Standard 1. Students read and understand a variety of materials. Standard 5. Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience. Standard 2. Students know physical and human ...
3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their ...
Outside my window, a blue jay picks up a seed and flies to a branch. A chickadee lights on the porch, its song like spring in dead of winter. Do I love these birds? I could try to cherish them more, ...
February is National Haiku Writing Month. The website nahaiwrimo.com urges us to write one haiku a day for the month of February. "Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s ...