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"Dr. Marzano describes a six-step process in the instruction of vocabulary (Building Academic Vocabulary). The first three steps are to assist the teacher in direct instruction. The last three steps are to provide the learner practice and reinforcement."

LitTunes is a collaborative online community designed to serve three purposes: 1) to provide educators with a centralized source of materials and support for using popular music in the classroom; 2) to provide a forum for educators to share their successful experiences and research involving the use of popular music, and; 3) to inspire educators to reach the disenfranchised with their own language - music.

Conducted every three to five years by ACT, the survey collects data about what entering college students should know and be able to do to be ready for college-level coursework in English, math, reading, and science.

Take a three word sentence and create a paragraph. This site is an experiment and is still being developed but it will give kids the sense of creating something larger from a small beginning. It demonstrates to young writers the importance of refining the written words.