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41. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
    Fractured Fairy Tales
    The Fractured Fairy Tale tool encourages students to create their own fractured fairy tales.
42. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Getting to Know You: Developing Short Biographies to Build Community
    How well do your students know their peers? Students transform into investigative reporters as they interview a classmate, compile the biographical data into graphic form, and introduce the student to the class.
    
43. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 3
    Gwendolyn Brooks published Bronzeville Boys and Girls in 1956.
    After students have read and discussed several poems from Brooks' collection, they create a poetry anthology for their own family, neighborhood, or classroom.
44. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 6  |  Printout  |  Writing Starter
    Haiku Starter
    This graphic organizer provides students the opportunity to brainstorm words about a given topic, count and record the syllables, and draft a haiku.
45. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Tip & How-To
    Help a Child Write a Poem
    Encourage creativity and word play by helping a child recognize the elements of a poem and explore different ways of writing one.
    
46. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    How-To Writing: Motivating Students to Write for a Real Purpose
    It's not easy surviving fourth grade (or third or fifth)! In this lesson, students brainstorm survival tips for future fourth graders and incorporate those tips into an essay.
47. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 3
    In 1927, Joan Lowery Nixon was born.
    As a class, a genre study of mysteries takes place and a chart is made about what makes a good mystery.
48. Professional Development | Grades   K – 3  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Informational Text in K-3 Classrooms: Helping Children Read and Write
    Learn how to integrate informational text into early reading instruction.
49. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 3  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Jazz Up Writing Workshop: Writing Biographies of African American Jazz Musicians
    During writing workshop, students research, write, revise, and share their own comprehensive biographies of African American jazz musicians.
50. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Learning About Research and Writing Using the American Revolution
    Students across the board will get a kick out of researching a historical figure from the American Revolution to create an acrostic poem.

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