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1. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Acting Out: Literature, Drama, and Connecting With History
   The article includes recommendations for teachers interested in integrating literature, drama, and history.
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   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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
   CD/DVD Cover Creator
   The CD/DVD Cover Creator allows users to type and illustrate CD and DVD covers and related booklets for liner notes and other information. Students can use the tool to create covers for books, music, and films that they explored as well as to create covers for media they compose individually or as a class.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Color My World: Expanding Meaning Potential through Media
   Using different writing/drawing materials (e.g., markers, color pencils, pastels, etc.), students learn how to communicate different moods and/or feelings to support their written ideas and how authors do the same through their work.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Creative Writing in the Natural World: A Framing
   Students practice writing detailed, sensory-rich descriptions by framing a small piece of nature and freewriting about it. From this minilesson, students can develop a variety of types of writing.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Designing Elements of Story in Little Blue and Little Yellow
    In this series of four lessons, students will explore key elements of design in Little Blue and
    Little Yellow to learn about setting, character relationships, and plot.

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