Young scholars create glass to create a jewelry project. In this fused glass design project, students design original pieces of jewelry, glue them and burn off the glue in a kiln. 

Students explore the ways that communities work in the story Horton Hears a Who and compare that to the community in which they live.

Students create poems using selected newspaper headlines, magazines, on-line publications etc. They choose headlines and compose their poems using their selected material. They add punctuation, photos and/or drawings as desired.

Similar to teaching beginning readers about rhyme, teaching children about onset and rime helps them recognize common chunks within words. This can help students decode new words when reading and spell words when writing. This article...

When older students struggle with decoding difficult words, the word study routine described in this slide presentation can teach them to chunk bigger words into smaller parts to learn pronunciation skills.

A short but clever animation that helps early readers learn to pronounce words by chunking them into letter groups and syllables.