Welcome to my Portaportal!
Building Vocabulary
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Jeopardy Prefixes 1
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Rooting Out Words
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Prefixes - Fact Sheets & Quizzes
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Rags to Riches - Roots & Prefixes
Test your skills
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Flashcards - Literary Terms
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Prefixes - An Aid to Spelling
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Flashcards - Greek Roots
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Suffixes - Their Importance in Spelling!
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Dictionary.com
Games & flashcards - prefixes and Latin roots
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Fact Monster!
You will find ALL KINDS of useful information here! Check it out!
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Largest Root Word Dictionary!
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Connotative/Denotative
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Prefixes, Suffixes, Roots:Games
Classroom Blogs
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News From the Classroom
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Mrs. Halterman Has Class!
Classroom reading blog!
Grammar Sites
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Parts of Speech & Punctuation
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The Grammar Gorillas
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Subject/Verb Agreement
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The Plural Girls
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Brain Pop
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English-Zone
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Noun Dunk
Game - Identify Nouns
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Magnetic Words
Sort the nouns!
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Capitalization and Punctuation Games
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Punctuation Quiz
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Comma Game
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Punctuation Trivia Game
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Basic Punctuation Games
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Comma Chameleon
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Punctuating Dialogue
review notes and complete exercise
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Parts of Speech Game
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Sentence or Fragment Game
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Guide to Grammar and Writing
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More Punctuation Games
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More Punctuation Games
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Language Arts Skill Builders
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Grammar Quizzes
Interactive quizzes
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Quotation Marks Quiz
Test your knowledge!
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Quotation Marks Quiz II
Take another quiz!
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Punctuation Games & Activities
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Don't Use Said Game
(Remember, said is dead!)
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Punctuation Activities
An activity for everything!
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Verb Balloons
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To Bee or Not to Bee
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Pickit Verbs
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Verbs in Space
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Verb Viper
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Parts of Speech Games
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Irregular Verbs
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Verb Power
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Nouns and Verbs
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Independent/Dependent Clauses
Take the quiz!
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4 Types of Sentences
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Sentence Structure Games
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Road to Grammar
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Adjective & Adverb Games
Great Reading Sites
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Reading Comprehension Activities
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Short Pieces - Fiction and Nonfiction
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Reading Skills
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Author's Purpose
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Seventh-Grade Skills
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Fun Brain Games
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Reading Comprehension - Stories
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The Learning Planet
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Reading Planet
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Classroom Reading Blog
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Plot Diagram
Plot the story!
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More Reading Comprehension Stories
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Practice Reading Test
Brainchild
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Time Magazine for Kids
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Practice Reading SOL Test Questions
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BBC Skillswise
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Reading Practice Passages
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Tune in to Learning!
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Cause & Effect Jeopardy
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Cause & Effect Quiz
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Cause & Effect Activities
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Cause & Effect Links
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Sequencing Fun
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Story Scramble
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Sequence of Events
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Sequencing Links
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Types of Conflict
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Internal or External Conflict?
Parts of a Book
Great Writing Sites
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Writing Tips
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Writing With Writers-Descriptive
Author Virginia Hamilton
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Narrative Writing
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Narrative Writing Tutorial
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Forms of Writing
Go-to resources for writing
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Writing Workshop
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Expository Writing
teaching text structure
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Expository Writing Prompts
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Make a Wordle!
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Guide to Grammar and Writing
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Persuasive Writing Speaking Activities
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101 Persuasive Essay Topics
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Creative Writing Prompts
Just for Middle School Kids!
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Halloween Web sites
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Halloween Sites for Kids
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Holiday Web Sites
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The First Thanksgiving
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Mystery Net
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Extreme Explorer
Cool Stuff to look at and read!
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Squigly's Playhouse
Games, puzzles, jokes & other cool stuff
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Spring Activities and Resources
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Spring Puzzles for Kids
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Activity Village
Check it Out!
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Black Dog's Easter Links
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Holidays
Games and study skills
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Gollywhoppergames
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Oak Island Treasure
Learn more about it!
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Scary Games
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More Halloween Games & Activities
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Disney Games
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Most Played Halloween Games
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Halloween Games-For Girls!
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Halloween Games-For Girls!
Novel/Short Story Studies
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Julie of the Wolves
webquest
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Christmas Jars by Jason Wright
Read some real live Christmas Jar stories!
The Outsiders - by S.E. Hinton
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Meet the Author
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Webquest for The Outsiders
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Which greaser are you?
Funny quiz!
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"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
RobertFrost poem
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Character Synopses
Review all of the chatacters!
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Jeopardy Game
Great review!
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More about S.E. Hinton
The Mysterious Treasure of Oak Island
Private Eyes
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Ace Detectives
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Kids Mystery Net
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Who Killed Angela Spelling?
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Fingerprinting
A lesson on classification
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The FBI Kids' Page
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CIA Kids' Page
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Forensic Science for Kids
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The Science Spot
forensic lesson plans and activities
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Crime Scene Investigation
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More Fingerprinting
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Nancy Drew Sleuth
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How to be a Teenage Detective
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History Detective Kids
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Mystery Case Files Huntsville Game
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Detective Games for Kids
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Goosebumps!
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Play Detective Games Online
Reading Genres
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Another Genre Quiz!
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Identifying Genres
Read first - then test yourself!
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Genre Matching Quiz
Reference, Research, and Technology
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Plagiarism
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Copyright and Fair Use
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Copyright and the Internet
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Using Material From the Internet
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How to Use Internet Materials w/o Violating Copyright
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RCPS Acceptable Use Policy
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How to cite your sources
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Son of Citation Machine
Cite any source!
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Time Magazine
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infoplease
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The New York Times
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Google News
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Bartleby: Great Books Online
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Answers.com
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Dictionary/Thesaurus
Teacher Sites
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Carol Hyrst's Children's Literature Site
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Aesop's Fables
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Children's Literature Web Guide
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Language Arts Lesson Plans
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Reading Lesson Plans - all grades
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Read Alouds for Middle Grades
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Clip Art
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Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
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Read, Write, and Think Lessons
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Collection of Power Points
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Language Arts Links
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Reading/Writing Sites
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Creating Rubrics
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Kim's Korner for Teacher Talk
ideas for teaching genre
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Persuasive Writing Lesson
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The "Everything" Site
Listed in ABC order!
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Rubric Generator
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Scholastic Archives
nonfiction articles and activities
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Printable Graphic Organizers
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Easy Street Prompts
Feeling creatively stuck? Great ideas!
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Alliteration, Idioms & Hyperbole
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Teaching the Outsiders
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Elements of Literature Grade 7
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Punctuation PowerPoints
Lots of ppts, quizzes, etc.
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Verb Flashcards
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Reading Writing Resources
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Persuasive Writing Lessons
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Successful Writing Lessons
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All Reading Worksheets
Great teacher resource!
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Order of Events-Sequencing
Virginia Readers' Choice Books
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Owen & Mzee
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Airborn
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Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083
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Punished!
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Hattie Big Sky
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Joyce Moyer Hostetter
Read all about the author of Blue!
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The 3 R's-Reading,'Riting,& Resesarch
Ms. Hostetter's blog
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The Black Book of Secrets
Enter at your own risk!
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The Lemonade War
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Book of a Thousand Days
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Miss Spitfire-Reaching Helen Keller
Irony
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What is irony!
Review the three types!
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Verbal Irony
Definition and examples
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