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K-W-L Creator
Grades
3 - 8
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
K-W-L Creator

This tool allows students to create an online K-W-L chart. Saving capability makes it easy for them to start the chart before reading and then return to it to reflect on what they learned.

Crossword Puzzles
Grades
K - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Crossword Puzzles
This tool allows students to complete crossword puzzles on a variety of grade-appropriate topics, and also create and print their own crossword puzzles.
Compare & Contrast Map
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Compare & Contrast Map
The Compare & Contrast Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for different kinds of comparison essays.
Essay Map
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Essay Map

The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay.

Fractured Fairy Tales
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Writing & Publishing Prose
Fractured Fairy Tales

The Fractured Fairy Tale tool encourages students to create their own fractured fairy tales.

Bio Cube
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Bio Cube

Bio Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography.

Trading Card Creator
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Trading Card Creator

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.

Diamante Poems
Grades
K - 12
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Student Interactive
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Writing Poetry
Diamante Poems

This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.

Word Family Sort
Grades
K - 5
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Student Interactive
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Learning About Language
Word Family Sort

This online activity helps students recognize word patterns by having them sort a series of words into short-vowel word families.

AcrosticPoem
Grades
K - 12
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Student Interactive
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Writing Poetry
Acrostic Poems

This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.

Theme Poems
Grades
K - 5
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Student Interactive
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Writing Poetry
Theme Poems

Formerly known as Shape Poems, this online tool allows elementary students to write poems in various shapes.

Alphabet Organizer
Grades
K - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Alphabet Organizer
Students use this online tool to create an alphabet chart or pages for an alphabet book.
Persuasion Map
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Persuasion Map

The Persuasion Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.

Eye on Idioms
Grades
3 - 5
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Student Interactive
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Learning About Language
Eye on Idioms
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.
Timeline
Grades
K - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Timeline

Students generate descriptive timelines and can include images in the description.

Letter Generator
Grades
K - 12
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Student Interactive
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Writing & Publishing Prose
Letter Generator

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.

Violent Red, Ogre Green, and Delicious White: Expanding Meaning Potential through Media
Grades
K - 8
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Professional Library
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Journal
Violent Red, Ogre Green, and Delicious White: Expanding Meaning Potential through Media
This article reports on the meaning potential of daily access to drawing/writing media for widening and deepening meaning construction.
Exploring the Past through Multigenre Writing
Grades
K - 8
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Professional Library
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Journal
Exploring the Past through Multigenre Writing
Research comes alive when students explore a range of alternate genres instead of writing the traditional research report.
Inquiry at the Window: The Year of the Birds
Grades
K - 8
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Professional Library
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Journal
Inquiry at the Window: The Year of the Birds
This science inquiry in a fourth-grade classroom affirms the importance of observation, questioning, reading, and writing to the inquiry process.
Codeswitching: Tools of Language and Culture Transform the Dialectally Diverse Classroom
Grades
K - 8
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Professional Library
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Journal
Codeswitching: Tools of Language and Culture Transform the Dialectally Diverse Classroom
This article shows how to affirm and draw on the dialect diversity of students to foster the learning of Standard English.

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