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Grades 3 – 12 | Mobile App
Word Mover 
Word Mover allows children and teens to create "found poetry" by choosing from word banks and existing famous works; additionally, users can add new words to create a piece of poetry by moving/manipulating the text.
Grades 7 – 9 | Lesson Plan
Finding Solutions to Food Waste: Persuasion in a Digital World
Using various reading strategies and resources, students explore the issue of food waste. They also create persuasive arguments and blog posts examining this topic.
Lesson Plans
Robert Frost Prompts the Poet in You
Students will find their inner poet laureate in this lesson that involves writing a poem in the style of Robert Frost.
Student Interactives
Bio Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography.
With e-pals, students develop real-life writing and social experiences, learn the format of a friendly letter and parts of an e-mail message, and discover other cultures, languages, and geographic areas.
The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, and flyers.
Students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.
The Stapleless Book can be used for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating vocabulary booklets . . . the possibilities are endless!
Exploring Change through Allegory and Poetry
Students read an example of allegory, review literary concepts, complete literary elements maps and plot diagrams, create a pictorial allegory, and write diamante poems related to the theme of change.
The Compare & Contrast Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for different kinds of comparison essays.
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Professional Development |  |
Paraphrasing: An Effective Comprehension Strategy
In this article, the author explains what paraphrasing is and how it can increase student's comprehension.
Spelling in Use: Looking Closely at Spelling in Whole Language Classrooms
Laminack and Wood describe, in accessible and lively prose, both the theoretical foundations and the practical details of whole language classrooms.
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Community Stories |  |
The Pitfalls of Reader Response
Kristin Sample | English Faculty | Austin, TX
I was doing some volunteer work recently with Women’s Storybook Project and found myself in the midst of retired and currently working educators
