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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A-B-C: It's Easy as 1-2-3 to Make Math Alphabet Books
   Using the Alphabet Organizer app, students create alphabet books to review math terms.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Charlotte is Wise, Patient, and Caring: Adjectives and Character Traits
   Students find examples of adjectives in a shared reading. Then students "become" major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using powerful adjectives.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Learning to Learn with Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster
   Modeled on the activities in Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster, a picture book, students combine vocabulary exploration with word play by planning their own vocabulary parade.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Poetry from Prose
   Working in small groups, students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Powerful Writing: Description in Creating Monster Trading Cards
   Students create their own monster trading cards using "powerful," vivid language to describe their creatures.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Vocabulary Solutions: A Mixture of Science, Conversation, and Writing
   In this lesson, students conduct a science experiment and later discuss the events of the lab during shared writing. Students explain the procedure in their own words and then revise to include content specific vocabulary. Finally, students reflect on new words added to their writing using the Trading Card Creator interactive.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Writing Acrostic Poems with Thematically Related Texts in the Content Areas
   Students read thematically related texts, scaffolded from simple to complex, to help them gather necessary concept vocabulary and background knowledge in a content area. They then write acrostic poems to organize and present their learning in a creative way.