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Text2Reader and poverty...
In January, Text2Reader will offer a close-up on poverty -- with a special focus on homelessness -- because it's closer to home than many of us think. Students will explore first-hand what it's like to live on the streets in our fiction selection from Cristy Watson's Living Rough. We'll engage them in writing, research and discussion activities to explore this very real concern. Our nonfiction selection highlights the plight of street dogs and gets students thinking in both creative and comparative terms about how life looks for a dog on the streets -- and how it looks for a human being. And in Digital Nation, we'll examine the way the widening technology gulf between the haves and the have-nots is ultimately diminishing the equality and accessibility of information in North America.
Text2Reader is a Language Arts program for grades 6 to 8. Using selections from bestselling books, Text2Reader is developed by teachers and is correlated to the English Language Arts curriculum and Common Core.
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Great Bear Rainforest (the Wordle)
 Excuse me. I'm wordling. (Leslie just questioned my Wordle obsession -- thinks it makes me quirky.) Have you used Wordle before? As a tool for the classroom this is pretty cool. Build word clouds from any piece of text.
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