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Lulu's Games: The Right Order: Ready for School

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Put four pictures in the correct sequence to see a story of a boy getting ready for school.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: See Our Progress [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
"See Our Progress" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about students planting a prairie garden in a vacant lot close to the school. TV reporters interviewed the students and took pictures of the garden for the news that evening....
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New York Times

New York Times: From Sketch to Screen: "A Very Long Engagement"

For Students 9th - 10th
Launch an audio slideshow, narrated by the director of the film, about storyboarding sequences in "A Very Long Engagement." An interesting site for considering the work of the storyboard artist, whose sketching technique is wonderfully...