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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Alliteration All Around
   Students learn about alliteration, and then practice using alliteration in acrostic poems, tongue twisters, alphabet books, and number books.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Once Upon a Time Rethought: Writing Fractured Fairy Tales
   Students read and analyze fairy tales, identifying their common elements. They then write their own "fractured" fairy tales by changing one of the literary elements found in the original.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Thoughtshots Can Bring Your Characters to Life!
   Students will walk a mile in the shoes of Solomon Singer as they learn how to use flashbacks, flash-aheads, and internal dialogue to develop realistic characters.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Thundering Tall Tales: Using Read-Aloud as a Springboard to Writing
   Imagination and application are key to this tall tale lesson in which students take what they know about tall tales to spin a yarn of their own.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 18
   Today is Chris Van Allsburg's birthday.
   Students explore varying points of view, one of Van Allsburg's common themes, by rewriting a traditional story.