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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 25
   A Christmas Carol was the first book transmitted over radio!
   Students write a script for A Christmas Carol on a level that primary students can read and perform. Older students record the performance and create a website to showcase photographs.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Beyond "What I Did on Vacation": Exploring the Genre of Travel Writing
   After reading and analyzing short examples of travel writing and discussing conventions of the genre, students write their own travel articles.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Introducing Basic Media Literacy Education Skills with Greeting Cards
   In this lesson, students examine and create holiday/event cards, analyze holiday elements, and create their own. The activities help students focus on the reasons for composing messages as they do.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
   Mystery Cube
   The Mystery Cube helps students identify and summarize story elements in this popular genre. It can be used as a postreading or prewriting activity.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.

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