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Grades K – 2 | Calendar Activity
Read Across America Day celebrates Dr. Seuss.
After sharing The Cat in the Hat and other patterned books with students, groups brainstorm sets of rhyming words and crate a story using these words.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan
Action ABC's: Learning Vocabulary With Verbs
Creating an illustrated alphabet book of action words, from attack to zap, reinforces the definition of verbs as it stretches and expands students' vocabulary.
Lesson Plans
Descriptive Writing and the 100th Day of School
Students write descriptions of 100th day bottles they create at home, write clues about their bottles for a guessing game, practice descriptive writing, and create a class book.
Student Interactives
This interactive tool allows students to create Venn Diagrams that contain two overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically.
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.
Students can generate descriptive timelines that can be plotted with their choice of units of measure (date, time, event, entry, or other).
Using Children’s Natural Curiosity to Lead to Descriptive Writing
Inspired by the book It Begins with an A, kindergarten students are invited to turn their curiosity and guesswork into a class book, complete with illustrated objects and descriptive language
The Wonder of Leo Lionni: Increasing Comprehension with Prediction Statements
This lesson focuses on the strategy of "wonder" statements, asking students to stop, think, and write about what may be happening in the text periodically as they read a story.
Word Wizard uses themes from four popular U.S. children's books to create word puzzles that students solve by unscrambling letters and considering related clues.
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Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom
Katie Wood Ray explains in practical terms the theoretical underpinnings of how elementary and middle school students learn to write from their reading.
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A Color of Her Own: Enhancing Language Arts With Leo Lionni
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