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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Astronomy Poetry: Combining Poetry With the Content Areas
   Students' responses to this lesson will be out of this world after they've researched astronomy to write poetry and compile a poetry book.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Building Vocabulary: Making Multigenre Glossaries Based on Student Inquiry
   Students choose unfamiliar words from their reading and create a multigenre, multimodal glossary of terms.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 16
   Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
   Students play a variation of the game Balderdash to practice vocabulary.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Expository Escapade—Detective's Handbook
   Students create a Detective's Handbook based on a detective mystery they have read. The handbooks include expository and descriptive writing, as well as a letter.
   
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Using a Word Journal to Create a Personal Dictionary
   Students will be the definition of vocabulary experts as they use the skills they learn in this lesson to track, define, and ultimately master unfamiliar words.