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WEEKLY READER IN YOUR CLASSROOM—MARCH
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Weekly Reader's Topics for Teaching
PRE-K EDITION
Blue whales are big animals! Start a lesson about blue whales by asking children to help you make a list of large animals. Be sure to explain that the blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived. Use the Big Issue to point out the different parts of a whale's body. Ask: Where does a blue whale live? What other animals might live there? Tape butcher paper on a wall and invite children to make a huge wall mural of a whale and other sea animals. Use this month's "musical" make-a-book to teach students about different musical instruments. If possible, collect some musical instruments, display them in the classroom, and invite children to use the instruments. Encourage children to talk about their favorite music. Be sure to end the lesson with some music and dance!
Attention Teachers: Download the Teacher's Guide for more information.
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Print out this month's reproducible BLAST! (Balanced Literacy Activities and Skills for Today!) to help reinforce the beginning letter w sound.
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 KINDERGARTEN EDITION
Make a list of words your students can read. Reinforce decoding skills by talking about the difference between the letters and the words. Guide children in using those words to form other new words. Introduce the map issue by displaying a large map. Ask: What do you see? Encourage discussion. Ask: What does a map show? Why is a map important? How might you use a map? Why is that important? Display the Big Issue and show children where your state is on the map. As a class, make a map of your room–with markings where special silly notes or poems are hidden. Then invite children to look at the map and then say where the notes might be. Invite "explorers" to go to those places and find the notes, guide children in reading them aloud.
Attention Teachers: Download the Teacher's Guide for more information.
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Print out this month's reproducible BLAST! (Balanced Literacy Activities and Skills for Today!)and encourage children to practice saying and writing beginning letter sounds.
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 GRADE 1 EDITION
Talk about helpers. Ask: How might we help others? Why is it important to help others? Are all helpers people? Use this issue as a springboard for a lesson about caring and citizenship. Visit the library! Let children know that a library is filled with information about many different topics. Explain the proper uses of the library, and introduce children to the various things that they might find there. Also included this month is an issue about wind.
The activity on the back page reinforces chart-reading skills. Use the issue about ants to show that ants are everywhere! This issue will teach students the various characteristics of ants and how they live. It's a great science lesson about a popular insect.
Attention Teachers: Download the Teacher's Guide for more information.
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What vowel is missing? Print out the March Reproducible Calendar for an activity to help teach students to connect vowels sounds and letters.
 GRADE 2 EDITION
Weekly Reader, Edition 2 kicks off the month by introducing incredible inventions that have changed since their very first models. From telephones to clocks, this issue features information about some popular inventions people use every day. Students will also use a chart to learn some fun facts about a few inventions they know and love, including Popsicles, video games, and blue jeans.
Feeling a bit wild this month? It's probably just the weather. Our weather issue presents the truth about some predictable March weather—tornadoes, thunderstorms, blizzards, and more. The different types of clouds are also outlined. Each issue includes a Whiskers's Corner for an important lesson in citizenship and an activity that tests students' understanding.
Attention Teachers: Download the Grade 2 Edition, Issue 20, Teacher's Guide for more information.
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 GRADE 3 EDITION
March is National Nutrition Month. Weekly Reader, Edition 3 features a cover story about the food industry's use of television marketing to promote junk food to children.
The next cover story in March focuses on coral reefs and how scientists are using new technology to monitor Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Both issues also include stories in honor of Women's History Month. Happy reading!
Attention Teachers: Download the Grade 3 Edition, Issue 20, Teacher's Guide.
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 GRADE 4 EDITION
What's on your school lunch menu? In honor of National Nutrition Month, Weekly Reader, Edition 4 looks at how school officials around the country are revamping lunch programs to help kids develop healthful eating habits. Later this month, students will learn about 27 new creepy crawlers discovered in caves in California. And as students get ready to celebrate Women's History Month, they will read about women leaders who were recently elected to office in Chile, Liberia, and Germany. Students will take a look into the lives of these powerful women and the challenges facing their countries. Each issue this month is packed with reading comprehension questions, along with maps, graphs, and charts.
Attention Teachers: Download Grade 4 Edition, Issue 20, Teacher's Guide.
 SENIOR EDITION
Weekly Reader's Topics for Teaching
This month, Senior Edition tackles illegal immigration. Since 2001, an estimated 3.7 million people have entered the Untied States illegally. Students will learn why illegal immigrants come to the United States and how U.S. officials are responding to the growing number of illegal immigrants crossing over the border.
In other issues this month, students will learn about three countries that recently elected female leaders, the discovery of the oldest known Mayan mural, and the controversy over nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea. Each issue is packed with pictures, charts, maps, and graphs to help bring the stories to life.
Also this month, you will receive the Spring Literacy Skills Assessment and a full-color poster about kids throughout U.S. history.
Attention Teachers: Download the Senior Edition, Issue 20, Teacher's Guide for more information.
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