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Writing Fix: Special Places to Love: Thoughtful Prepositional Phrases

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students learn to write meaningful prepositional phrases in order to evoke thoughtful word choice.
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Writing Fix: Showing With Participial Phrases

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will learn how to combine sentences by utilizing participial phrases
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Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
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Writing Fix: Dialogue Adventures

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan students will learn how to write dialogue in a particular voice.
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Writing Fix: A Chapter Book Writing Lesson: Creating a Parallel World

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Inspired by the opening events in The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman, learners are asked to create an original parallel world that is similar to ours but different in certain ways. They will focus on the similarities and differences...
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Writing Fix: A Chapter Book Writing Lesson: Rules and Things for a Funner Life

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Each writer will brainstorm experiences where he/she has learned some sort of instructional activity about life. Each will then come up with a personal list of "Rules and Things for a Funner Life," such as those shared in Bud, Not Buddy...
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Writing Fix: A Chapter Book Writing Lesson: Beyond Once Upon a Time

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Students are so used to hearing stories that start with the words Once upon a time and when writing their own stories, they often begin with these same words or with variations like One day I. Inspired by the novel Crispin by Avi This...
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Writing Fix: Inventing Stories for Your Favorite Clothes

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this instructional activity students will write descriptors for a clothes catalogue.
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Writing Fix: Painting Places With Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson learners learn how to paint a setting with their descriptive choice of words.
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Writing Fix: Character Credo Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Build your student's vocabulary, word choice and voice by asking them to write from the perspective of a particular character. Lesson plan incorporates the R.A.F.T.S. strategy: role, audience, format, topic and strong verb.
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Writing Fix: How Big Was Hagrid?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson young scholars will decide mathematically how large Hagrid, from the Harry Potter series, is through their reading of persuasive techniques.
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Writing Fix: Emotions and Colorful Days

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson young scholars will learn to write descriptively.
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Writing Fix: Poems of Apology

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will write an original poem for forgiveness after reading the poem "This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams and poems from the book "This is Just to Say" by Joyce Sidman.
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Writing Fix: Between Repeated Lines

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will write a poem about someone they love after they have brainstormed an original idea.
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Writing Fix: Paulsen Inspired Nature Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will write a poem based on the descriptors in one of Gary Paulson's novels.
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Writing Fix: The Backwards Writing Assignment

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will create a backwards poem based on descriptive settings and characters.
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Writing Fix: Just Because Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To be taught in concordance with The Lord of the Flies, this lesson teaches students how to give a voice to some of those not being heard on the island.
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Writing Fix: Turning Point Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will analyze Ellen Hopkins' Crank for word choice, voice and idea development.
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Writing Fix: Poems of Condition

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson the students will use the conditional "if" in order to guide their reader to become someone or something.
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Writing Fix: Hate to Love Sonnets

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will learn the meter and form of a sonnet and write one of their own regarding something they either love or hate.
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Writing Fix: How Do I Love Sonnets

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan students will learn the meter and rhyme of a sonnet and they will write one of their own using specific word choice.
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Writing Fix: Death Personified

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, young scholars will personify an object within a poem. They will focus on voice and word choice in order to fully convey their message.
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Writing Fix: Different Ways of Looking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will use the sentence structure from Wallace Stevens' "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
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Writing Fix: By Far the Best Book Ever [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
In Chris Van Allsburgh's The Z Was Zapped students will see the value of precise word choice by incorporating alliteration. Turn the material into a mini activity without the book. [PDF]