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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Musical Prompt: Postcards From the Concert
   Students won't miss a beat in this musical lesson that combines listening with personal response on a postcard.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing and Comparing Medieval and Modern Ballads
   Students explore the ballads genre by reading medieval ballads to deduce their characteristics, acting out the ballads, comparing medieval and modern ballads using Venn diagrams, and composing their own ballads.
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blurring Genre: Exploring Fiction and Nonfiction with Diary of a Worm
   After reading several examples of how a published author incorporates facts in fiction writing, students research a topic of their choice and write fictional diary entries that incorporate factual information.
5. 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.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Composing Cinquain Poems with Basic Parts of Speech
   Reinforce student understanding of parts of speech through the analysis of sample cinquain poems followed by the creation of original cinquains.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities between Writing and Art
   Graphic organizers assist the development of comparative vocabulary and generate discussions of analogy and metaphor in art as students go on a real or virtual tour of an art gallery.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Cultural Connections and Writing for Change
   A little understanding can go a long way. After learning about difficulties that Palestinian youths face, students will write a letter to an official discussing these issues.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Designing Museum Exhibits for The Grapes of Wrath: A Multigenre Project
   Using The Grapes of Wrath as a backdrop, students conduct research on issues that the novel addresses, publishing their findings in a multigenre museum exhibit.
10. 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.

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