Teaching Ideas

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Writing Ideas

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Compare and Contrast

Listen and Respond Digital Book Kit

  • Drum Dream Girl & Ada's Violin 1-5
  • Dreamers 1-5
  • Symphony for the City of the Dead 7-12
  • The Skunk & Toys Go Out 1-5 | 4-8

  • Immigration: Dreamers & The Night Diary 1-8

  • Activism: The Day the Crayons Quit 1-5
  • Activism: Sofia Valdez, Future Prez & All the Way to the Top 1-5
  • Activism: Ghost Boys & Woke 4-12

  • SEL (Celebrating Differences): Just Ask & You Are (Not) Small K-5
  • SEL (Celebrating Differences): Inside Out & Back Again & The Year I Flew Away 4-8
  • SEL (Celebrating Differences): If I Ever Get Out of Here & When Dimple Met Rushi 7-12
One-A-Day Reflections

  • Celebrating Differences 1-5