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		<title>Winter Reading and Writing Activity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Marshall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brrrr&#8230;.winter is here and it’s cold outside!  What better way to bring winter fun into a warm classroom than reading a good story and then letting creative spirits take charge? This wintertime reading and writing activity, plus a little art thrown in, does exactly that. Materials needed: Frosty the Snowman plus one other book about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Activity For Reviewing Parts of Speech – Designing Diamantes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pam Marshall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once students have learned parts of speech such as nouns, verb forms, and adjectives, a fun and cumulative review can incorporate poetry – specifically diamante poems. A diamante poem is a poem consisting of seven lines that take the shape of a diamond.  It’s a poem about opposites where the first and last lines are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Relationship Between Reading and Writing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many years reading and writing were (and sometimes still are) taught separately. Though the two have almost always been taught by the same person (the English/Language Arts teacher) during the Language Arts period or block, educators rarely made explicit connections between the two for their students. Over the last ten years research has shown [...]]]></description>
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