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WorldReadAloudDay
Grades
4 - 12
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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.

Poet William Blake was born in 1757.
Grades
5 - 12
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Author & Text
Poet William Blake was born in 1757.
As a class, students brainstorm abstract concepts and personify that concept through a drawing or story told about the character who personifies that concept.

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