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Have your children in Grades 3-5 explore how great things can happen when we work together.

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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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Have middle schoolers create a Story Spine, find inspiration in everyday objects, and write an advice column.

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Discover five days of reading and learning activities designed to engage your child in an exploration of family and spending time together.

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Discover five days of reading and learning activities designed to engage your child in an exploration of family and spending time together.

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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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Have high schoolers find inspiration for stories in everyday objects or events and craft advice columns with these downloadable activities for at-home learning.

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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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Discover five days of reading lessons designed to engage your child in an exploration of how great things can happen when we work together.

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Engage your child in an exploration of how great things can happen when we work together with these reading activities for Grades 1-2.

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Explore five days of reading and learning activities designed to engage your child in an exploration of 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.

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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.

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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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Help your middle schoolers sharpen their writing and critical thinking skills with activities including a poetry scavenger hunt and an opportunity for them to invent a board game.

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High schoolers can sharpen their writing skills with activities including a reflective essay on the past school year and a playlist for a book they read.

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Explore five days of reading and learning activities designed to engage your child in an exploration of butterflies, bees, and other bugs.

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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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