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Jargon Journal May Bundle

Four books for May!  Are you ready?? Click here to read more about the importance of vocabulary instruction. Click here to read more about the Jargon Journal program. Here are the May books: I adore this book–it's one of my very favorite picture books.  If you don't have a copy

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Jargon Journal April Bundle

We're sliding in under the wire, but here is the April bundle of Jargon Journal units! Click here to read more about the importance of vocabulary instruction. Click here to read more about the Jargon Journal program. Here's what we've picked for April: April Foolishness  — Buy the book April

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The Night Before New Years Vocabulary Unit

We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and here’s to a happy new year! Thanks for all your support in 2013. Just a quick post to let you know that we’ve got 4 new vocabulary units coming for your Jargon Journal for January. But we’ve also got a

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Acquiring Vocabulary with an Interactive Vocabulary Notebook

  Words are not just words. They are the nexus—the interface—between communication and thought.  When we read, it is through words that we build, refine, and modify our knowledge. What makes vocabulary valuable and important is not the words themselves so much as the understandings they afford. –Marilyn Jager Adams

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1st Grade Common Core Homework Add-On Pack

The title of this product is a little confusing. We started with the end! We don’t have the first 100 pages of the 1st grade homework finished yet. But we thought it would be helpful to make the planned add-on pack first so it can be used for the end

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2nd Grade Homework

Soooo homework.  Yeah.  Isn’t that a tricky subject?  After a dozen years of teaching here is my philosophy on homework. The general rule is 10 minutes of homework for every grade level.  That would be 20 minutes for 2nd grade.  I don’t include reading at home when I’m talking about

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