Students engage in a rich study of vocabulary words from the song "America the Beautiful," using music and art.

Using published writers' texts and students' own writing, this unit explores emotions that are associated with the artful and deliberate use of commas, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points (end-stop marks of punctuation).

Students bring the print-rich environment of the community into the classroom through the use of environmental print, enabling emergent readers to delight in the realization that they are indeed readers.

Students write authentic newspaper stories, including learning about various aspects of newspapers, such as writing an article, online articles, newspaper reading habits, and layout and design techniques.

Through interactive writing, students work together and then independently to create invitation letters for a group of their peers and their families.

Students move from modeled to independent comprehension of fiction stories by using texts by Jan Brett and interactive tools that demonstrate their comprehension.

Past meets present in this lesson in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.

Students across the board will get a kick out of researching a historical figure from the American Revolution to create an acrostic poem.

Students use the faces and places they learn about in their research to write a biography about a contemporary or historical figure.