Indiana has decided NOT to follow the common core standards. I have made a fabulous checklist for the Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening, and Media Literacy Standards that we are to now follow. This checklist was made following the release of the standards on April 28, 2014. The checklist

"Melvin The Elf" is a poem created by me that is the basis for this Christmas themed literacy unit. The poem itself has an excellent cross-curricular opportunity to be acted out as a dramatic class or school play. The activities included in this package, cover the strands of reading, writing, oral