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• Flower Power-Question and Answer Relationships
  For this final class project, as student in the Nevada Reading Excellence Act Master’s Cohort created a user friendly QAR (Question-Answer Relationships) format to teach students how to answer different types of questions and at the same time build their comprehension.
• Interactive Writing
  For this final class project, a student in the Nevada Reading Excellence Act Master’s Cohort developed a PowerPoint presentation on using interactive writing in the fourth grade. In using this process, the teacher has noted improvement of writing skills for the students in her classroom.
• Character Draws
  For this final class project, students in the Nevada Reading Excellence Act Master’s Cohort developed a lesson plan to assist students in writing about character traits. The lesson plan includes step-by-step instructions and samples of student writing based on this activity.
• Parent Pamphlets for Emergent, Beginning, Transitional and Intermediate Readers
  For this final class project, three students in the Nevada Reading Excellence Act Master’s Cohort developed a series of pamphlets describing readers at four levels. “The purpose of the pamphlets is to allow classroom teachers to use them as tools for parent-teacher conferences.
• Homophone Chutes and Ladders
  For this final class project, a student in the Nevada Reading Excellence Act Master’s Cohort adapted a popular game for classroom use. Included in this link are directions for playing, a high resolution image of the game board, and an answer key.
• Oral Communication
  For this final class project, students in the Nevada Reading Excellence Act Master’s Cohort developed a brochure to assist parents in understanding the importance of oral communication with their children. According to research, storytelling ability in kindergarten children predicts comprehension and vocabulary success in fourth graders.
• Personal Readers for Transitional and Intermediate Students
  For this final class project, three students in the Nevada Reading Excellence Act Master’s Cohort developed a description of use of personal readers with group content dictations, poems, and informational text. A personal reader list and discussion log template is included, along with student samples.
• Personal Game Boards
  Cohort developed adaptations of board games from Words Their Way to use with preschool children, ages two through five. “The children and I made our own adaptations to allow this game to be used in a variety of letter, sound, and concept of word activities in our class.”.
• First Grade Literacy Centers
  For this final class project, a student in the Nevada Reading Excellence Act Master’s Cohort developed a series of class literacy centers. Centers include computers, reading the room, pick a poem, pool reading, math stories, rhyme match, and an ABC game.
• Octopus Arms
  For this final class project, a student in the Nevada Reading Excellence Act Master’s Cohort developed an activity for classroom use. “This activity was developed to help review and reinforce short vowels and word families.” In addition to step-by-step procedures and variations, this link includes downloadable images for the activity.
• Areas of Study with Writing Project
  For this final class project, a student in the Nevada Reading Excellence Act Master’s Cohort developed a lesson plan to assist students in writing a “well-developed, short essay on a content area.” The teacher has included a series of photographs including reading materials and motivators, vocabulary chart, fact chart, and a final draft.
• Role of the NREA Literacy Specialist
  For this final class project, two students in the Nevada Reading Excellence Act Master’s Cohort developed a PowerPoint presentation on their roles as Nevada Reading Excellence Act Literacy Specialists. “Upon completion of this project we feel prepared the next time we are asked to give a presentation.