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Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
ReadWriteThink Webbing Tool

The Webbing Tool provides a free-form graphic organizer for activities that ask students to pursue hypertextual thinking and writing.

Word Mover
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Writing Poetry
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.

Word Matrix
Grades
6 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Learning About Language
Word Matrix

Explore the similarities and differences among words typically considered synonyms with this tool that allows middle- and secondary-level students organize groups of words by connotation on one axis and by register on another.

Hero's Journey
Grades
6 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Inquiry & Analysis
Hero's Journey

Students can use this tool to learn about the elements of the hero's journey, analyze a text that follows the hero's journey pattern, or start creating a hero story of their own.

Profile Publisher
Grades
6 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Writing & Publishing Prose
Profile Publisher

Students use the Profile Publisher to draft online social networking profiles, yearbook profiles, and newspaper or magazine profiles for themselves, other real or fictional characters.

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.

Postcard Creator
Grades
K - 8
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Student Interactive
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Writing & Publishing Prose
Postcard Creator

The Postcard Creator helps students learn to identify all the typical parts of a postcard, and then generate their own postcard messages by typing information into letter templates. After printing their texts, students can illustrate the front of their postcards in a variety of ways, including drawing, collage, and stickers.

Book Cover Creator
Grades
K - 8
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Student Interactive
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Writing & Publishing Prose
Book Cover Creator

The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write 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.
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.
The Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children is announced today.
Grades
K - 7
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Calendar Activity
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Literacy-Related Event
The Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children is announced today.

Students read and discuss an award-winning book before writing their own story that demonstrates compassion.

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.

Author Jacqueline Woodson was born today.
Grades
5 - 9
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Author Jacqueline Woodson was born today.
Students read the poem "February 12, 1963" and write a poem to commemorate their own birthday.
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 E.B. White was born on this day in 1899.
Grades
K - 5
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Author E.B. White was born on this day in 1899.
Author E.B. White, most well-known for his famous children's book, Charlotte's Web, received high acclaim and awards for many of his works of fiction.
President Barack Obama was born today in 1961.
Grades
7 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Historical Figure & Event
President Barack Obama was born today in 1961.
Students are introduced to a passage by President Barack Obama in his book Dreams from My Father and are encouraged to engage in an examination of the ways they are portrayed by the media.
Poet and author Pat Mora was born on this day in 1942.
Grades
7 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Poet and author Pat Mora was born on this day in 1942.
Students study and write extended metaphors through the use of Pat Mora's book.
In 1931, Toni Morrison was born.
Grades
3 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
In 1931, Toni Morrison was born.
After retelling a familiar fable, students discover the differences in one of Morrison's retellings of a fable.

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