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CD/DVD Cover Creator
Grades
K - 12
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Student Interactive
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Writing & Publishing Prose
CD/DVD Cover Creator

The CD/DVD Cover Creator allows users to type and illustrate CD and DVD covers and related booklets for liner notes and other information. Students can use the tool to create covers for books, music, and films that they explored as well as to create covers for media they compose individually or as a class.

ReadWriteThink Notetaker
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
ReadWriteThink Notetaker

Useful for a wide variety of reading and writing activities, this outlining tool allows students to organize up to five levels of information.

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.
Plot Diagram
Grades
1 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Plot Diagram

The Plot Diagram is an organizational tool focusing on a pyramid or triangular shape, which is used to map the events in a story. This mapping of plot structure allows readers and writers to visualize the key features of stories.

Graphic Map
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Graphic Map

The Graphic Map assists teachers and students in reading and writing activities by charting the high and low points related to a particular item or group of items, such as events during a day or chapters in a book.

Printing Press
Grades
K - 12
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Student Interactive
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Writing & Publishing Prose
Printing Press

The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, and flyers.

Comparison and Contrast Guide
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Comparison and Contrast Guide
The Comparison and Contrast Guide outlines the characteristics of the genre and provides direct instruction on the methods of organizing, gathering ideas, and writing comparison and contrast essays.
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Circle Plot Diagram
The Circle Plot Diagram can be used as a prewriting graphic organizer for students writing original stories with a circular plot structure as well as a postreading organizer used to explore the text structures in a book.
Hints about Print
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Inquiry & Analysis
Hints about Print

Hints about Print demonstrates the process of evaluating a nonfiction print resource to determine its appropriateness for a research project.

Sharon Draper was born on this day in 1952.
Grades
5 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Sharon Draper was born on this day in 1952.
Students read a book from one of Draper's trilogies and then meet to discuss their book with students have read the other two books.
Celebrate Digital Learning Day today.
Grades
K - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Literacy-Related Event
Celebrate Digital Learning Day today.

Students reflect on recent learning and the role digital tools and media have played in supporting or enhancing it.

Author Matt de la Peña was born today.
Grades
8 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Author Matt de la Peña was born today.
Students use an essay by de la Peña as a model for writing their own literacy autobiography.
Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was born today.
Grades
4 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was born today.

Students examine the painting that inspired Sondheim's Pulitzer-prize winning musical and then create a story of their own based on image they choose.

Celebrate John Venn's Birthday!
Grades
K - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Historical Figure & Event
Celebrate John Venn's Birthday!
Students celebrate the birth of English logician, philosopher, and creator of the Venn Diagram by building community within the classroom by comparing and contrasting likes, dislikes, and characteristics about one another.
WorldReadAloudDay
Grades
4 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Literacy-Related Event
Today is World Read Aloud Day.

Students celebrate the power of words by reading aloud to their classmates and spreading the word of global literacy to their friends and family.

Author Laurie Halse Anderson was born today.
Grades
9 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Author Laurie Halse Anderson was born today.
Laurie Halse Anderson, the New York Times-bestselling author who is known for tackling tough subjects with humor and sensitivity, was born on this day in 1961.
Playwright August Wilson was born in 1945.
Grades
9 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Playwright August Wilson was born in 1945.
Students use the Timeline Tool and Drama Map to create a decade-by-decade record and play of their community's history.
Author Tim O'Brien was born on this day.
Grades
9 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Author Tim O'Brien was born on this day.
After reading O'Brien's story "A True War Story" from The Things They Carried, students choose a powerful event from their own lives and map it using the Timeline Tool. They then create a fictional version of this event.
Memorial Day is observed in the United States today.
Grades
5 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Holiday & School Celebration
Memorial Day is observed in the United States today.

Observed on the last Monday of May, Memorial Day honors the men and women who died while serving in the United States military. In addition to having celebrations with family and friends, many people visit cemeteries and memorials and place flags on the grave sites of fallen servicemen and women.

Pedro Albizu Campos leads the Puerto Rican Independence movement.
Grades
6 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Historical Figure & Event
Pedro Albizu Campos leads the Puerto Rican Independence movement.
After learning about the story of Pedro Albizu Campos and his commitment to Puerto Rican independence, students research and share their learning about another nationalist figure from around the world.

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