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With enough passion and practice, becoming a slam poet is within your reach. Explore a distant memory on paper, then read it out loud. Edit. Try reading it out loud again, and add your finishing touches. Gayle Danley offers five steps to being a slam poet -- while being downright poetic in the process.

I am specifically saving this page because of the sixth activity she has which is stick sight word center where they use their site words to alphabetize, make sentences, and stick frames.

5 characteristics of a story in rap!!! Plot, character, conflict, theme, setting

Daily 5 ELA Work. I found this PDF on how to introduce the daily 5 ELA work into your classroom over 20 days and I really like it. I feel the only down side is it doesn't really explain all the steps so I will have to do more research. 

Interesting way to organize your independent reading time everyday.

This week's announcement of a new initiative called TED-Ed caused a flurry of excitement about the new videos TED is creating to spread powerful lessons beyond the classroom walls.