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Beat the Heat With Free Summer Learning Activities From ReadWriteThink.org

<img alt="" sfref="[images|OpenAccessDataProvider]749a67c1-674c-6d52-9eff-ff000089f9b9" src="/images/default-source/reading-today/avatarread.jpg?sfvrsn=0.8224622192792594" title="read" style="float: left; margin: 0px 8px 8px 0px;" />A long break from school can mean that students’ minds melt faster than an ice pop on a hot July day! ReadWriteThink.org offers free activities for the summer.

https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2013/06/12/beat-the-heat-with-free-summer-learning-activities-from-readwritethink-org

Discoveries: Recapture exciting discoveries by writing poetry about summer adventures from a story and from

5 Questions With … Julie Sternberg (LIKE BUG JUICE ON A BURGER)

Julie Sternberg received her MFA in writing for children from the New School. She is the author of LIKE PICKLE JUICE ON A COOKIE and LIKE BUG JUICE ON A BURGER. She lives in Brooklyn. Visit her at www.juliesternberg.com.

https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2013/07/05/5-questions-with-julie-sternberg-(like-bug-juice-on-a-burger)

to as free verse. But I never set out to write poetry. I chose frequent line breaks for the books because

First Annual Social Justice Literature Awards

<img sfref="[images|OpenAccessDataProvider]877472c1-674c-6d52-9eff-ff000089f9b9" src="/images/default-source/reading-today/avatarsocialbookaward.jpg?sfvrsn=0.7216023411601782" alt="Social Book Award" title="Social Book Award" style="float: left; margin: 0px 8px 8px 0px;" /><em>The House on Dirty-Third Street</em> and <em>Summer on the Moon</em> were the first recipients of this new award from the Literacy and Social Responsibility SIG.

https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2013/10/25/first-annual-social-justice-literature-awards

subcategories of poetry, narrative and nonfiction. The committee was supported by the generous mentoring

5 Questions With... Seymour Simon

<img alt="" sfref="[images|OpenAccessDataProvider]7cd372c1-674c-6d52-9eff-ff000089f9b9" src="/images/default-source/engage-blog/seymoursimon-summary.jpg?sfvrsn=0.5110580015461892" title="seymoursimon-summary" style="float: left;" />Good writing is essential for any text, fiction or nonfiction. Too often we expect nonfiction to be “the player to be named later” in terms of quality. We expect good fiction to be “good” because of the excellence of the way a story is told; why shouldn’t we expect the same with nonfiction?

https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2013/11/04/5-questions-with-seymour-simon

of plants and animals, weather and seasons, starry night skies, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the poetry

5 Tips for Scaffolding Multimodal Composition

<img alt="" sfref="[images|OpenAccessDataProvider]743e7ec1-674c-6d52-9eff-ff000089f9b9" src="/images/default-source/association/D0D374171D9B.jpg" />Do you want to know the secret to successful multimodal composition instruction? Here are five tips I use when teaching students how words, images, and sounds work together to enhance the author’s message.

https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2014/04/04/5-tips-for-scaffolding-multimodal-composition

such as informational texts, poetry, magazines, blogs, and websites. By talking about how modes can enhance

Small Twists With Big Impact

<img src="/images/default-source/reading-today/change-suskind-th.jpg"/>IRA member Dorothy Suskind says change in the classroom helps her students succeed. Here are her top 10 "twists."

https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2015/01/06/small-twists-with-big-impact

for environmental print your students might use in their poetry, to capture dialogue by unexpected

How to Anchor Writing in the Summer

<img src="/images/default-source/reading-today/Hollin-Meadows-th.jpg"/>Educators at Hollin Meadows engage good writing over summer break.<br />

https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2015/05/19/how-to-anchor-writing-in-the-summer

local critters, squirrels, rabbits, and raccoons; poetry with onomatopoeia; alphabet books; maps; how

News & Notes July 2015: ILA Member Accomplishments

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https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2015/07/29/news-notes-ila-member-accomplishments

of 90 books for young people and classroom teachers, wrote “Poetry, the Write Thing to Do” as Chapter 1

Fast, Accurate, Useful Assessment—Or Not

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https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2015/10/21/fast-accurate-useful-assessment-or-not

for Standardized Tests!” Really? What about, “Perfect for writing poetry!” or “Perfect for jotting down

Attitude of Gratitude

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https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2015/11/23/attitude-of-gratitude

details about the type of poetry she used in this book and encourages young writers to try writing