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Celebrate National Poetry Month with Shel Silverstein

Click on the picture for 6 surprising math activities 

Integrate ELA and Math with Poetry

Check out the fun math activities that correlate 
with some of our favorite Shel Silverstein poems:

Band Aids

One Inch Tall

Baloney Belly Billy

Shapes

$mart!

18 Flavors

Picture Books for Teaching Writer's Craft

Everyone has their favorite mentor texts for teaching writer's craft, but check out this website to see it you can add some new books to your writer's craft repertoire:

http://www.mauryk12.org/Literacy/writing%20mentor%20texts.htm

Shannon Reynolds, 3rd grade teacher at Espy, shared this wonderful website with us. The website has categorized picture books/mentor texts and what writing craft/s you can teach with each book. You will find a book list for each category listed below:

• Creating Characters
• Crafting Beginning, Middle, and Endings
• Crafting Endings
• Crafting Voice
• Crafting Leads
• Crafting Titles
• Crafting Settings 
• Crafting with Words

Have fun checking out this picture book packed website!

FREE Web-based Book Resource

Annie Rauch, reading specialist at Inman, let us know about a free book resource for teachers that recently expanded from iOS format to web-based. It is called EPIC For Educators.  It's FREE to use if you sign up with your school email. The site offers thousands of interactive books for all reading levels.  You can sort the texts to use for a variety of purposes; differentiation, interactive read alouds, or maybe as a way to get reluctant readers reading more. 

Here's the web address:

https://www.getepic.com/educators/ 

Make sure to use your school email when you sign up. 

Analyzing Point of View

Did you know that we LOVE to get your questions?  One question that we received recently was about point of view.  The Teaching Channel has an excellent video of a lesson on analyzing point of view.  In the lesson, students read nonfiction texts about a historical period, identify stakeholders from that time period, and analyze the points of view of those stakeholders.  *Be sure to check out the supporting materials that go along with the lesson including accountable talk bookmarks (these are great tools!) and a graphic organizer.  You can find the entire post HERE.