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¡Bienvenidos a Tiempo en familia! We provide you with daily summer reading activities in Spanish about family and spending time together.

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Help students in Grades 3–12 tap into what they're feeling with an informal writing activity.

Janna Sakson
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Students will learn from reading diary entries written on the Oregon Trail how such writings preserve history and bring the past to life.

Glenn Greenberg
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Andrea Barnes is retiring after nearly 30 years in the classroom. In this post she shares parting words of wisdom for future teachers, especially the need for collaboration during the current COVID-19 crisis.

Richard Blankman
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Van a recibir lecciones de lectura y aprendizaje para cinco días con las que su hijo podrá conocer más sobre las mariposas, las abejas y otros insectos.

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Van a recibir lecciones de lectura y aprendizaje para cinco días con las que su hijo podrá conocer más sobre las mariposas, las abejas y otros insectos.

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Van a recibir lecciones de lectura y aprendizaje para cinco días con las que su hijo podrá conocer más sobre las mariposas, las abejas y otros insectos.

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Students will read stories about people's experiences on the Oregon Trail and work on related activities that will help them build their skills in math, science, ELA, and other subject areas.

Glenn Greenberg
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For this week's activities, students can create a how-to video, use research to defend their stance on an issue, and respond to summer writing prompts.

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The media literate person needs to understand how statistics can be manipulated—and that's where statistics literacy comes in.

Erik Palmer
Program Consultant, Into Reading and Into Literature

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Van a recibir lecciones de lectura para cinco días, con las que su hijo podrá explorar el tema de las artes y la creatividad.

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Van a recibir lecciones de lectura para cinco días, con las que su hijo podrá explorar el tema de las artes y la creatividad.

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Van a recibir lecciones de lectura para cinco días, con las que su hijo podrá explorar el tema de los diferentes estados del tiempo.

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See literacy in action with Literacy at Work. Paired with lesson plans, the web series features literacy leaders as they teach students poetry, speechwriting, and more.

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Van a recibir lecciones de lectura para cinco días, con las que su hijo podrá explorar el tema de los diferentes estados del tiempo.

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Van a recibir lecciones de lectura para cinco días, con las que su hijo podrá explorar el tema de los diferentes estados del tiempo.

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Esther Wojcicki shares her lesson on conducting an interview and writing a personality feature—​an intriguing, creative article about the interviewee.

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Teach students in Grades 3-12 how to conduct interviews and write compelling personality features with these insights from Esther Wojcicki.

Esther Wojcicki
Journalist and Teacher; Founder, Palo Alto High Media Arts Program