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Outdoor Field Trips with Preschoolers: Follow Up!
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Project Approach: Phase 1—Getting Started
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Roland Draws a Garden
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Read and Write Together
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Scribbling as Early Steps to Reading and Writing
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Say Yes to the Mess! Water Works
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Science Lesson Addressing Benchmark 12.A.ECb
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Tools People Use
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Topic Webs in Project Work: Part 2—Organizing the Children’s Web
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Up Up and Away: The Airplane Project
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What’s Next? Predictions at Story Time
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Young Authors at Work: Story Dictations
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Young Authors at Work: Literature Response Journals
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