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SchoolGrants was created in 1999 as a way to share grant information with PK-12 educators.  Grant writing can be intimidating to those who are new at it.  SchoolGrants helps ease those fears by providing online tips to those who need them.  Finding suitable grant opportunities requires a great deal of time and research - SchoolGrants reduces the effort by  listing a variety of opportunities available to public and private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools and districts across the United States.

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Description: A lesson plan from AskEric to combat the pitfalls that characterize 4-6th grade writers. This activity guides students through writing a successful five-sentence paragraph with varied sentence beginnings.

Description: This article appeared in "The Dyslexic Reader," Issue 4, Winter 1996 and is available online at this link. Although it is geared toward teachers of students with learning disabilities, it is a good source of information about the different ways young people learn. It is an excellent resource for teachers who suspect a young person has a learning disability.

Description: From the lesson bank at teachers.net, this lesson by Raymond Bennett, Wattsburg Area Elementary School, Erie, PA, describes how to make a pattern book. Students listen to a story and draw pictures in a pattern that matches the story line, then put together a "new" book. Bennett suggests many books to use for this project.