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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Cultural Connections and Writing for Change
   A little understanding can go a long way. After learning about difficulties that Palestinian youths face, students will write a letter to an official discussing these issues.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Flying to Freedom: Tar Beach and The People Could Fly
   Students look to the past and use historical context to compare and contrast two characters from folktales.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Learning About Research and Writing Using the American Revolution
   Students across the board will get a kick out of researching a historical figure from the American Revolution to create an acrostic poem.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Storytelling in the Social Studies Classroom
   People make the past come alive as students research and then share stories about famous Americans who promoted democratic ideals.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 10
   The Smithsonian Institution was founded in 1846.
   After exploring an exhibit online, students use the information they learned to write "A Day in the Life" narratives that tell about a person, animal, or object they saw in the exhibit.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing
   Trading Card Creator
   This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a variety of topics such as a character in a book, a person or place from history, or even a physical object. An excellent tool to for summarizing or as a prewriting exercise for original stories.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using Historical Fiction to Learn About the Civil War
   Students in grades 4 and 5 discuss inferential comprehension and visualization as they use a think-aloud questioning strategy to develop a deeper understanding of a historical novel.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Writers' Workshop: The Biographical Sketch
   Students use the faces and places they learn about in their research to write a biography about a contemporary or historical figure.