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Three common routines are seen in almost every K-2 language arts program: morning messages, shared readings, and word walls. These routines should be integrated to support the total language arts program, but are teachers getting the most bang for their buck out of these activities? Morning messages can become very routinized and repeat the same experiences over and over again. Shared readings are sometimes conducted with little variation in spite of changing demands from the texts being used and changing needs in the learners with whom they are being used. Word walls might be put up with...