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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Cosmic Oranges: Observation and Inquiry Through Descriptive Writing and Art
   Students will eat up this lesson about oranges as they practice the skills that help them investigate and make detailed observations for descriptive purposes.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm
   Students often believe that fiction writers make everything up, seldom realizing how research worms its way into entertaining writing. In this lesson, students read Diary of a Worm to find out how fact merges with fiction.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Four Simple Steps to Small-Group Guided Writing
   Students will go batty about the three writing strategies they learn in this lesson centered on Nicola Davies' Bat Loves the Night.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Integrating Literacy Into the Study of the Earth's Surface
   Water covers 71% of the earth's surface—does it get the instructional time it deserves in your busy curriculum? Students wade right in to the study of bodies of water as they read and discuss science trade books and work together to develop Readers Theater scripts based on selected titles.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 5  |  Calendar Activity  |  November 3
   Stellaluna author Janell Cannon was born in 1957.
   After reading Stellaluna, students discuss themes in the story and do a unit on bats or a creative writing activity based on the book.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Weather Detectives: Questioning the Fact and Folklore of Weather Sayings
   Students adopt a skeptical stance and become weather detectives who ask "Why?" and "Why not?" as they investigate the history and validity of some common weather sayings.