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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   K – 8  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
   Book Cover Creator
   The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.
3. 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.
4. 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.
   
5. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide Series
   Developing Academic Vocabulary
   In this Strategy Guide Series, you'll find creative and compatible ways to build, maintain, and extend students' vocabulary across academic disciplines.
6. 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.
7. 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.
   
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Guided Comprehension: Knowing How Words Work Using Semantic Feature Analysis
   Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of knowing how words work.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 23
   In 1564, William Shakespeare was born on this day.
   Based on grade level, students learn about rhyming structure, experiment with the Shakespearean Insult Kit, or study scenes from Othello and watch an adaptation of that scene from the movie O.
10. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Activity & Project
    Let's Go On A Poetry Walk!
    The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and you're surrounded by brilliant shades of green! Observe and collect sensory images from nature and use the sights, sounds, smells, and textures to create original nature poetry.

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