Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Show What Your Mind Sees
This writing activity asks writers to make use of both showing and telling as they create a well-organized paragraph of description. After reviewing showing versus telling by building a writer's notebook page, each writer will show what...
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Writing Fix: Adventurous Magic
This writing activity is inspired by Bruce Coville's Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, and students will be asked to write about an original magical object that they have discovered in the "Elives' Magic Supplies," just as Jeremy does in...
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Writing Fix: A Magical Animal Encounter
This writing lesson is fashioned after Harry Potter's encounter with a communicative boa constrictor at the zoo. Inspired by Rowling's original idea, students will be asked to create a three-part story about an original magical animal...
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Writing Fix: To Imitate Two Nature Writers
In this lesson each writer will compose and revise a "showing" description inpsired by an object or a place in nature. Long before drafting, students will discuss and compare the writing styles and techniques of published authors who...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Prose Poetry Paragraphs
Inspired by the vignettes of Sandra Cisneros, students will write about a familiar thing from their lives. Students will use the style of prose poetry to describe something familiar around their home, school or neighborhood. The final...
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Writing Fix: Make 'Em Laugh or Cry Or
After sharing chapter 19 of Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls as an example of emotion-evoking writing, the young scholars will write their own detailed and emotional paragraphs. Students can draw from background knowledge of a...
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Writing Fix: Moving Through a Machine
After enjoying chapter 3 from Robert McCloskey's classic chapter book Homer Price students will work together to expand upon McCloskey's description of how the donut-making machine works. Focusing on a variety of transitions, students...
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Writing Fix: My Adidas: Letting Your Possessions Tell Your Story
In this lesson, students will listen to Run D.M.C.'s classic, "My Adidas", then they will think about everywhere their shoes have taken them and the story they have to tell. Using literary devices such as personification, point of view,...
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Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Three Meal Weather
Inspired by Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi & Ron Barrett, young scholars will brainstorm adjectives that center around food that might fall from the sky. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner foods will be brainstormed. They will...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Colorful Desert
In this lesson plan, The Colorful Desert, written by Audrey Wood, is used as a mentor text for sentence fluency. The content focus of the lesson is about how sentences build through a "building on" book. Students will use sentence frames...
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Writing Fix: Unique Imaginary Friends
The writer will first create an original imaginary friend, inspired by Ted from Tony DiTerlizzi's wonderful picture book. The writer will then think of an ordinary activity done on a daily basis, like feeding the family dog. The writer...
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Writing Fix: Floating Down a River
Students read Jan Brett's Daisy Comes Home paying attention to all the details Brett adds to her story. Then students write their own stories of traveling down a river and add specific details of their own. Teacher and students...
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Writing Fix: Emotions and Colorful Days
In this lesson students will learn to write descriptively.
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Writing Fix: So Much Depends Upon
In this lesson young scholars will write a descriptive short story based upon 16-word imagery poems they have previously written.
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Writing Fix: Action Words Bring Life to Setting Details [Pdf]
Students learn how to develop their ideas through description and action words through a story scavenger hunt. [PDF]
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Writing Fix: Inventing Stories for Your Favorite Clothes
After reading several clothing descriptions and stories from the J. Peterman Clothing Catalogue, learners imitate the voice of the catalogue to write descriptions and stories of their own clothes. Teacher instructions, printable graphic...
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Writing Fix: Plan an Amazing Sleep Over!
After reading Anne Whitford Paul's book Everything to Spend the Night from A-Z, learners write about a real or imaginary sleepover and what things they should take to make it a wonderful night.
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online: Sensory Details
This site provides several sample sentences which show sensory details and aid students in writing specific rather than general sentences. It is a good site for someone preparing to write a descriptive essay. W.9-10.3d Precise/sensory...
Harold D. Underdown
Derailed by Details
A helpful site for writers which gives the proper perspective in assessing the detail involved in your writing. Provides examples of how to include exciting, relevant details when writing fiction.
Harold D. Underdown
Write Descriptive Passages to Die For
Provides excellent examples of descriptive writing for one needing inspiration. Site is written for those who write literature for children, but can also be applicable to other genres.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Misplaced Modifier
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a misplaced modifier in the context of a sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Modifier
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a modifier in the context of a sentence.
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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...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Plant Inspector
Students will provide a verbal and visual description of plants that are close their homes. The pictures can be published online.