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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 11
   Author E.B. White was born on this day in 1899.
   Author E.B. White, most well-known for his famous children's book, Charlotte's Web, received high acclaim and awards for many of his works of fiction.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Creative Writing in the Natural World: A Framing
   Students practice writing detailed, sensory-rich descriptions by framing a small piece of nature and freewriting about it. From this minilesson, students can develop a variety of types of writing.
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Glogging About Natural Disasters
   After researching various natural disasters, students share their findings with each other using glogs, or through poster presentations.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Learning about Clouds with Haikus
   Using a mobile app or Interactive activity, students write haikus describing various types of clouds that they have studied.
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   K – 6  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 20
   On this day in 1910, animal rights activist Joy Adamson was born.
   A KWL chart is used to organize information about lions. Persuasive letters are written lobbying for programs and resources to protect these animals.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Printout  |  Writing Starter
   RAFT Writing Template
   Students can utilize this printout to organize their writing as they learn to use the RAFT strategy. This printout enables students to clearly define their role, audience, format, and topic for writing.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Reading and Writing About Pollution to Understand Cause and Effect
   Students get to write a whale of a tale when they complete a graphic organizer sequencing the journey of a mountain fish to a polluted waterway.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 9
    Science writer Seymour Simon was born in 1931.
    Students select and explore a scientific topic in detail using Simon's nonfiction science books and then use what they learn to write original poetry on the topic.

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