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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Alaska Native Stories: Using Narrative to Introduce Expository Text
   Tradition and technology come together in this lesson in which students learn about Alaskan animals through Native American tales and their own online research.
2. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Activity & Project
   Amazing Biographies: Writing About People Who Change the World
   After reading about historical figures and other important people that have changed the world, children choose someone that they consider to be "amazing"—either someone they've heard about or someone they know—and create a book page that highlights this person.
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Animate that Haiku!
   Following the traditional form of the haiku, students publish their own haikus using Animoto, an online web tool to produce slideshows that blend text and music.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Artistic Elements: Exploring Art Through Descriptive Writing
   Paint a vivid picture in your reader's mind with good descriptive writing! Artwork provides the perfect starting point for practicing descriptive writing that conveys color, shape, line, and mood.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 10  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 25
   Artist Pablo Picasso was born on this day in 1881.
   Students view a Picasso piece, write their impressions, and share. Students can create their own Picasso-style art using the interactive Picassohead.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Audience & Purpose: Evaluating Disney's Changes to the Hercules Myth
   What drives changes to classic myths and fables? In this lesson students evaluate the changes Disney made to the myth of "Hercules" in order to achieve their audience and purpose.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
   In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
9. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Game & Tool
   Book Cover Creator
   The Book Cover Creator allows users to type and illustrate front and back covers, and full dust jackets.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
    Book Cover Creator
    The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.

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