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Education.com: W.3.3 B Worksheets: Use Dialogue and Descriptions
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 30 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.3.3B: Write Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Fools and Tricksters in Literature
There are many trickster folk tales in folklore and in modern literature; they are found in every culture. They often use an animal that represents the underdog, which uses skill and cunning to outwit a superior. These stories have been...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Sandwich Story Starters
These simple activities actively reinforce the importance of writing a story that is complete: one that has a good, solid beginning; a middle of substance, detail, and high interest; and a satisfying ending.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Expository vs Narrative Intros
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives examples of expository and narrative introductions. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.a
Writing Fix
Writing Fix:a Right Brained Writing Prompt: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter S
Students use the alliteration generator to spark an idea for an alliterative narrative using the letter "S" and focusing on word choice and playing with words. An online page and a word choice checklist are provided for students to type...
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Write a Short Story
Compare and contrast two works of art that show groups of people in two different settings. Then choose one of the paintings to write a short story.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco by Janice Repka
This instructional activity will lead students in relating literature to their own lives. The book, The Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco, will be read aloud to students. Afterward, students will create short stories about things which they'd...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Legendary Lighthouses
For this technology-based interdisciplinary lesson, students will discover many facts about lighthouses by navigating the Internet. Students have the opportunity to use the facts they learn to create their own stories about lighthouses.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Planning Story Characters Using Interactive Trading Cards
Students use trading cards to examine fictional characters in a story.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Metamorphosis Stories of Change
The goal of this activity is for students to learn how to tell a story in order to make a complex topic (such as global warming or ozone holes) easier for a reader to grasp. Students realize that the narrative impulse underlies even...
Utah Education Network
Uen: All About Me Story
This series of lessons engages students in autobiographical writing. Students will participate in pre-writing, drafting, and publishing stories about their lives.
EL Education
El Education: Fanta
8th grade students in Fort Collins, Colorado each created a historical character file (HCF) as part of a Learning Expedition on slavery. Each HCF is a fictionalized account of an historically/geographically accurate character. Each file...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 3: Louisiana Purchase
Third graders learn about the Louisiana Purchase and the characteristics of pioneers during this time period. While exploring literary and informational texts, including quotes from primary source documents, 3rd graders discuss elements...
TES Global
Blendspace: Digital Storytelling
Links to eight different online storytelling websites available for free student use followed by an assessment.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Retelling Is Fun!
The purpose of this lesson is to get students involved with retelling activities, including writing a narrative and dramatic play.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Poetry for the Elementary Classroom
Site contains a narrative and three lesson plans. These plans are designed to assist learners with various aspects of poetry. This site discusses strategies which enable students to effectively, memorize, recite, and correctly pronounce...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.3.3d: Provide a Sense of Closure
Links to 6 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.3d: Provide a sense of closure.
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Education.com: W.3.3.d Worksheets: Provide a Sense of Closure
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 12 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.3.3.D: Provide a sense of closure.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Perspective Drawing Inspired by n.c. Wyeth [Pdf]
For this lesson, students will generate unique fantasy drawings that utilize perspective and create the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface. Deriving inspiration from the American painter and illustrator N.C. Wyeth's The...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What in the World Is Wrong With Sammy?
This lesson provides students with the technology-based project researching Guinea Pigs. The trade book, Sammy, the Classroom Guinea Pig, will be used to make predictions.The students will use the facts from their research to create a...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Can You Tell?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students to determine the difference between narrative and expository writing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Verb Tense
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart revises work on verbs and investigates verb tense: (past, present and future); compare sentences from narrative and information texts, e.g. narrative in past tense, explanations in...
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Children's Book Titles to Teach Traits [Pdf]
A list of children's book titles and authors that offer good examples for students to follow when learning to write both narrative and expository texts. Being arranged according to the six traits of good writing makes it easy to find the...
EL Education
El Education: The Wolf That Would Forgive
Middle school students write fables for intermediate school students based on a personal experience that taught them an important lesson about life. Students in both age groups learn from this exploration of social and emotional issues...
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