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Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Making Connections During Read Aloud

Students make connections to read-aloud texts by relating the text to themselves (lived experiences), to other texts (read in any setting) and to the world (current and historical events)

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RL.K-2.9, RI.K-2.9

July 19, 2014

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Issue 24, Fall 2003

'Diversity Education'

This important and essential work begins in the classrooms of teachers like you.

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October 8, 2009

When One Day of Peace Just Isn’t Enough

The beginning of the school year is always filled with excitement, but this year our school initiated a project that is still taking on a life of its own.

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Informational

Following a presidential debate in 2012, Ann Coulter referred to President Barack Obama as a "retard" in one of her tweets. Stephens, a 30-year-old man with Down syndrome wrote this open letter to Coulter in response to her hurtful and uninformed comments.

John Franklin Stephens

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Ability Rights & Activism

July 5, 2014

teaching strategy

Word Work

Vocabulary Frames

Students use this tool to identify a word’s meaning, its parts and its opposite. After organizing the information on an illustrated flashcard, students practice using the word in a sentence.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

L.6-12.4, L.6-12.6

July 19, 2014

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Issue 45, Fall 2013

The Incredible True Story

Teaching Tolerance illustration with load of information students receive

The Common Core elevates nonfiction—and that's a good thing!

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Issue 10, Fall 1996

Inquire Within

Workshops help teachers talk about prejudice and discrimination.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

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June 23, 2016

The Curriculum Is In Your Backyard

If you dig deep, there is a WEALTH of curricular materials right outside the door of your school. Have you ever looked?

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Issue 47, Summer 2014

Toolkit for Playing to Learn

Experience the benefits of play with these five activities.

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Issue 37, Spring 2010

Into the Mainstream

In third grade, Julia Horsman’s entire science project consisted of being herded outside with the other kids with disabilities and rolling soda cans down a ramp.

Topic

Ability