Introduce your students to amazing stories like LMNO Peas, The Ant and the Grasshopper, Blackout, and Nelson Mandela with DVDs from Weston Woods. Each animated DVD is six to ten minutes long and includes an option so students can read along with the stories. These audiovisual adaptations bring outstanding picture books to life. One lucky teacher will win a set of four DVDs! (Update: congratulations to Becky, who is our winner!)
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To enter our contest, submit a comment to our blog to let us know which of this week’s language arts–related freebies and offers are your favorites. Send your comment by 11:59 pm ET on Wednesday, October 30, 2013, to be entered in our drawing. Good luck!
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Have some fancy fun with the Nancy Clancy Reads, Reads, Reads!!! Book Club, free from HarperCollins. Fancy Nancy has moved into chapter books, and they’re bursting with the magnifique vocabulary words and Nancy-style humor that readers love. Click here to learn more!
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What are your young writers working on? Show off students’ best work with a schoolwide publishing program from Studentreasures. Click here to request more information and two free hardbound sample books. If you publish before the end of the year, your school will be entered to win $10,000 worth of grants.
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Do you have a Reading Buddies program at your school? Now’s the time to start one! Download a free kit with step-by-step directions and get your reading partners started with the Magic Tree House series, which has been turning kids into readers for 20 years! Click here to get started.
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Kids across the country are competing to see which authors are Best in Class with the Class Acts Challenge from HarperCollins. Get free excerpts and discussion questions, learn class cheers, watch videos, and check titles off the official reading list. It’s all at www.classactsbooks.com.
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Have your students discovered everyone’s favorite class pet, Humphrey? This hilarious hamster shares his adventures and friendships through his tales of life in Room 26 and of his pal, Og the Frog. While supplies last, get a free Humphrey poster for your classroom. Request yours now!
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Start building literacy skills and much more with ABC Mouse. Right now, ABC Mouse is free to early childhood teachers. Access more than 3,000 free activities at ABCmouse.com/schools. Sign up now!
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Send your comment to enter this week’s contest. Good luck!
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PS: Enter to win one of 200 copies of The Lonely Lake Monster—the newest book in the mythical The Imaginary Veterinary series by Suzanne Selfors. Submit a comment to our “Huge Giveaway” post by 11:59 PM ET Monday, November 4.
Humphrey poster is my favorite freebie on this post.
Ahhh so much to choose from. LOve ABC Mouse.
As a “Fancy Nancy Fan”, I am thrilled to see author, Jane O’Connor venturing into the world of chapter books. Anytime I’m teaching my 2nd Graders a sophisticated expression, an idiom, a play on words, or challenging vocabulary, I refer to these terms as “Fancy Nancy” words. I would LOVE to win “Fancy Nancy Reads, Reads, Reads!!!” for my class library!
The ABC Mouse is my most favorite freebie this time. I will use it for lesson plans and activities. Thank you for all the great resources.
LaShaina
SHCS Preschool
I like the Learning Buddies program
I love the Nancy Clancy site. My daughter has been a fan for years. She is just beginning to read Chapter books so it is just the right timing!
My class would love all of them.
I like the Nancy Clancy book club. I could see many students really enjoying the material.
I love the reading buddies information great idea and thanks for the help.
ABC mouse is the best
The reading buddies is my favorite. We have started a parent involved Dad’s Club in our elementary school and the dad’s help to facilitate the reading buddy program. Through guidance with the children to children and parent to child interaction we are hoping to grow the love of reading everyday in a child’s life.
My favorite is ABC Mouse because I can use it in my multiple-disabilities special education classroom.