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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: Weird Animal Adventures: Tuesday
After reading the picture book Tuesday by David Weisner, students write stories about strange animals and their nighttime adventures. Teacher and student instructions are provided along with student samples, an interactive idea...
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Writing Fix: Power First Paragraphs
After reading an engaging paragraph from Brave Margaret: An Irish Adventure by Robert D. San Souci and then work on writing good opening paragraphs for their own stories. Teacher and student instructions are provided along with student...
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Writing Fix: Overcoming a Personified Fear
Students read There's a Nightmare in My Closet by Mercer Mayer as they learn about writing transitions and examine the theme of overcoming their fears. Then they write original stories of their own about a fear and how they will overcome...
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Writing Fix: Who's to Blame Stories
Young scholars read the book Because a Little Bug Went Ka-CHOO! By Rosetta Stone (aka Dr. Seuss) to learn how a little thing can turn into a big story. Then students practice by writing stories of their own where a little cause has a big...
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Writing Fix: Fracturing Tales Through Titles
Students read The Wolf Who Cried Boy by Bob Hartman and then write their own fractured fairy tales using first-person point of view and dialogue. Teacher and student instructions are provided along with student writing samples, an...
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Writing Fix:"oh, That's Good!" "No, That's Bad!"
How can something that is good, be bad and something that is bad, be good? Inspired by the pattern and concept in Margery Cuyler's picture book That's Good! That's Bad!, students will brainstorm a sequence of related events as the story...
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Writing Fix: Going Beyond "And They All Lived Happily Ever After."
After listening to the first 12 pages of the book Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude by Kevin O'Malley, students will discuss story elements leading them to develop their own solution to the story's problem. Students will then generate...
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Writing Fix: The Vocabulary Fashion Show
Inspired by Debra Frasier's clever vocabulary fair from her book, Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster, individual students will imagine what a vocabulary fashion show would be like. Assuming the role of a fashion show announcer,...
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Writing Fix: Interjected Emotions!: Voicing a Story
By incorporating properly used conventions of grammar, students will begin writing a narrative based on an interjection and a name.
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Writing Fix: I Wanna: Writing a Persuasive Letter
In this activity, students will experiment with word choice as it relates to persuasion.
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Writing Fix: Giving Voice to Opposites
In this lesson, students will develop a narrative in opposing voices.
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Writing Fix: Just the Facts, Ma'am: Voice an Original Mystery
In this activity, students will create a narrative with dialogue based on a particular voice.
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Writing Fix: Just the Facts, Ma'am
Students read The Web Files by Margie Palatini and use the format to write three-scene detective stories of their own. Teacher instructions, student instructions, and student writing samples are provided, as well as an interactive...
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Writing Fix: Unusual Friendly Letters: Persuasive Writing Techniques
In this instructional activity, students will use active voice in regards to persuasion. Lesson incorporates the A R.A.F.T. strategy: role, audience, format, topic.
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Writing Fix: Learning to Punctuate Direct Addresses in a Voice Filled Story
In this lesson, students will create a persuasive narrative by correctly incorporating interjections and imperative commands.
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Writing Fix: Imitating a Newspaper's Voice With a Funny and Original Idea
In this creative instructional activity, students will create a voice for a tabloid feature within a fairy-tale world.
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Writing Fix: Voicing an Original Fairy Tale Character
In this lesson learners will create an original fairy tale based on one character's perspective.
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Writing Fix: Put 'Em on a Talk Show
In this lesson plan, students will write a script for a talk show, based on character traits from fairy tale stories. Scripts will be rehearsed, costumed, and performed in front of the class.
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Writing Fix: Don't Eat Me Monologues
In this lesson plan, students will create a 5-part (introduction, 3 ideas, conclusion) monologue incorporating persuasive techniques and strong word choice.
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Writing Fix: Creative Convincing
In this lesson, students will create a friendly letter taking on the persona and voice of a persuasive animal.
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Writing Fix: An Onomatopoetic Field Trip
In this lesson, students will develop a story incorporating onomatopoeia and strong word choice.
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Writing Fix: Serendipitous Character Descriptions
In this lesson, students create a unique character and develop a descriptive paragraph utilizing strong word choice.
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Writing Fix: Hoot & Howl Poems: Fall Poetry
In this instructional activity, students develop a spooky poem for autumn by utilizing strong word choice.