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Building Classroom Community Through the Exploration of Acrostic Poetry

Building classroom community is one of the most challenging yet most important tasks for any teacher, and it needs to be reinforced frequently throughout the....

Opening the Door for Reading: Sharing Favorite Texts to Build Community

Use literacy skills to make connections among those in your classroom with this lesson that focuses on building classroom community by sharing favorite texts....

Acrostic Poetry Booklist

This printable teacher resource accompanies the ReadWriteThink lesson titled "Building Classroom Community Through the Exploration of Acrostic....

Planning for Program Sustainability

This resource discusses seven key building blocks community literacy programs can use to plan for sustainability, from beginning with a mission and goals to....

Catching the Bug for Reading Through Interactive Read-Alouds

This lesson uses an interactive read-aloud of Miss Bindergarten Stays Home From Kindergarten by Joseph Slate to help kindergarten and first-grade....

Creating Class Rules: A Beginning to Creating Community

This simple shared-writing activity can establish a foundation for ongoing community-building in the classroom. It engages students in thinking about the....

Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel

This collection of essays by classroom teachers demonstrates how to pair graphic novels with classic literature (including both canonical and YA lit) in ways....

Book Clubs: Reading for Fun

Three fourth-grade girls—Angela, Janie, and Su Ling, of varying reading abilities—had decided to read Lois Lowry's Number the Stars together. They met....

Helping Welfare Parents Move into the Workforce

This resource suggests strategies that family literacy practitioners and others can apply to help parents start on the path to self-sufficiency and includes....

31 Days to Better Reading!

Find fun literacy-building activities to do with young children (K-3). Each activity helps a child build one or more important literacy....


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