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Shaped Staff

The Shaped Staff is a group of writers and editors with extensive and varied backgrounds in education—consisting of the Content Marketing team at HMH. Together, they bring expertise in education journalism, content development, copywriting—as well as teaching experience in the elementary grades and secondary English and math.

The Content Marketing team includes Christine Condon, senior director of content marketing; Richard Blankman, marketing director; Zoe Del Mar, senior content marketing manager; Brenda Iasevoli, senior content marketing manager; Alicia Ivory, senior copywriter; and Jennifer Corujo, content marketing manager.

They can be reached at Shaped@hmhco.com.

 
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Kindergarten Summer Reading Activities: Incredible Insects

Welcome to Incredible Insects! We’ll provide five days of reading and learning activities designed to engage your child in an exploration of butterflies, bees, and other bugs.

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Grades 1–2 Summer Reading Activities: Incredible Insects

Welcome to Incredible Insects! We’ll provide five days of reading and learning activities designed to engage your child in an exploration of butterflies, bees, and other bugs.

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Grades 9-12 Math Activity Set 4: Measures of Central Tendency and More

Help students gain greater understanding of measures of central tendency and dispersion, outliers, transformations of data, and sampling techniques.

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Grades 6–8 Math Activity Set 4: Sweet Success and More

Help students build their skills in working with fractions, decimals, ratios, and percent.

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Grade 3 Math Activity: In Our Corner of Space

Help students gain understanding of informational text through active reading.

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Teaching World History: World War II Lesson Plan and Activities

Down these World War II lesson plans and activities to teach your students about the war in history that claimed at least 50 million lives worldwide.

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Teaching Supreme Court Cases: Prayer in Schools and the First Amendment

Download this free Wallace v. Jaffree lesson plan to teach students about an important Supreme Court case regarding prayer in schools and the First Amendment.

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Grades 1–2 Daily Reading Activities: Let's Eat

Engage your child in an exploration of food and how it is important in our lives.

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Grades 3–5 Daily Reading Activities: Let's Eat!

Have your children in Grades 3-5 explore food and how it is important in our lives.

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Kindergarten Daily Reading Activities: Let's Eat

Discover five days of reading lessons designed to engage your child in an exploration of food and how it is important in our lives.

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Grades 6–8 ELA Activity Set 8: Analyze a Media Message and More

For this week's activities, students can create how-to videos, analyze media messages, and respond to summer writing prompts.

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Grades 9–12 ELA Activity Set 8: Synthesize Information and More

For this week's activities, students can create a how-to video, use research to defend their stance on an issue, and respond to summer writing prompts.

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Grades 9-12 Math Activity Set 3: Geometric Probability and More

Help students build their skills in the areas of geometric probability, characterizing data, data displays, and matrices.

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Grades 6–8 ELA Activity Set 7: Synonyms and Antonyms Crossword Puzzle and More

Teach students about synonyms and antonyms and have them create a How-To Tech Guide with these activities for middle schoolers.

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Grade 5 Math Activity: In the Chef's Kitchen

Help children in Grade 5 strengthen their ability to use operations with whole numbers and sharpen their measurement skills with this activity.

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Grades 1–2 Daily Reading Activities: Creativity Counts

Engage your child in an exploration of arts and creativity with five days of activities.

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Kindergarten Daily Reading Activities: Creativity Counts

Discover five days of reading lessons designed to engage your child in an exploration of arts and creativity.

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