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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Create and Play: A Hot Summer Day

For Students K - 1st
Look at all the fun you can have on a hot summer day. Book includes audio narration in 19 additional languages with text in English.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Friends: School Is Out for the Summer!

For Students K - 1st
Now that school is out for the summer, children have many new adventures and experiences. Includes audio narration in English and Turkish with text in English.
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Read Works

Read Works: Splash Into Summer!

For Students 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text giving tips on how to stay safe during summer activities. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Summer Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Discover more about the importance of summer reading through this informative resource. Scholastic.com provides teachers with links to summer booklists, articles on summer reading and more.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Article on Encouraging Summer Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Scholastic.com provides teachers with this practical article to help encourage summer reading. The research presented within this article will enable teachers to create readers.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Teachers: Bridging the Summer Reading Gap

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This resource provides an article that discusses the importance of summer reading for students. Find out what schools can do to help improve student's participation in summer reading.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Playing With Water Packet: Grades 1 and 2: Summer of Possibilities

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Use these water-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Summer of Reading Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Get summer started on the right page with PBS LearningMedia's Summer of Reading collection! These videos, activities, and interactive games help to build vocabulary and reading comprehension while bringing storybook characters to life.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "The Summer of the Swans" [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A nice study guide for "The Summer of the Swan" by Betsy Byars, complete with pre-reading material, thought-provoking discussion and essay questions, and brainstorming activities. Provides excellent post-reading writing and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Investigating Animals Packet: Pre K and K: Summer of Possibilities

For Students Pre-K - K
Use these animal-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures while investigating animals.
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Teacher Planet

Teacher Planet: Summer

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A variety of lesson plans, units, activities, and worksheets are provided here all with a summer theme.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Sharing Summer Reading Through Literature Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity allows students to discuss the assigned summer reading in literature circles with respect to plot, character, and theme. Students work in groups of three to four to produce a slideshow presentation of one of...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Graph Summer Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Placing a tag on a pictograph to indicate activities throughout summer.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Our Summer Vacation

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson will be used after a study of Alabama. It will incorporate the theme of vacationing into information learned about state parks in Alabama. Students will make a book about favorite state parks in Alabama and favorite things to...
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Other

Paul Yee: 'What Happened This Summer' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teaching guide provided by Paul Yee for his book of short stories, "What Happened This Summer", provides a summary of the book, discussion questions and classroom activities. The book explores the issues faced by Chinese-Canadian...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Discussion Guide: The Summer of the Swans

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "The Summer of the Swans" by Betsy Cromer Byars. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Early Chicago Environment & People [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"Early Chicago Environment & People" is a one page, nonfiction passage about the Native Americans who lived in what is now Chicago. It explains how they lived and how Chicago got its name. It is followed by constructed-response...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Early Chicago Environment and People [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th
"Early Chicago Environment and People" is a one page, nonfiction passage about the early Native Americans who settled in what is now Chicago. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids Printables

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is a collection of 24 printable activities sheets for grades Pre-K to grade 2.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Hot and Cold Summer

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is based on the 5th grade Harcourt Reading Series. The lessons focus on spelling, grammar and vocabulary. Many items are linked to activities. The students will be engaged!
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science of Baseball

For Students 9th - 10th
An incredible site regarding the history and science of baseball. Discover the reaction time of a fastball, what it takes to make a home run, baseball in Japan, and historical references to how the game has evolved over time. Activities...
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Teachnology

Teachnology: June Monthly Teacher Resource Guide

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Enhance your lessons on June holidays, themes, and events with this extensive collection of resources such as lesson plans, activities, and worksheets.
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Emerald Atlas by John Stephens

For Students 4th - 7th
This is the official website for Emerald Atlas, the first book in the trilogy of Books of Beginning. It includes a video book trailer for Emerald Atlas, a fantasy novel written by John Stephens, links to a summer activity guide and a...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Betsy Byars

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This resource site for the work of the children's author Betsy Byars features e-notes, activities, and lesson plans for classes reading Keeper of the Doves, The Summer of the Swans, and Trouble River.

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