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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Cooking Up Descriptive Language: Designing Restaurant Menus
   Students explore the menu genre by analyzing existing menus from local restaurants. They review adjectives and descriptive writing and then work in groups to create their own custom menus.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Describe That Face: An Interactive Writing Game
   Students write descriptions of characters, incorporate new vocabulary words, practice using simile and metaphor, engage in peer editing, and post their revised descriptions on the walls for a matching game.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Found Poems/Parallel Poems
   Students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Polishing Preposition Skills through Poetry and Publication
   Students deepen and refine their understanding of prepositions by reading Ruth Heller's Behind the Mask. They write preposition poetry and create a study guide using an online tool.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Slipping, Sliding, Tumbling: Reinforcing Cause and Effect Through Diamante Poems
   Writing, revising, and publishing are just a few of the tasks students will complete in order to take their cause-and-effect diamante poems from an idea to a reality.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Magnetism of Language: Parts of Speech, Poetry, and Word Play
   What wonderful ways words work! The parts of speech are the highlight of this lesson in which students identify parts of speech in a nonsensical poem and then create their own wild and wacky rhymes.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   You Can't Spell the Word Prefix Without a Prefix
   Students explore the role of prefixes, as well as their origins and meanings, and examine how the understanding of prefixes can improve comprehension, decoding, and spelling.