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updates. Beth Dunning's Story "S" Is for Poetry Each year our
first-grade students research different ocean animals; this year
we decided to research seals. My students spent three weeks
researching, writing, sharing, editing, and then writing again.
When it was finally done, we had a class book…ONE class book. I
mentioned to another teacher about all of the hard work my
students had done on their book. I wanted each of them to take
their research home, but I couldn’t afford to make copies for
each student. She suggested having my students write an acrostic
poem about seals with one of ReadWriteThink.org’s student
interactives. Because of the wide range of ability levels in my
class, I began the activity in a whole-group setting before we
went to the computer lab. Students wrote one word that reminded
them of seals on a sticky note and then we sorted the words by
the letter they began with, paying special attention to words
that began with the let