This lesson introduces Family Message Journals—a teacher-tested tool for encouraging family involvement and supporting writing to reflect and to learn.

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

Students won't miss a beat in this reading fluency lesson that combines music and poetry.

Variable vowels are the focus of this lesson; students use nursery rhymes and ow to study how vowels can change their sounds according to different spelling patterns.