Language Arts – Literacy
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By Blynne Froke Our high school basketball team has had great players for decades, but we have only had great seasons a few times. The simple reason for that is that it takes more than some good players to win a game and especially to have a great season. It takes a great team. All …
By Sally, Indiana I use a cross-curricular approach to teaching the Iditarod. I begin this unit in January using many of my own photographs and personal knowledge of Alaska (I’ve been there several times and LOVE it) Language arts includes the children reading chapter books such as “Balto”, “Stone Fox’, and “Snow Dogs! Racers of …
Dog Mushers Legacy by William Miller, AK IDITAROD To Ancient peoples a far away place Now it’s Alaska’s greatest race Joe and Dorothy’s race you see This is their legacy Many mushers will gather to see The fresh faces of people from so many places Hundreds of dogs they will gather Willing to run in …
This Reader’s Theater was developed based on the book, Where’s the Boss, by Lois Harter. It can be used with any grade level and has many times been performed on stage by many classrooms. Click here to download the script. Crystal and Toby brought the team to a stop. Both leaders looked over their shoulder’s, …
My class did a modified version of Idita-Read. I copied all of the materials from the web-site for each of my students. On the first page of the packet, the students had to set goals. Our goal as a class was to read for 15 minutes everyday during Language Arts class. This could be any …
