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Keep Your Students Learning Till the Final Bell with Kidspiration 3

Keep your K-5 grade students learning right up until that final bell with a hassle-free end of the year project. Get tips on how to keep your students engaged and celebrate a successful school year while they plan, write and publish a yearbook. Lucy Belgum, our Education Development Manager for Language Arts, hosted a 45-minute webcast on May 14th, showing how to:

- Use graphic organizers to keep the project simple and manageable
- Celebrate and acknowledge learning and teaching in all content areas

Richard Allington, Regie Routman and other respected practitioners/researchers in the area of reading often address summer reading loss. Research indicates that students who do not read over the summer, lose approximately 3 months of reading growth. Children who do read over the summer break, continue to make gains. [+]

As students finish final projects and you grade papers, plan celebrations, close down classrooms and move towards summer, I congratulate you for another successful year almost completed! I commend you during this difficult economic time, as you remain positive, be a forward thinker, and focus on improving your teaching methods, knowledge and skills. Improvement and innovation are always vitally important as we attempt to engage and prepare students for the future. [+]

Take a moment and think about the new advances in technology over the past 10 years, even the past 5 years. The Internet and other forms of information and communication technologies are changing the very nature of our classrooms and most certainly the ways our students learn. Reading and writing are no longer accomplished via print forms only. Students instant message, blog, e-mail, interact on social networks, the list has grown and will continue to do so well into the future. [+]

Digital Wish is a non-profit charity, dedicated to helping schools gain technology access across all subject areas. Over 10,000 teachers are already using Digital Wish to find and share digital lesson plans. The site features a growing library of grants and fund raising ideas to help schools marshal community support.

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