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        <title><![CDATA[Rosa Parks was born on this day in 1913.]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Rosa Parks was committed to the struggle for social justice and human rights until her death, inspiring millions of people around the world. Today, we celebrate her!]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Read Across America Day: Celebrate a Nation of Diverse Readers]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Bring the celebration of reading and literacy into your classroom, library, school, and home all year long.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Today is D.E.A.R. Day!]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[April 12 is known as D.E.A.R Day! D.E.A.R. stands for "Drop Everything and Read," a national month-long celebration of reading designed to remind folks of all ages to make reading a priority activity in their lives.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Celebrate National Library Week!]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Celebrate Louise Erdrich's birthday today.]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Students watch a short video about Erdrich's love of books and write their own memory piece.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Teacher Appreciation Week honors our teachers.]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week, students read a book about a teacher and follow up with an activity related to the book using the Venn Diagram, Letter Generator, Story Map, or Essay Map.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Labor Day honors the labor movement in the United States.]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Marked by parades, picnics, and other celebrations, Labor Day is a time set aside to recognize the achievements of the American labor movement and the dignity in all work.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Vocabulary Solutions: A Mixture of Science, Conversation, and Writing]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[In this lesson, students conduct a science experiment and later discuss the events of the lab during shared writing.  Students explain the procedure in their own words and then revise to include content specific vocabulary.  Finally, students reflect on new words added to their writing using the Trading Card Creator interactive.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>David Brown</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[RWT Flip Book]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The Flip Book app is designed to allow users to type and illustrate tabbed flip books.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[RWT Postcard Creator]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The Postcard Creator walks students through the full production of a postcard.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[RWT Cover Creator]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Cover Creator allows users to type and illustrate covers for a variety of media.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[RWT Fact Fragment Frenzy]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Fact Fragment Frenzy provides elementary and intermediate students with an interactive model for finding facts in nonfiction text; then invites students to find facts in five sample passages.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[RWT Stapleless Book]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The Stapleless Book app is designed to allow users to create with ease an eight-page book simply by folding and cutting. Students can choose from several different layouts for the pages of their books.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Celebrate Digital Learning Day today.]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Students reflect on recent learning and the role digital tools and media have played in supporting or enhancing it.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Using Collaborative Reasoning to Support Critical Thinking]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Students will participate in Collaborative Reasoning in small groups to discuss and think critically about issues of social justice and diversity by reading current events informational articles. ]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rebekah Kane</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[United States Congress officially adopted the position of Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry in 1985.]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Students investigate the website of a past Poet Laureate's project and use it as a model to celebrate poetry that appeals most to them. ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Celebrate Mandela Day today.]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[After reading Kadir Nelson's Nelson Mandela, students explore the Mandela Day website before using an online tool to start working on a service project of their own.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Writing Acrostic Poems with Thematically Related Texts in the Content Areas]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Students read thematically related texts, scaffolded from simple to complex, to help them gather necessary concept vocabulary and background knowledge in a content area. They then write acrostic poems to organize and present their learning in a creative way.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>David Brown</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jon Scieszka was born in 1954.]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Students review Scieszka's tips for encouraging young people to read and then create their own, sharing ideas with adults in their community through a letter.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Book Report Alternative: Creating Postcards for Fictional Settings]]></title>

        <link>http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/book-report-alternative-creating-d-31159.html</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[In this alternative to the traditional book report, students report on their novel choices that feature journeys by creating postcards one of the settings featured in their books.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Kathy Wickline</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Captioning the Civil Rights Movement: Reading the Images, Writing the Words]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Teachers guide students to carefully view images from the Civil Rights Movement and write captions that accurately describe the images and/or their probable purposes.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Kristy Brugar, Kathryn L. Roberts, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children is announced today.]]></title>

        <link>http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/charlotte-huck-award-outstanding-31147.html</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Students read and discuss an award-winning book before writing their own story that demonstrates compassion.
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        <title><![CDATA[Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was born today.]]></title>

        <link>http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/composer-lyricist-stephen-sondheim-31136.html</link>
        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Students examine the painting that inspired Sondheim's Pulitzer-prize winning musical and then create a story of their own based on image they choose.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Celebrate John Venn's Birthday!]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Students celebrate the birth of English logician, philosopher, and creator of the Venn Diagram by building community within the classroom by comparing and contrasting likes, dislikes, and characteristics about one another.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Picture This: Using Instagram to Report]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[After taking a field trip that students document using mobile app Instagram, students become new reporters as they use the interactive Printing Press to tell about their experiences.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Kathy Wickline</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Learning about Clouds with Haikus]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Using a mobile app or Interactive activity, students write haikus describing various types of clouds that they have studied.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Kathy Wickline</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Show What You Know: Read, Write and Solve Math Problems]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Informational texts, iPads, and interactive games, oh, my! Help students journey through multimodal texts to identify and solve real-world mathematics problems using writing and apps. ]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Deborah Kozdras, Ph.D., Christine Joseph, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Haiku Poem Interactive]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Students can learn about and write haiku using this interactive that guides them through the writing process. ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Haiku Poem App]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Students can learn about and write haiku using this app that guides them through the writing process. ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Poetry Plus! Creating 21st Century Poems with Web Tools]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This lesson encourages students to immerse themselves in poetry as they share their original poems orally and digitally with published poets and peers nationwide. ]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Stephanie Laird, M.Ed. Curriculum and Instructional Technology</dc:creator>
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