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- Celebrating 100 Years of Flight
- Celebrating 100 Years of Flight Teacher's Guide
100 Years of Flight allows your students to explore the history, science and adventure of humankind's journey through the air.
- Internet Field Trips
- The 100th Day of School
K-2
Find ideas to celebrate the 100th day of school in your classroom.
- Lesson Plans
- American History Writing Prompts
6-8
Historical facts about Jesse James, the Pont Express, and more make great writing prompts. (PDF) Source: American History Writing Prompts
- Celebrate the 100th Day of School
K-2
Celebrate the 100th day of school with great classroom-tested lesson plans for each curriculum area.
- Justice by the People: An Introduction
6-8
An introduction to the "Justice by the People" curriculum program about the 7th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
- Light the Spark
6-8
Resources to help encourage kids with learning difficulties succeed in school and life.
- Puzzled Over Paragraphs?
3-5
A+ activities to help kids master the building blocks of great writing.
- The Answer to Better Writing? Better Questions!
K-2, 3-5
Support children by looking for questions as they work -- questions that encourage more thinking and, ultimately, writing.
- The Possibilities of Words
6-8
A free-writing exercise draws on children's own life experiences and relates them to the American dream.
- The Writing Edge! Research Reports
6-8
Motivate and inspire your students to become better writers as they learn lifelong research skills.
- Unit Plan: Creating a Newspaper Article using Greek Mythology
6-8
Make up newspaper articles about mythical characters and what happens when they invade the modern-day city of Los Angeles.
- Unit Plan: Creative Writing in the Math Classroom
6-8
This unit combines knowledge of current events with traditional math skills; culminating in a fun performance event that allows students to create their own solutions to the problem.
- Unit Plan: Extra! Extra! Titanic Sinks
3-5
Step back in time and create a newspaper page filled with facts about the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
- Unit Plan: Fiction vs. Nonfiction
6-8
Learn to identify writing as fiction or nonfiction with these activities.
- Unit Plan: Our City and State
K-2
Respond to fractured fairy tales by writing in many styles, including a persuasive essay, a personal narrative, a letter of complaint, an advertisement, and even a resume.
- Unit Plan: Outlining and Delivering an Oral Presentation
6-8
Learn how to outline a piece of expository reading material, such as an article, and use it to deliver a speech.
- Unit Plan: Women in History: Research for Expository Writing
6-8
Read nonfiction literature to learn about Amelia Earhart and write a short newspaper article.
- Writers' Workshop: Fiction
3-5, 6-8
Fiction-writing lessons from the Teachers and Writers Collaborative.
- Writers' Workshop: Nonfiction
3-5, 6-8
Nonfiction writing lessons from the Teachers and Writers Collaborative
- Writing and Scholarship Planning for College-Bound Students
6-8
Use expository and persuasive writing skills and master basic principles of financial management.
- Writing From Experience: Movies and Memories
3-5, 6-8
Learn about filmed entertainment and its role in telling stories of the past, present, and future.
- Online Activities Teacher Guides
- Dinosaurs! Teacher's Guide
Lesson planning suggestions for use of the Dinosaur! online activity in the classroom.
- World War II Remembered: Teacher's Guide
Lesson-planning suggestions for using the "World War II Remembered" online activity in the classroom.
- Writing With Writers Teacher's Guide
Teacher's guide for the Writing with Writers workshops.
- Writing Workshops Teacher's Guide
A Guide for the online writing workshops
- Reproducibles
- Expository and Narrative Prompts
3-5
Give students practice in distinguishing between expository and narrative prompts. (PDF) Source: 10 Easy Writing Lessons That Get Kids Ready for Writing Assignments
- I Am Thankful
K-2
Students practice writing skills as they create this Thanksgiving mini-book. (PDF)
- Pilgrim Postcards
K-2
Pretend to be Pilgrim children sending postcards back to Holland and England. (PDF) Source: Fresh and Fun: Thanksgiving
- Spin-A-Story Writing Prompts Chart
K-2, 3-5
Use this chart to outline the details of your stories – character, plot, and setting. (PDF) Source: Spin-A-Story Writing Prompts Chart
- What a Character!
3-5, 6-8
Help children develop characters and allow them to assess their own writing. (PDF) Source: 40 Rubrics and Checklists to Assess Reading and Writing
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