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Volume 12, Issue 20
May 13, 2008

End-of-Year Projects: Volume 1
"No more pencils, no more books, no more..." No more time? The last days of school soon will be upon us, and your students may already be chanting the traditional end-of-school cheer, but that doesn't mean that you have to succumb to the temptation to start summer early. Why throw away the last few precious days? Instead, blow your students away with some cool end-of-year activities that combine fun and learning. Included: Links to dozens of additional activities to fill the final days.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson268.shtml

A Puzzle a Day Provides Practice That Pays
Exercise students’ critical thinking skills as they practice math, spelling…
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson336.shtml

Memorial Day: Remembering Those Who Gave Their Lives
What does Memorial Day mean to your students? Do they grasp the significance -- or the sheer number -- of American men and women who have died serving their country so the rest of us might enjoy freedom? Included: Five lessons help students understand the meaning of Memorial Day -- plus links to more than 2 dozen more lessons.
http://www.educationworld.com/holidays/archives/memorial_day.shtml

Celebrating Asian and Pacific-Island Heritage
Five lessons recognize special contributions of people of Asian heritage.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson340.shtml

Celebrate Children's Book Week (May 12-18)
Browse our book-themed activities, lessons, and projects.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_special/book_week.shtml

Fantastic Field Days!
May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. It’s also the time of year when many schools hold their annual field days. That's why Ed World's editors decided to leap in with dozens of great activities that are sure to make your field day the best one ever. Included: Five new lesson plans plus links to many more.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson315.shtml

More Fitness Month Fun
A full roster of stories, lessons, resources, and activities focused on PE.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_special/physical_fitness.shtml

Lesson Plan of the Day
See last week's lessons; search lessons by subject.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/dailylp.shtml

News for Kids
Drought Threatens Huge Man-Made Lake
A drought and other factors have scientists worried that Lake Mead could dry up.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/newsforyou.shtml

Vicki Cobb’s Show-Biz Science
Discover why we don't feel the earth move.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/showbiz_science/showbiz_science011.shtml

Learning Game of the Week
Tic-tac-toe, three kids in a row.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/learninggame/learninggame032.shtml

Early Childhood Teaching Themes
May Flowers and the Five Senses
We Love Trees
Math Is Marvelous!
http://www.educationworld.com/a_earlychildhood/newsletters/

Friday Fun
Rock or Feather: A Critical-Thinking Activity
In this engaging activity, students make and defend their choices.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/friday/friday023.shtml

Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Math Games With Joanne and Jane
This week: "Warp-3" teaches 3-addend addition.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/boxcars/boxcars019.shtml

From the Math Machine
Measure It! is a fun Web site for teaching students to use rulers to measure centimeters and inches. (Grades 1-6)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/mathmachine/mathmachine036.shtml

Writing Bug
Imagine that you are the oldest person in the world. What kind of life have you lived?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/writing_bug/writingbug102.shtml

Bulletin Boards That Teach
Check out our archive of 30 bulletin board ideas for use the school year long.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/archives/bullboard.shtml

Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plans
Teacher-Submitted Lesson #1 For Memorial Day, students' essays build a classroom Wall of Peace.
Teacher-Submitted Lesson #2 Popular children's book teaches fractions.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/index.shtml

Fact Monster Hunts
Primary Hunt May Hunt #4.
Ele-Middle Hunt Hunt #34.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/factmonster.shtml

Every-Day Edits
Primary Edits Animals A to Z: Zebra.
Ele-Middle Edits Mount St. Helens, Dolley Madison, Crater Lake…
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/animalsAtoZ.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/edit.shtml

Vocab-ulous!
Words that begin with sc- blends.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/vocabulous/vocabulous034.shtml

5-Minute Fillers Volume 35
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/fillers.shtml

Work Sheet of the Week
"Memorial Day Activities" -- make a book or a windsock.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/worksheets/TCM/soc_sci_3_5.shtml

Best Books for Teaching About…
Each week, Education World presents our Editors’ Choices for the best books for teaching about popular classroom themes. Check out our choices and add your own recommendations to the Readers’ Voices section of this week’s themed booklists:
Best Books for Teaching About...
Plants
Tornados
http://www.educationworld.com/a_bestbooks/archives/students.shtml

Just for This Month!
See our May Month of Fun, May Word Search, and May Coloring Calendar. PLUS! Create your own work sheets for this month’s themes: Spring, Umbrellas, Flowers….

