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1. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Podcast Episode
   Alphabet Books for All Ages
   Find alphabet books to inspire and educate the entire family in this Chatting About Books podcast episode.
2. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Activity & Project
   Digging for Answers: Become a Dinosaur Word Detective
   Scientists have been making dinosaur discoveries for a long, long time. Explore this mysterious world by reading about dinosaurs, solving a crossword puzzle, and building your own puzzle.
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Multimedia Responses to Content Area Topics Using Fact-"Faction"-Fiction
   Students climb into the mind of a spider in this lesson that asks them to compose a spider diary using spider facts, fiction, and "faction"—fiction that sounds like fact.
5. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Printout  |  Writing It Out
   My Nature Story
   Encourage children to ask questions about the natural world, to make observations, and to use their imaginations. They use their findings to create their own book.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Reading and Writing About Pollution to Understand Cause and Effect
   Students get to write a whale of a tale when they complete a graphic organizer sequencing the journey of a mountain fish to a polluted waterway.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 9
   Science writer Seymour Simon was born in 1931.
   Students select and explore a scientific topic in detail using Simon's nonfiction science books and then use what they learn to write original poetry on the topic.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Mobile App  |  Writing Poetry
   Theme Poems
   Users learn about and write theme poems, a poem written within the shape of the subject of the poem.
9. 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.
10. 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.