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Writing Fix: Details and Vocabulary: Using Content Based Vocabulary

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan, students will write a descriptive paragraph regarding an animal and its habitat, or a character in a particular setting. Great cross-curricular usage of vocabulary.
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Writing Fix: The Color of Love: Reflecting on Colors and the Images They Evoke

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this lesson students will create a poem based on the images evoked by certain colors.
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Writing Fix: Haiku Riddles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will create 4 mystery haikus to publish for an audience.
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Writing Fix: What if Poems: Developing Imaginative Stanzas for an Original Poem

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will develop a "what if" poem using strong word choice and vocabulary.
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Writing Fix: Poems to Bug Your Reader: Develop a Poem About Invertebrates

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students create a short poem utilizing the best word choice regarding an invertebrate.
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Writing Fix: Special Place Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will develop a poem while thinking about a special place. They will develop their ideas using strong word choice and figurative language. After the students have completed their ideas, they will be linked together...
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Writing Fix: Listen to the Word Choice of Authors: Crafting a Poem

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Young scholars will analyze a poem's word choice and then create a poem of their own using word wall vocabulary.
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Writing Fix: Noun Inspired Animal Reports

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
In this lesson students will complete a report regarding an animal for science class. Vocabulary, nouns and verbs can be incorporated cross-curricularly.
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Writing Fix: Alliterative Insects

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students develop a story about an insect while utilizing previously written sentences with strong word choice.
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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: Ain't Gonna Rain No More

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will re-create a campfire song with internal rhyme and rhythm.
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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: Ballads About Relatives

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will write 4-lined ballads about their relatives.
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Writing Fix: Personifying Convention

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity students will personify a grammatical convention.
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Writing Fix: Dialogue Adventures

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will learn how to write dialogue in a particular voice.
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Writing Fix: Serendipitous Character Names & Powerful Opening Paragraphs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Bertrand R. Brinley's The Mad Scientist's Club is used as a mentor text. Students will analyze the introductory paragraph of the mentor text and its sequel. Then students will use an interactive button to select a...
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Writing Fix: Sausage Story: A Riddle Inspired Tale

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A Writer's Workshop instructional activity in which students uncover the riddle of a Sausage Story, learn to identify the sausage sentence within the story, and finally write their own Sausage Stories along with hints for their readers...
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Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Sausage Story: A Riddle Inspired Tale

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson, students discover the riddle of sausage stories and learn to original write sausage sentences and then move up to sausage stories. Read and discover the riddle!
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Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Simple Formual Poem: The Cinquain

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Write about a topic of your choice using a CINQUAIN or click on the topic generator if you need help with a topic. A cinquain is a five-line poem that matches either the traditional format or the modern format. Cinquain templates are...
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Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Simple Formula Poems: Diamonte

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Diamantes are poems that form a diamond-shape, and they are often about two opposite ideas. Write to topics of your choosing using a DIAMANTE or if you need help with a topic, click on the topic generator for ideas. Really try to include...
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Writing Fix: Lesson to Prepare for State Writing Test: Trait Rubics Vocabulary

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson focuses on teaching the vocabulary used in the rubrics for 4 of the 6 Traits of Writing. It requires students to learn the vocabulary used in the rubrics and to define the traits so they understand what is expected of them...
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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, students 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 Literature Inspired Writing Lesson: A Time Traveler's Log

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will read chapter four of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, noting both the time traveler's descriptions of the new world of 800,000 ACE, and the conclusions the main character draws as a 19th century man. Students will think of a...