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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 31
   Celebrate Halloween!
   Students research information on Halloween, create masks or costumes from a text they are reading, or write a narrative essay describing their best Halloween ever.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 20
   Celebrate the National Day on Writing!
   Students examine the different ways that they write and think about the role writing plays in life.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Seasonal Haiku: Writing Poems to Celebrate Any Season
   After listening to haiku poetry, students use seasonal descriptive words to write their own haiku, following the traditional format. They then publish their poems by mounting them on illustrated backgrounds.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing Poetry
   Theme Poems
   Formerly known as Shape Poems, this online tool allows elementary students to write poems in various shapes.
5. 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.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 7  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 29
   Today is Leap Day!
   Our solar year is 365.24219 days. Since our calendar does not deal in partial days, every four years, we add an additional day to February.
7. 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.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 14
   Valentine's Day is today!
   Students find examples of figurative language and write an original example of each device, illustrate, and share them with the class.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Mobile App  |  Writing Poetry
   Word Mover
   Word Mover allows children and teens to create "found poetry" by choosing from word banks and existing famous works; additionally, users can add new words to create a piece of poetry by moving/manipulating the text.
10. 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.