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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.