FROM OUR PRINTABLES LIBRARY

Every-Day Edits
Use Every-Day Edits to build language skills, test scores, and cultural literacy. (Grades 4-up)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/edit.shtml

Backpack-tivities
These @ home learning activities are great family fun -- and learning. (Grades K-4)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/archives/homework.shtml

Math Cross Puzzles
Just like crosswords, but with math. (Grades 4-9)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/numbercross.shtml

Vocab-ulous!
Help students build a fab vocab. (Grades 5-12)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/vocabulous.shtml

Geography A to Z
Learn about world geography one letter at a time. (Grades 4-8)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/geography_az.shtml

New! TGIF #14 Have you seen Education World's new TGIF feature? Each Friday, TGIF rewards you for making it through another week. Take a deep breath, enjoy some cool ideas and resources, and get your weekend off to a great start! In Volume 14 Getting the "hang" of geography, state by state… All set for the National Spelling Bee? Activities for building students' teamwork skills… Watch for all new content this Friday in TGIF!

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Ask Dr. Shore About...
A Student With a Speech Impediment
“Dear Dr. Shore, A student in my classroom has a very noticeable speech impediment. What can I do to help her feel less self-conscious about it?"
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/shore/shore089.shtml

Cathy Puett Miller: The Reading Coach
Using Micro-Text to Teach Writing
"In education, micro-texts refer to small, targeted bits of a book, essay, poem.... A micro-text can be a single phrase, sentence, or paragraph. Its selection for teaching writing depends not only on brevity, but also on its content."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/miller/miller024.shtml

Dr. Fred Jones: Tools for Teaching
No Joy, No Work
“Incentives answer the question, ‘Why should I?’ The principle that ties incentives and motivation together is, ’No joy, no work.’"
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/jones/jones023.shtml

Brenda Dyck
Is "Teacher-Leader" an Oxymoron?
“Do today’s classroom teachers have a shelf life? Is teacher 'restlessness' a natural consequence of embracing life-long learning? Could it be that being on a constant learning curve has altered the persona of our profession?"
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/dyck/dyck014.shtml

Angela Powell: Getting It Together
Organize Reading Materials by Story
"A great way to keep reading materials easily accessible is to invest in enough 3-drawer organizers to have one drawer for each story in the reading series."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/organization/organization030.shtml

Reader's Theater
Dancing With the Nursery Rhyme Stars
Popular nursery rhyme characters face-off in the final round of a dance contest. It's a battle of fancy footwork as the contestants vie for a pot of gold. At the end of the show, the winners make a surprising announcement.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/reading/ReadersTheater/ReadersTheater008.shtml

Reading Review
SSR Helps Develop Independent Readers
Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) -- or Drop Everything And Read (DEAR) -- can be one more tool for developing lifelong readers.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr038.shtml

Total Reader
How Cool Is That!
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev149.shtml

Go Figure
The Bird or the Egg?
How many birds can you hatch from just one egg?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/math/go_figure/go_figure009.shtml

Math Worth Repeating

The Slinky Paradigm
“I didn’t think we’d be playing with toys when I walked into my first physics class. Yet there was Mr. N. holding a giant Slinky®, welcoming us into room 32."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/columnists/barreca/barreca028.shtml

Math Mnemonics
Learn to Count
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/mnemonics/mnemonics003.shtml

Teacher Feature
HOWL for Service Learning
Warren Phillips’ "gifted and talented" students learn while helping others.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/teacher_feature/teacher_feature180.shtml

Voice of Experience
"Fabulous Friday" Sparks Creativity and Learning
Would her new lesson help teacher Susan Lovelace give up the stage of the sage? Or would it fall flat on its face? The learning and creativity Lovelace saw -- and the confidence boost it gave students -- made "Fabulous Friday" the ultimate literature lesson.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/voice/voice095.shtml

