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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Musical Prompt: Postcards From the Concert
   Students won't miss a beat in this musical lesson that combines listening with personal response on a postcard.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Can You Convince Me? Developing Persuasive Writing
   Through a classroom game and resource handouts, students learn about the techniques used in persuasive oral arguments and apply them to independent persuasive writing activities.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Creative Writing in the Natural World: A Framing
   Students practice writing detailed, sensory-rich descriptions by framing a small piece of nature and freewriting about it. From this minilesson, students can develop a variety of types of writing.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Earth Verse: Using Science in Poetry
   Students shape up their reading, writing, and listening skills in this lesson by creating original diamante, acrostic, and shape poems about science.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Make a Splash! Using Dramatic Experience to "Explode the Moment"
   Students will have a blast as they use descriptive language to write about an "explosive" and dramatic moment in their lives.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Once They're Hooked, Reel Them In: Writing Good Endings
   It's important to "hook" readers at a story's beginning, but it's equally important to keep them interested. In this lesson, students learn to write effective conclusions to their own stories.
   
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Promoting Cultural Values Through Alphabet Books
   C is for Culture in this lesson in which students research a culture different from their own and compile an alphabet book that showcases cultural symbols for each letter of the alphabet.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Reading, Writing, Haiku Hiking! A Class Book of Picturesque Poems
   Students learn haiku
   write descriptive poems
   and share with the class.
   
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Seasonal Haiku: Writing Poems to Celebrate Any Season
   After listening to haiku poetry, students use seasonal descriptive words to write their own haiku, following the traditional format. They then publish their poems by mounting them on illustrated backgrounds.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Thoughtshots Can Bring Your Characters to Life!
    Students will walk a mile in the shoes of Solomon Singer as they learn how to use flashbacks, flash-aheads, and internal dialogue to develop realistic characters.

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