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61. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using Picture Books to Teach Plot Development and Conflict Resolution
    Students read picture books to explore the concepts of plot development and conflict resolution. They first learn about the connections between reading and writing, and then revise their own writing.
62. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using Picture Books to Teach Setting Development in Writing Workshop
    Students use a graphic organizer to analyze setting development in picture books. They then apply what they have learned to their own writing.
63. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using Word Webs to Teach Synonyms for Commonly Used Words
    Students use word webs to choose synonyms for generic adjectives and to learn to adjust their word usage for different contexts.
64. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using Writing and Role-Play to Engage the Reluctant Writer
    What does the world look like through a javelina's eyes? Students become javelinas in this lesson when they analyze a character and write from his or her perspective.
65. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Vocabulary Solutions: A Mixture of Science, Conversation, and Writing
    In this lesson, students conduct a science experiment and later discuss the events of the lab during shared writing. Students explain the procedure in their own words and then revise to include content specific vocabulary. Finally, students reflect on new words added to their writing using the Trading Card Creator interactive.
66. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Wartime Poetry: Working With Similes
    Students analyze a photograph, brainstorm words to describe the characters' senses and feelings, work in pairs to describe a character's experience, and create a poem using their ideas and similes.
    
67. 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.
68. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    What's in a Mystery? Exploring and Identifying Mystery Elements
    Students identify the characteristics of mystery writing, outline a mystery story using a graphic organizer, write and revise their own mystery story, edit each other's work, and share their mysteries.
69. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Who's Got Mail? Using Literature to Promote Authentic Letter Writing
    Students discuss and chart letter elements and write their own letters to adults at school, reinforcing letter-writing skills beyond the classroom lesson.
70. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Writing Acrostic Poems with Thematically Related Texts in the Content Areas
    Students read thematically related texts, scaffolded from simple to complex, to help them gather necessary concept vocabulary and background knowledge in a content area. They then write acrostic poems to organize and present their learning in a creative way.

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