Stress Relief
The Ed World Stress Reduction Kit
Too much to do? Too little time? Have those apparently endless end-of-year chores got you down? Check out our Stress Relief Kit for ideas and resources for calming the frenzied beast within -- and those without.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/archives/stresskit.shtml

Strategy of the Week
Pretzels
Pretzels -- an activity from the creators of the Responsive Classroom approach to teaching and learning -- is a primary-grade strategy that focuses on students' kindnesses and results in improved classroom behavior.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/strategy/strategy029.shtml

Backpacktivity
How Long Is the Line?
Students learn about estimation.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/homework/pdfs/backpacktivity_005.pdf

Classroom Management Tips
More Positive Reinforcement
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/management_tips/management_tips056.shtml

Favorite End-of-Year Activities
Members of the Education World Teacher Team share the activities, lessons, projects, games, and so on that they save for the end of the year, to use either as a culminating activity or to create a memory of the year for their students.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev136.shtml

Dealing With a Perfectionist
Students who are perfectionists set impossibly high standards for themselves and become frustrated when they fail to meet them. According to the perfectionist's code, failure is simply not an option.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/shore/shore008.shtml

Contests and Competitions
Samsung's Hope for Education Essay Contest
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/archives/contests.shtml

Tips Library
Classroom Management: Quiet Please!
Behavior Management: Keeping It Together
Motivating Kids: Introduce Year-Long Themes
Book Report Makeover: Kids Create a Quiz
Homework Tips: Freedom of Choice
Best Idea Ever: Reciprocal Journal
Testing Tips: Anxiety Attack
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/management_tips/management_tips039.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/behaviortips/behaviortips005.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/motivation/motivation003.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/bookreport/bookreport039.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/homeworktips/homeworktips008.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/bestidea/bestidea007.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/testing/testing003.shtml

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Doug Johnson's Tech Proof
Fair Use of Fair Use
"Copyright instruction and enforcement needs to change from describing narrow limits to emphasizing how educators and students can fully -- and legally -- use copyrighted materials."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/johnson/johnson027.shtml

Lorrie Jackson's Techtorial
Making Trading Cards With Word
"Using trading cards to teach subject-area facts can engage students' interest and spark their enthusiasm. Having students make their own educational trading cards can result in an activity -- and a database of information -- they'll be sure to remember."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial054.shtml

Bernie Poole's Tutorials Plus...
Essential Microsoft Office 2007
Bernie Poole's series of 10 tutorials with skill consolidation exercises is designed to help pre-service and in-service teachers learn the set of applications that includes Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint in the context of the K-12 classroom.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/poole/office_tutorials/

In his column, Fair Use of Fair Use, Doug Johnson states that educators "over-comply" with copyright law, denying themselves and their students of valuable educational resources. Do you agree or disagree with his conclusions? Join the Conversation.
http://forums.educationworld.com

Tech Classroom Spotlight
Mr. Mooney's Web Domain
Class Web site a "must" for Scott Mooney's students.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/teacher_feature/teacher_feature044.shtml

Tech Lesson of the Week
Editing Essays With Word
Still grading essays, red ink pen in hand? Next time your students have an essay due, ask them to submit their work in Word, help them identify their grammar and spelling errors, and then have them correct those errors using Word's table feature.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techlp/techlp040.shtml

Sites to See
Zoos
Where do you go to find unique, engaging online activities from some of the country's top zoos? Check out this list and discover some cool online tools for teaching and learning about zoos.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/sites/sites071.shtml

Template of the Week
Student of the Year
Reward your "students of the year."
http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/certificate_student_of_the_year.doc

The Tapped In® Page
What's happening on Tapped In this week?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/tappedIn.shtml

How Teachers View Technology
A "Teachers Talk Tech" survey found that the majority of teachers view computer technology as a valuable teaching tool that can improve students' academic performance and attention in class, while strengthening the lines of communication with parents.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech180.shtml

Digital Cameras Can Make Your Day
Teachers across the country and around the world are discovering the many valuable uses for digital cameras; uses that both engage students and make their own professional lives easier. If you can use a camera, you can use a digital camera… so, what are you waiting for?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech147.shtml

Quick! Get the Digital Camera!
Discover two dozen more digital camera activities guaranteed to make life easier for you and more interesting for your students.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech148.shtml

EdTech Tips of the Week
Run PowerPoint Your Way
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech_tips/tech_tips036.shtml
Click here to contribute to our tips library.

