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Flip Book
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Writing & Publishing Prose
Flip Book
The Flip Book is designed to allow users to type and illustrate tabbed flip books up to ten pages long. Students and teachers can use the flip book for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating question and answer booklets.
Noah Webster published his <em>American Dictionary of the English Language</em>  in 1828.
Grades
2 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Historical Figure & Event
Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828.

After dividing students into small groups, students play a variation of the game Balderdash to celebrate the publication of Webster's dictionary.

In 1564, William Shakespeare was born on this day.
Grades
1 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
In 1564, William Shakespeare was born on this day.

Based on grade level, students learn about rhyming structure, experiment with the Shakespearean Insult Kit, or study scenes from Othello and watch an adaptation of that scene from the movie O.

Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
Grades
3 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Historical Figure & Event
Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.

Students play a variation of the game Balderdash to practice vocabulary.

Grades
K - 8
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Let's Go On A Poetry Walk!

The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and you're surrounded by brilliant shades of green! Observe and collect sensory images from nature and use the sights, sounds, smells, and textures to create original nature poetry.

Grades
3 - 5
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Star Light, Star Bright: Reading and Writing about the Nighttime Sky

Children watch the nighttime sky come alive as the read a book about fascinating elements in the night and write a poem/story about the things they learn!

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