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In Primary Grades, students start to retell events in stories.

The Image library includes stickers for many common picture books. You can even add a default image category to a project so that students can simply click and drag to a page to share key details or sequence events in the story. 

After reading a story, such as Mary Wore Her Red Dress by Merle Peek, to your class, ask students to retell the story. For example, students can retell in:

As you work to celebrate Read Across America day, ask your students to help by creating bookmarks that spread the joy of reading. The bookmark template makes it easy for students to start on their own. 

Creating bookmarks is also a great way to get your students thinking about what makes reading enjoyable themselves.

There's a Wocket in My Pocket by Dr. Seuss combines rhyme and nonsense words, providing a fun opportunity to build phonics skills with your students. Challenge your students to build phonics skills by writing this way to create a version of the story for your classroom!

Ask each student to choose a location in a house (or even your classroom) and create a name for an imaginary creature that rhymes with this location. Have each student write and illustrate their page and then use the Project Wizard to combine the pages together for a class book.

If you love this idea, but read literature other than Dr. Seuss for Read Across America, explore these other great pattern stories that make for great student adaptations.  

Make phonics fun for your emerging readers and writers by showing them how effective authors play with language to make their writing interesting. Read Dr. Seuss's Fox in Socks, and put your students in the driver's seat by asking them to use their knowledge of phonics to write their own tongue twister stories.

Experience the magic of Read Across America through engaging character conversations! Using talkies, students can step into the shoes of their favorite characters, posing questions and recording answers. Students can even add a face talkie to any sticker or their own artwork to make it speak like a talkie, adding an extra layer of fun and creativity to their literary explorations.