Interactivity
Sketchcast
This free online tool allows users to visually communicate an image (with or without a voice-over) by recording the process of creating the image.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/interactivity.shtml

Web Wizard
Mrs. Young's Web Site
Jocelyn Young's students learn about science, study, and their teacher online.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/webwizard053.shtml

Click here to share your classroom Web site with Education World readers.

The Connected Classroom
Designed to show teachers how to connect their classrooms to the world of information.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/videooftheweek.shtml
Do you have a comment about this video -- or a favorite online video you'd like to recommend to other educators? Click here to let us know about it.

What can you do with SchoolNotes? Check out Mr. Hipkin's Fourth Grade Class News.
http://www.schoolnotes.com

Advisories Inspire, Motivate Students
Finding fun, meaningful activities for advisory programs can be challenging. The program can’t be too serious or it will feel like yet another obligation; it can’t be too touchy-feely or it will generate eye-rolling. Helping students focus on what makes them happy and building connections to themselves, people, and institutions is part of the successful formula for a two-year advisory program at one Missouri school.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin525.shtml

George Pawlas: Pawlas on PR for PRincipals
Experienced Administrators Share Their Advice With Aspiring Principals
George Pawlas asked 23 graduate students in his educational leadership course to do an action research assignment. They were required to ask six questions of an experienced school administrator. The last question had to be What two pieces of advice would you give to an aspiring administrator? Here is what Pawlas’s students learned from the elementary, middle, and high school principals they interviewed.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/columnists/pawlas/pawlas012.shtml

Paul Young’s Young @ Heart
The Light in the Principal’s Office
“Effective principals know that the 'light' in the principal’s office must be among the brightest lights in the school. We must radiate acceptance and hope for all students. A special compliment, an act of kindness, or an expression of personal interest from us can be a powerful force in a student’s life as well as a model for other adults in the school.”
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/columnists/young/young006.shtml

The Principal Poet
Mr. Ivan, Education World's Principal Poet, presents this week’s poem, “Excuses.”
"My dog ate my homework,"
Is so, s-o-o-o-o 5th grade.
I think it's time that some
Better excuses were made…
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/columnists/ivan/ivan019.shtml

Meet the other members of Education World's Columnist Team.

Take Five for…
Reflecting on how strong teams can impact student achievement.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/takefive/takefive015.shtml

Student-Led Conferences Open Parent-Child Dialogue
Student-led conferences are a staple at one Maryland middle school. Students select and compile exemplary assignments from each subject and practice a short script that improves their communication and presentation skills before the big day. In a 20-minute meeting, each student shows off his or her portfolio of work to parents.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/partners/partners036.shtml

How I Handled…
An emergency in which a student broke his leg.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/how_i_handled/how_i_handled018.shtml

Pawlas on PR
Create an historical scrapbook of school news.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/pawlasPR/pawlasPR002.shtml

Exceptional Event
Field Day.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/exceptional_events/exceptional_events039.shtml

Instant Meeting #29
Plan a special event for sharing School Report Card results.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/meetingidea/meetingideas029.shtml

Morning Math
Questions for Week #34.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/archives/morning_math.shtml

Principal Ideas
Principal's brag board, "blow up" your teachers, more...
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/ideas/ideas010.shtml

Grant of the Week
NEA $5,000 Student Achievement Grants fund programs that improve the academic achievement of students in U.S. schools.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/grants/additional_grants.shtml

Conventions & Conferences
What's coming up?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/archives/conventions.shtml

Join the Conversation
On our "School Administrators" message board.
http://forums.educationworld.com/

More from the Principal Files
Making Class Lists Needn't Be a Nightmare
You've just completed the annual ritual -- the creation of next year's class lists. You've promised yourself you'll look for ways to make the process run more smoothly next year. First step: Read the advice in this Education World Principal Files story from school administrators who've been there, done that.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin118.shtml

Newsletters 'R Us
Copy and paste this free content into your teacher or school newsletters.

