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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Start and Stop Game: Clauses

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find a subordinate clause that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good clause can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of every...
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Unlikely Lost and Found

For Students 3rd - 8th
What interesting and unusual items might you write a Lost & Found Ad for? Devote a page in your journal or writer's notebook to write several unusual Lost & Found Ads this year. Use the lost and found writing prompt generator to...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: Rather Unlikely Dictionary Entries

For Teachers 4th - 8th
After studying dictionary entries including structure and writing style, create unlikely dictionary entries for things in your life. If you really can't think of any, press the button on the generator to get a few ideas. Do your best to...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: Rather Unlikely Employment Resumes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
After studying the structure and writing style of resumes, create an unlikely resume for a specific thing in your life. What in your life might need to apply for another job some day, maybe when you are done with it? Your car? Your bed?...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Workshop: Ouch! That Hurt

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
For this mini-workshop, click the step-by-step instruction button and try to remember the details of a time when you got hurt. Follow the instructions exactly by clicking the instruction button one step at a time.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Workshop: To Be Perfectly Honest

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Think about a time you lied. You are going to write a description about a time when you were less than truthful. When you are ready to begin writing, get some scratch paper and a pencil, then click the button and follow the directions on...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix:left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Workshop:favorite Person & Song

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Do you have a favorite person--a friend or a family member? Do you have a favorite song? Think about putting your favorite person and your favorite song together in a fictional scene. Make an interesting piece of writing by using really...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Workshop: Magical Creatures

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
HELP! Many magical creatures are still not in our Magical Creature Field Guide! We don't know who they are, where they live, what they eat, what their magical abilities are or even what they look like! It is your job to help create these...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Workshop: Building a Setting

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This mini-workshop provides step-by step instructions to help students build a great setting for their stories. Press the instructions button when ready to begin.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Worshop: People to Write About

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this mini-workshop, students are provided step-by-step instructions for writing about important people in their lives that they have not yet written about. Click the instructions button when you are ready to begin.
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Extreme Alliteration: Tongue Twisters

For Students 9th - 10th
Choose from the tongue twister starter generator and use these words at the beginning, middle, or end of a BIGGER tongue twister you create. Don't make just a line of alliteration; make a line of alliteration that's really challenging to...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Same Theme/different Story Stories

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
After enjoying the picture book Six-Dinner Sid by Inga Moore, learners will work in small groups to generate possible themes that the book is trying to teach its readers. Themes will be shared in whole-group, and a class list of the best...
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Little Red Riding Hook: Alternatives to Introductions & Hooks [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a PDF offering eight alternatives for how to write engaging introductions to common fairy tales.
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Graphic
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Hamburger Paragraph Template for Students [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This is a PDF hambuger template (graphic organizer) to help students organize and write stronger paragraphs.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A 6 Trait Writing Lesson: Emotional Recipe Write Ups

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
The writer studies the format of well-written recipes, paying particular attention to the type of verbs used in the paragraph of instructions which always follow the list of needed ingredients. Next, the writer thinks up a story or...
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Handout
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing Fix's List of Prepositions [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
This is a PDF providing a handout with an extensive list of prepositions.
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Handout
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Subordinating Conjunction Rules [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This PDF provides a writer's handout which covers the rules for using subordinating conjunctions. There are three complex sentence patterns to learn with subordinating conjunctions. Two patterns require you to make use of commas; one...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Participial Phrases [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This PDF can be used as an overhead or handout. It shows how sentences can be strengthened when two or more sentences are combined with the use of participial phrases.
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Grocery List Spelling [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
This PDF activity page offers a unique way to study spelling words. Students do one activity (such as make a crossword with their spelling list and definitions) from three of the four grocery store departments: meat, produce, bakery, and...
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Tic Tac Toe Spelling [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
For this PDF spelling activity, choose three activities "in a row" to complete for your weekly spelling assignments. These activities include creating a comic strip using at least seven of your spelling words, write your spelling words...
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Graphic
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Constructed Response Organizer [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This PDF is a graphic organizer designed two help students respond to a writing prompt.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revising Leads [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Revision can be a difficult step to teach in the classroom. Use this tool to help students better understand how to revise their leading sentences. [PDF]
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revision of Word Choice [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
Helping students revise their rough drafts can be a difficult process. Make it a little easier with this 3-step lesson regarding revision of word choice.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Wacky Frame of History

For Teachers 1st - 9th
Inspired by Barry Lane's book 51 Wacky We-Search Reports, in this cross-curricular instructional activity students learn to present researched material in a collage format.