Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Emotions and Colorful Days
In this lesson learners will learn to write descriptively.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Major Events
Learn how writers use details to describe major events in a story.
Other
Indiana Univerisity of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Descriptive Writing
This website from the Writing Center at Indiana Univerisity of Pennsylvania focuses on descriptive writing. It includes discussion and examples of the following: Creating a dominant impression or mood, using sensory details, using vivid...
Other
Writing Is Exciting!
Students and teachers can use this site to find detailed information on effective and creative story writing.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Grammar and Literature Through Digital Storytelling
In this lesson students create digital stories in cooperative groups using multimedia tools to demonstrate comprehension of the elements of grammar, literature, and technology introduced in the lesson. Students become actively involved...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Narrative Pyramid
A printable narrative pyramid where students can record information about a story including the character, setting, problem, main events, and solution. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organize as well as lists of teaching...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Empowered Fiction Writers: Generating and Organizing Ideas
Do your students' minds go blank when they confront a blank piece of paper? Speedwriting can help them get started with writing as well as come up with topics to write about. They can then incorporate their key ideas and phrases into a...
Quia
Quia: Polygon Quiz
In this game, students are to number the steps for making cookies in chronological order to reveal a hidden picture.
Quia
Quia: Doing the Dishes
In this game, students are to read all nine steps to making homemade pizza and then number them in chronological order to reveal a hidden picture. Java is required.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
This series of lessons involves student collaboration, writing and analytical skills, technology and imagination. While the instructional activity suggests use of FrontPage, it would also be possible to use a number of other authoring...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Sequencing a Strategy to Succeed at Reading Comprehension
Contains plans for lessons that use the story of Paul Bunyan to teach about sequencing and order of events. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
Quia
Quia: Sequence: Putting Things in Order
Using clue words, students are asked to number a list of events in order from 1-10 and then check answers. Students have up to three attempts to solve.
Other
Ncte: Organizing Your Writing
This PDF article explains five different patterns of organization to help students select an organization that matches the purpose of their writing so that the audience can more easily follow along. The patterns are sequential, spatial,...
Quia
Quia: Plot Pre Test 7th Grade Remediation
A four question matching and multiple choice test over plot elements including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Collaborating, Writing, Linking: Use Wiki to Tell Stories Online
This lesson plan has learners create stories that reflect wiki kind of reading. Students begin by reading untraditional books that use fragmented storylines, multiple perspectives, and unresolved plots. They apply these same types of...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writing a Personal Narrative [Pdf]
A middle school student model of personal narrative writing. Includes a good writing style, examples, and very good notes and annotations as helpful aids for writing success. Points out the introduction, sequence of events and how they...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: What a Character!
In this lesson, students analyze how a character's personality traits, actions, and motives influence the plot of a story. Students also learn how storytellers use their face, body, and voice, as well as the five senses, to enhance the...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Project Narration
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers for narrative writing. Students will be able to prewrite and draft their narrative writings more efficiently by using these tools.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Before, During, After Sequencing
From Read-Write-Think, here is a three-day lesson plan in which a class collaborates to produce a book, focusing on carving a jack-o-lantern. The emphasis is on teaching the skill of sequencing events.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: School Publishers: Test Tutor: Sequence
Students will increase their reading comprehension skills and understanding of story sequence by reading a passage of text and then answering questions about the order of events.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Drawing and Writing Stories
Online lesson which allows elementary young scholars to us the technique of drawing as a tool to create meaningful writing skills in fiction.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Identifying and Writing Effective Opening "Hooks"
Contains plans for four lessons that teach students to write effective "hooks," or beginnings, to their writing. They read the introductions of fiction passages and analyze the techniques they use before applying these techniques in...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Top Secret Rule Reasons!
In The Secret Knowledge of Grown-ups, David Wisniewski uses a pattern throughout his book. A grown-up rule is shared, the grown-up reason for the rule is shared, and the "real" reason for the rule is revealed in a fantastic tale. This...
TES Global
Blendspace: Personal Narrative Writing 3.w.3.3
A twelve-part learning module with links to images of notes, web sites, and videos that teach students how to write a personal narrative.