Wisconsin kids learn about healthful eating and exercise
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/fittobetaught/fittobetaught037.shtml

NCLB Updates
Last Piece of NCLB Lawsuit Dismissed
A federal judge dismissed the final piece of Connecticut's 2005 lawsuit challenging the cost of the No Child Left Behind Act.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/archives/NCLBupdates.shtml

Read About It
What Is Understanding By Design?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/readit/readit044.shtml

Whatever It Takes
What I Learned (the Second Time) in Seventh Grade
Spending a year with a seventh grade team at Bennet Middle School brought back memories, instilled new lessons, and evoked admiration. And it was a chance to share lessons from a school dedicated to doing whatever it takes.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/WIT/WIT032.shtml

Turnaround Tales
Increasing Reading Time for All
Expanded reading time at South Clearfield Elementary School has helped all students, but particularly those who still are learning English. Twenty percent of the students at South Clearfield come from homes where Spanish is spoken.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/nclbwork/nclbwork054.shtml

No Educator Left Behind
What Happens When Schools Pass Students
Just to Reduce the Failure Rate?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/NELB/NELB126.shtml

From the Education World Archives
Helping Schools Promote Fitness, Healthful Diets
Spurred by a government report warning about the effects of overeating and inactivity among children, education and health officials formed Action for Healthy Kids, a group that works with schools to promote more healthful lifestyles for youngsters.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/chat/chat175.shtml

School Doodle
What I Meant to Say Is…Thanks
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/school_doodles/school_doodles08.shtml

School Issues Spotlights
Issues Spotlight 1 Field Trips
Issues Spotlight 2 Teaching Physical Education
Issues Spotlight 3 Fitness
Issues Spotlight 4 Wellness
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/glossary/f.shtml#field
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/glossary/p.shtml#pe
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/glossary/f.shtml#fitness
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/glossary/w.shtml#well

EdScoops: Current Education News Headlines
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/archives/edscoops.shtml

 

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THE WEEKLY SURVEY
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This Week's Survey Question
Some schools have reported students using peanut products to bully kids with allergies. Should students be charged with a crime for deliberately exposing allergic students to peanuts?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/survey/survey175.shtml

Last Week's Survey Results
With only a month or two at most left in the school year, which best describes the main element of your plan for the balance of the school year?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/survey/survey174.shtml

 

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SITE REVIEWS
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This week, Education World reviewed three Web sites of interest to educators.

Rock Cycle Animations
"Rock Cycle" meaning granite and such, not resurgent 1980s music.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0508-09.shtml

In the Mix
Site based on PBS show by and for teens.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0508-07.shtml

Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Age
Copyrights and copy wrongs for middle and high school.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0508-05.shtml

 

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Each week, Education World spotlights books of interest to educators. This week, read a brief summary of two more of our "top 50 books for educators."

The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher
Harry and Rosemary Wong are, of course, among the deans of education writing in America, and this book is evidence of why. In addition to providing a lot of practical advice -- brought to life with more than 300 photos and illustrations -- the book focuses on three essential characteristics of a successful teacher, namely, positive expectations, classroom management, and lesson mastery, as well as on basic and future "understandings" that are part of the teaching life.
Click to learn more or to purchase this book.

How We Think
John Dewey's classic treatise on what exactly "thinking" means, and how, starting from that definition, it makes sense to educate students to actually do it, is not light beach reading, but this relatively brief book is well worth a rainy weekend. Together with Dewey's "Democracy and Education," "How We Think" provides the modern reader with a clear understanding of the foundations of American educational thought.
Click to learn more or to purchase this book.

Click the icon to the right to see more books and many other products that are available in the Education World MarketPlace.

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The Best of the WRITING BUG

If you enjoy Education World's weekly WRITING BUG feature, you'll love this book! Education World and the National Education Association (NEA) have joined forces to create a handy, pocket-size booklet with 44 of the most popular Writing Bug story starters. Use these Writing Bug activities to engage your students in effective writing. Each writing prompt will spark students' imaginations, tickle their funny bones, and motivate their pencils.

Included: In this booklet you'll find these Writing Bug titles and many more:

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MORE FEATURES OF INTEREST!
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Best Books for Teaching About… Booklists for 30 popular teaching themes.
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