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Grades
K - 2
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All About Me! Use Photos to Write Stories

Help children use favorite photos to write a homemade memory book.

Grades
3 - 6
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Books Will Take You There!

While enjoying a book that features a journey, children write postcards from the perspective of the main character for each stop along the trip.

Grades
K - 2
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Cooking and Creating in the Kitchen

After reading If You Give a Moose a Muffin, have a "Muffin Party"! Children will write invitations, follow a recipe, and enjoy sharing their homemade muffins.

Grades
K - 2
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Take a Closer Look: Write Around the Room

With a piece of paper and a pen, kids can learn anywhere! This activity gets kids writing, looking closely at letters, and learning some new words in any room of the house.

Grades
3 - 8
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Amazing Biographies: Writing About People Who Change the World

After reading about historical figures and other important people that have changed the world, children choose someone that they consider to be "amazing"—either someone they've heard about or someone they know—and create a book page that highlights this person.

Grades
7 - 12
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It's Raining Cats and Dogs! Make a Children's Book about the Weather

Kids learn about weather sayings throughout history while writing and illustrating a book for younger children.

Grades
4 - 8
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Unveiling Idioms: A Game of Concentration

Brainstorm popular expressions with friends and family, then explore their meanings through game play and writing/drawing/cut-and-paste activities.

Grades
3 - 8
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Follow the Word Trail: Organize a Treasure Hunt

Create a treasure hunt out of word-puzzle clues hidden around the home or yard.

Grades
3 - 8
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Send a Smile: Make a Card for a Special Occasion

Everyone loves getting a greeting card, especially if it's homemade. Make a funny or thoughtful greeting card or invitation with pictures and a poem, joke, or riddle.

Grades
K - 6
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The Natural World as Inspiration: An Outdoor Art Show

Children incorporate materials from outdoors with paints or crayons to create pieces of art to display on their clotheslines, fences, or porches for a neighborhood art show.

Grades
9 - 12
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Special Memories & Significant Moments: Making an Electronic Scrapbook

Using a variety of artifacts, mementos, and technologies, teens can create an electronic scrapbook of their most important moments in high school.

Grades
9 - 12
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Children's Book Project

This activity can help teens create picture books that a teen caregiver can then share with children.

Grades
6 - 8
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Finding Poetry in Pleasure Reading

After reading a book or magazine, children and teens can choose a section and transform it into what's known as a "found poem."

Grades
6 - 8
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Write Letters to Friends and Family

Invite young adults to write letters to classmates, postcards from travels, and e-mails to family and friends.

Grades
6 - 8
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Have You Seen the Movie Yet?

Before seeing a film based on a book, classic or contemporary, children can learn about filmmaking and create their own scenes based on their favorite moments from the book.

Grades
3 - 5
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Creating Family Timelines

Children can interview family members and make an illustrated timeline of the most important family events and memories.

In 1870, the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad was completed.
Grades
7 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Historical Figure & Event
In 1870, the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad was completed.
Students access the National Park Service website and look at the webpage "The Last Spikes." Students explore different accounts of what happened as the railroad neared completion and discuss the nature of ceremonies.
On this day in 1800, Congress approved the purchase of books to start the Library of Congress.
Grades
7 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Historical Figure & Event
On this day in 1800, Congress approved the purchase of books to start the Library of Congress.
Students practice and refine research skills by visiting the Library of Congress website and conducting a research project.
Paul Revere began his famous midnight ride in 1775.
Grades
4 - 8
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Calendar Activity
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Historical Figure & Event
Paul Revere began his famous midnight ride in 1775.
Through the study of Paul Revere, students learn about primary source documents while researching their family histories, with which they create and compare their family trees.
Grades
K - 6
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Gary Soto, poet and children's writer, was born on this date in 1952.
Using one of Soto's stories, students take part in share stories about their families, describe their street/neighborhood, or compose an acrostic poem using the Acrostic Poems interactive tool.

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