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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.
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Writing Fix: Death Personified
In this lesson, students will personify an object within a poem. They will focus on voice and word choice in order to fully convey their message.
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Writing Fix: Different Ways of Looking
In this lesson students will use the sentence structure from Wallace Stevens' "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
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Writing Fix: Action Words Bring Life to Setting Details [Pdf]
Students learn how to develop their ideas through description and action words through a story scavenger hunt. [PDF]
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Writing Fix: The Preamble: More Than an Introduction
Strategies to help students learn the preamble of the Constitution. Includes a found poem lesson.
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Writing Fix: You Decide: Roanoke the Lost Colony
Inspired by Roanoke The Lost Colony, An Unsolved Mystery From History, students will learn and discuss this mysterious part of American history. Doing their own detective work they will make predictions and come to a conclusion regarding...
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Writing Fix: The Perilous Journey: My Experience
Inspired by The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party students will create journal entries based on the treacherous journey of the Donner Party.
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Writing Fix: Riding a Train of States
Help students memorize the states and their capitals with this interactive train-car lesson.
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Writing Fix: George, George and the American Revolution
In this lesson plan students will analyze text in order to decipher characteristics of King George III and George Washington.
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Writing Fix: Selling Our Nation's Symbols on Ebay!
Young scholars will write for a specific purpose in this cross-curricular lesson regarding our nation's landmarks and symbols.
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Writing Fix: A Literature Inspired Writing Lesson: I Never Knew That!
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem discover that their seemingly "feeble" father has an astonishing ability with a rifle. For this assignment, writers will compose a letter to a parent or loved one, asking for a return letter that...
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Writing Fix: Unique Metaphor Collections
In this instructional activity, the first chapter of the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring is used as a mentor text. Students will identify metaphors and then create their own unique metaphorical descriptions that they will begin to...
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Writing Fix: Writing to Your Favorite Author
In this lesson, the book Dear Mr. Henshaw, written by Beverly Cleary, is used as a mentor text. Each student will generate a list of questions for his/her favorite author. Then each student will write a letter to the favorite author and...
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Writing Fix: The Five Transition Adventure Planner
In this lesson, students will use transition words and phrases to shift from one idea to another within a story.
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Writing Fix: Squiggles
After reading "The Squiggle" by Carole Lexa Schafer, young scholars use their own creative vision and talent to turn a squiggle into a masterpiece. They use crayons to color background and details, anything that helps make their squiggle...
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Writing Fix: Some Animals Don't Do That!
In this lesson plan, Dogs Don't Wear Sneakers by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text for to highlight the trait of idea development. The content focus of the lesson is to highlight what topics cannot do. Students generate a list of...
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Writing Fix: The Post It Writing Process
Based on Northern Nevada's 6-traits of writing, teachers can use a post-it note as a template for learners to check their work throughout the writing process. Links to the 6-traits are included.
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Writing Fix: Revision Checklists [Pdf]
Walk your students through the writing process with this revision checklist. Students review their idea development, organization, sentence fluency and word choice. Click on appropriate grade-levels to get the desired checklists....
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Writing Fix: Peer Revision [Pdf]
Students can help their peers with these revision sheets focused on idea development, word choice, voice and grammatical conventions.
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Writing Fix: The American Revolution: Heroes
For this lesson students will understand the significance of those who served during the American Revolution.
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Writing Fix: Little Toy Friend Poems
In this lesson students will create a poem from the viewpoint of a lost toy.
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Writing Fix: My Big Break!
The focus trait for this writing lesson is idea development; students will consider the idea of becoming famous and making the cover of an infamous magazine, People. Moving from the mundane to inspirational, attention to detail and...
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Writing Fix: Right Brained Lesson: Serendipitous Love Metaphors
Based on its title, student writers predict what Benatar's song means when it says that "Love Is a Battlefield." After discussing Benatar's extended metaphor as a class, students will create an original extended metaphor about love in...
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Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Same Theme/different Story Stories
After enjoying the picture book Six-Dinner Sid by Inga Moore, students 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...