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Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive
Venn Diagram, 2 Circles
This interactive tool allows students to create Venn Diagrams that contain two overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan
Bingo! Using Environmental Print to Practice Reading
The game Bingo is transformed in this lesson in which students use symbols and images to make connections to environmental print through the use of personalized Bingo cards.
Lesson Plans
"Run, run, as fast as you can." Students use this refrain from The Gingerbread Man to learn letter–sound correspondence. Students use their new skills to write an online story.
Student Interactives
This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.
Teaching About Story Structure Using Fairy Tales
From "once upon a time" to "happily ever after," students learn to recognize story structure in fairy tales and create a logical sequence of events when writing original stories.
The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, flyers, and booklets.
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
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.
Dr. Seuss’s Sound Words: Playing with Phonics and Spelling
Boom! Br-r-ring! Cluck! Moo!—Everywhere you turn, you find exciting sounds. Students use these sounds to write their own poems based on Dr. Seuss's Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?
Using Construct-a-Word, students learn letter-sound correspondence by combining a beginning letter or blend to a word ending to create words.
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This strategy guide series identifies, defines, and provides examples of effective writing strategies and offers a list of resources related to each strategy.
The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (And They’re All Hard Parts)
A practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide for both new and experienced teachers that confronts the challenges of the writing workshop head-on.
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A Color of Her Own: Enhancing Language Arts With Leo Lionni
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