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9/11 Memorial & Museum

National September 11 Memorial & Museum: Planning for Emergencies [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum has partnered with the New York City Department of Education and the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education to develop a robust set of 9/11 lessons for K-12 classrooms. Each activity...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Mail Time! An Integrated Postcard and Geography Study

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for five cross-curricular lessons that teach about geography, reading, and writing by having students send postcards to relatives and asking them to send postcards back. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Class Book Ideas: Story Frames

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site discusses how story frames are a great way to support emergent writers in the classroom. Lots of story prompts and writing frames to use in a K-2 classroom.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Developing Phonemic Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This online lesson stresses the importance of emergent readers' understanding of rhyming patterns in language. Through this, learners will learn and apply the concepts of rhyme through exercises and interactive activities. A great...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Launching Family Message Journals

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson introduces Family Message Journals-a teacher-tested tool for encouraging family involvement and supporting writing to reflect and to learn.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Drawing and Writing Stories

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Online instructional activity which allows elementary students to us the technique of drawing as a tool to create meaningful writing skills in fiction.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Have Journal Will Travel: Promoting Family Involvement in Litera

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students build positive memories of literacy activities when they take turns taking home a book bag stuffed with items to encourage literacy interactions with their families.