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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Descriptive Video: Using Media Technology to Enhance Writing
   Students will have a roaring good time when they watch a scene from The Lion King as a way to compare standard and described programming media.
   
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Earth Verse: Using Science in Poetry
   Students shape up their reading, writing, and listening skills in this lesson by creating original diamante, acrostic, and shape poems about science.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Gabbing About Garfield: Conversing About Texts With Comic Creator
   Students will definitely get animated as they discuss comics' features and designs, and they're sure to enjoy the lesson's punch line assignment: creating a comic strip of their own.
   
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Multimedia Responses to Content Area Topics Using Fact-"Faction"-Fiction
   Students climb into the mind of a spider in this lesson that asks them to compose a spider diary using spider facts, fiction, and "faction"—fiction that sounds like fact.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Rooting Out Meaning: Morpheme Match-Ups in the Primary Grades
   In this lesson, students use morphemes—English words that have been formed by combining common word parts—to explore word meanings.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Writing Acrostic Poems with Thematically Related Texts in the Content Areas
   Students read thematically related texts, scaffolded from simple to complex, to help them gather necessary concept vocabulary and background knowledge in a content area. They then write acrostic poems to organize and present their learning in a creative way.