Shakespeare LIVE! Performance & Workshop
Every year it becomes more challenging to convince the 21st century teenager that this playwright of the 16th century, Shakespeare, had something worthwhile and exciting to say, and a fabulous and engaging way in which to say it. The New Jersey Shakespeare Theatre’s 60-90 minute “Speak the Speech” workshops will allow 30 students at a […]
BrainPOP
BrainPOP created animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students. Ideal for both group and one-on-one settings, it was used to introduce a new lesson or topic, illustrate complex subject matters, or help review before a test. Students viewed animated movies about different topics in all content areas, took online quizzes, viewed historical timelines, […]
Book Club Books
Reader’s Workshop is a fundamental element of Language Arts in the third grade. To best meet the needs of all learners, adequate books are essential to all classrooms. The goal is to provide students the opportunity to read complex, high-interest text with deep comprehension. The units of study for third grade require readers to work […]
Classroom Audible Book Project
The purpose of this grant is to establish audible books in each Special Education resource room. Books that students can “listen to” will allow us to expose our students to a variety of literary genres. Furthermore, audible books will help to improve reading fluency as well as increase comprehension skills. These skills are the building […]
A “Novel” Way for Integrating Science, Reading, and Character Education in the Science Classroom
It is important for students to understand that different content areas are related, not separate from one another, and scientists are required to read a large variety of materials as a part of their work. This project increases the types of reading materials that students are exposed to in the 6th grade science curriculum and […]