading signs, logos, brand names, and other words all over their home and community.

Grades
K - 2
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Let's Play Bingo!

Work together, create a bingo board that can be played while walking around town, going to the zoo or a museum, or traveling on a vacation.

Grades
K - 2
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Let's Go on a Reading Hunt!

In this activity, children go on a hunt for places where they can read and enjoy books: on a family road trip, at the pool, at the doctor's office.

Grades
K - 2
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Note Writing at a Message Center

In this activity, children write short everyday notes, to remind, plan, request, or compliment others.

<em>Where the Sidewalk Ends</em> by Shel Silverstein was published in 1974.
Grades
1 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein was published in 1974.
Students are introduced to a Silverstein verse and asked for their impressions. They then draw that they imagine when they read one of his lines and then write a line or two to continue the passage.
Grades
K - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Holiday & School Celebration
Today is the International Day of Peace.
Students brainstorm a list of current conflicts and why people fight. Groups discuss and present possible solutions and create posters that promote their particular solution.

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