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Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Same Theme/different Story Stories
After enjoying the story of Fox by Margaret Wild, students will work in small groups to generate possible themes that the book is trying to teach its readers. Themes will be shared whole-group, and a class list of the best themes will be...
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Writing Fix: A Chapter Book Writing Lesson: Rules and Things for a Funner Life
Each writer will brainstorm experiences where he/she has learned some sort of lesson 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 by Christopher...
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Writing Fix: A Chapter Book Writing Lesson: Beyond Once Upon a Time
Learners 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: Teaching Students to Compose a Power Paragraph [Pdf]
This PDF lesson, POWER PARAGRAPH, focuses on analysis and will also help students to understand structure in a paragraph. The "power" concept teaches the students to organize their sentences according to different levels of importance....
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Writing Fix: Teaching Students to Compose a Power Essay [Pdf]
The Power Essay, like the power paragraph, focuses on helping students understand the structure of a piece of expository writing. The "power" concept teaches students to organize their ideas according to levels of specificity and to...
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Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Relative Report Narratives
After sharing Margie Palatini's charming "bad-situation-that-only-gets-worse tale", Tub-boo-boo, writers will plan a story about a humorous household accident that gets worse before it gets better. Borrowing Palatini's exciting idea from...
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Writing Fix: Inventing Stories for Your Favorite Clothes
In this lesson plan students will write descriptors for a clothes catalogue.
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Writing Fix: Painting Places With Words
In this lesson students learn how to paint a setting with their descriptive choice of words.
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Writing Fix: Three Voice Important Book Passages
A lesson plan made for young scholars to write from various perspectives regarding the same topic. The mentor text entitled The Important Book is used, as students become more familiar with voice, point of view, persuasive techniques and...
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Writing Fix: Character Credo Poems
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: What's Your Fifth Element?
In this lesson students will write persuasively in regards to a 21st century object.
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Writing Fix: How Big Was Hagrid?
In this lesson learners will decide mathematically how large Hagrid, from the Harry Potter series, is through their reading of persuasive techniques.
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Writing Fix: A Most Nutritious Election
In this lesson young scholars will write a persuasive speech for the Fruit or Vegetable of the Year Award. Nutrition information should be incorporated into this cross-curricular lesson.
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Writing Fix: Emotions and Colorful Days
In this lesson students will learn to write descriptively.
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Writing Fix: So Much Depends Upon
In this lesson young scholars will write a descriptive short story based upon 16-word imagery poems they have previously written.
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Writing Fix: Poems of Apology
For this lesson, young scholars 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
In this lesson plan young scholars will write a poem about someone they love after they have brainstormed an original idea.
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Writing Fix: Start and Stop Poetry
In this instructional activity students will analyze the cyclical patterns within poetry.
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Writing Fix: Start and Stop Poetry
Students write structured poems where the first and last lines are the same after looking at similar structures in books like Ralph Fletcher's Twilight Comes Twice and Laura Numeroff's If You give a Pig a Pancake. Teacher instructions,...
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Writing Fix: Paulsen Inspired Nature Poems
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
In this lesson students will create a backwards poem based on descriptive settings and characters.
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Writing Fix: Just Because Poems
To be taught in concordance with The Lord of the Flies, this lesson teaches young scholars how to give a voice to some of those not being heard on the island.
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Writing Fix: Turning Point Poems
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 this lesson the learners will use the conditional "if" in order to guide their reader to become someone or something.