Standard 1. Students read and understand a variety of materials. Standard 5. Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience. Standard 2. Students know physical and human ...

3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their ...

Outside my window, a blue jay picks up a seed and flies to a branch. A chickadee lights on the porch, its song like spring in dead of winter. Do I love these birds? I could try to cherish them more, ...

The Creative Zone is a showcase of artwork, poetry, short stories and other creative work by elementary and middle school students. The students in Anna Lindemann and Jessica Macaya’s sixth-grade ...

Situated in Portsmouth's historic Abraham Shaw House facing State Street, Single Island Press has opened its doors and a fresh guest book. Open since January, the small cluster of rooms, connected by ...

February is National Haiku Writing Month. The website nahaiwrimo.com urges us to write one haiku a day for the month of February. "Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s ...

That’s right. Pittsburgh, host city of next week’s G-20 summit, held a haiku contest to come up with the best G-20 haiku. The lucky winner, announced today, is featured in a Journal Page One article.