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11. 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.
12. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   2 – 6  |  Activity & Project
    Batter Up! Telling Sports Stories With Trading Cards
    Summer is the time for baseball! Through the retelling of the 1941 baseball season, children will see two legendary players as characters and can create trading cards that highlight these players.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing
    Bio Cube
    Bio Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography.
14. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Game & Tool
    Bio Cube
    The Bio Cube asks children to summarize information about a person for a biography or autobiography. The activity helps them learn how to identify and shorten key ideas.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 17
    Black Poetry Day is celebrated.
    Books and webpages are gathered that focus on the work of African American poets and students explore the resources and find a poem to contribute to a poetry reading.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Blogging in the Primary Grades? Yes, Indeed!
    Give students an authentic reason to read and write by researching blogs written by their peers around the world and then writing their own.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Building Classroom Community Through the Exploration of Acrostic Poetry
    What do your students think about each other? Find out as you teach them the concepts of acrostic poems and challenge them to write an uplifting acrostic about a classmate.
18. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Activity & Project
    Can Letters Tell a Story?
    Shake up children's summer reading by introducing them to new and fun formats for storytelling.
19. 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.
20. 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.

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