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Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Flying to Freedom: Tar Beach and The People Could Fly
Students look to the past and use historical context to compare and contrast two characters from folktales.
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Recurring Lesson
A Journal for Corduroy: Responding to Literature
Connect home and school, literature and life, as students take a storybook character home with them and take turns writing stories about his visit.
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
The Reading Performance: Understanding Fluency Through Oral Interpretation
Students discuss prosody, gain a new appreciation for literature intended for oral performance, and participate in activities that instill the value of technology in shaping their appreciation of literature.
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Text Talk: Julius, the Baby of the World

Students are asked to "talk" with Kevin Henkes' Julius, the Baby of the World by using open-ended questions to help them interpret the language, plot, and characters of the story.

Poetry: A Feast to Form Fluent Readers
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Poetry: A Feast to Form Fluent Readers
Students improve their reading fluency by selecting a poem online to perform in class.
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.

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.

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.
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.
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.
Celebrate El Día de Los Niños/El Día de Los Libros (Children's Day/Book Day)!
Grades
3 - 8
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Calendar Activity
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Holiday & School Celebration
Celebrate El Día de Los Niños/El Día de Los Libros (Children's Day/Book Day)!

Using the Book Cover Creator, students write and share their own multilingual stories.

Today is Benjamin Franklin's birthday.
Grades
1 - 6
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Calendar Activity
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Historical Figure & Event
Today is Benjamin Franklin's birthday.
Students discuss Benjamin Franklin's contributions to postal history, investigate the roles of the Postmaster General, and write letters to their classmates using the Letter Generator.

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