Houghton Mifflin Reading Curriculum Resources
Grade 5, Theme 1: Nature's Fury
Reading-Writing Workshop: Writing a Description
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Houghton Mifflin Reading Web Resources 
Artistic Elements: Exploring Art Through Descriptive Writing: A lesson from ReadWriteThink for descriptive writing.
Writing with Writers: A site from Scholastic that walks students through the writing process for descriptive writing.
Descriptive Writing: A list of activities and sites to use to support writing a description from the Web English Teacher.
Discovery Education Streaming Video Resources 
Search for Discovering Language Arts: Grades 03-05: Writing (clip on Prewriting Skills)
Search for Figurative Language: Polar Penguins
Search for Writing Strategies (clip on Descriptive Words: All About Dogs)
Houghton Mifflin Reading: Prewriting 
Organizing and Planning, page 53B: Description Web Inspiration V8 / Inspiration V7 / PDF
