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From Pumpkin Time to Valentines: Sneaking Language Arts Strategies into Holiday Celebrations
From Pumpkin Time to Valentines Sneaking Language Arts Strategies into Holiday Celebrations Author:Susan Ohanian Keep students happily focused on learning during two of the most exciting holidays of the year for the elementary classroom-Halloween and Valentine's Day. Poems and excerpts are used as launching points for such projects as writing spooky tongue twisters or designing animal valentine cartoons. Reproducible language arts strategies teach word pla... more »y, interviewing, letter writing, research skills, problem solving, and metaphorical language while encouraging divergent thinking. Grades 1-5.« less