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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Blending Fiction and Nonfiction to Improve Comprehension and Writing Skills
    Students use a text set to increase understanding of content area material and demonstrate what they have learned by writing an original piece that blends together narrative and expository elements.
12. 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.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Building a Learning Community: Crafting Rules for the Classroom
    Students will learn to mind their ps and qs in this lesson on etiquette and appropriate behavior in the classroom.
14. 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.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Buzz! Whiz! Bang! Using Comic Books to Teach Onomatopoeia
    This lesson is sure to sizzle, not fizzle, as students use comic strips to find onomatopoetic words, develop a vocabulary list from the words, and discuss why writers use onomatopoeia.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Can You Convince Me? Developing Persuasive Writing
    Through a classroom game and resource handouts, students learn about the techniques used in persuasive oral arguments and apply them to independent persuasive writing activities.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Critical Perspectives: Reading and Writing About Slavery
    Students critically explore the moral issue of slavery through reading fiction and nonfiction children's literature about the Underground Railroad, and they extend their understanding through creative writing projects.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Cultural Connections and Writing for Change
    A little understanding can go a long way. After learning about difficulties that Palestinian youths face, students will write a letter to an official discussing these issues.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Dancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry
    Students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems and then brainstorm nouns and verbs to create personification in their own poems.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Delicious, Tasty, Yummy: Enriching Writing with Adjectives and Synonyms
    Students thoroughly explore identifying synonyms and adjectives before using them to add variety and interest to their own writing.

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