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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Emotions and Colorful Days

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson learners will learn to write descriptively.
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Handout
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Major Events

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Learn how writers use details to describe major events in a story.
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Website
Other

Indiana Univerisity of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Descriptive Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Activity
Other

Writing Is Exciting!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students and teachers can use this site to find detailed information on effective and creative story writing.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Grammar and Literature Through Digital Storytelling

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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...
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Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Narrative Pyramid

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Empowered Fiction Writers: Generating and Organizing Ideas

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
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...
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Polygon Quiz

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
In this game, students are to number the steps for making cookies in chronological order to reveal a hidden picture.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Doing the Dishes

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
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.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Sequencing a Strategy to Succeed at Reading Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
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...
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Quia

Quia: Sequence: Putting Things in Order

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
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.
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Article
Other

Ncte: Organizing Your Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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,...
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Quia

Quia: Plot Pre Test 7th Grade Remediation

For Students 7th Standards
A four question matching and multiple choice test over plot elements including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Collaborating, Writing, Linking: Use Wiki to Tell Stories Online

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writing a Personal Narrative [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
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...
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Lesson Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: What a Character!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
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...
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Unit Plan
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Project Narration

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring Before, During, After Sequencing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: School Publishers: Test Tutor: Sequence

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Drawing and Writing Stories

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Online lesson which allows elementary young scholars to us the technique of drawing as a tool to create meaningful writing skills in fiction.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Identifying and Writing Effective Opening "Hooks"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
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...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Top Secret Rule Reasons!

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Personal Narrative Writing 3.w.3.3

For Students 3rd Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to images of notes, web sites, and videos that teach students how to write a personal narrative.