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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Unique Imaginary Friends

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
The writer will first create an original imaginary friend, inspired by Ted from Tony DiTerlizzi's wonderful picture book. The writer will then think of an ordinary activity done on a daily basis, like feeding the family dog. The writer...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What's Going on and Where Am I?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson, learners write a descriptive essay about an historical event as seen through the eyes of an alien from a different planet and time. The lesson encourages the use of colorful and exciting adjectives, adverbs, and verbs in...
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Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Writing Letters

For Teachers 3rd Standards
The students will learn how to form a proper letter. They will be able to remove key ideas/details from a text and apply it to their writing. They will also be able to incorporate transition and descriptive words into their writing.
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Article
Harold D. Underdown

Derailed by Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A helpful site for writers which gives the proper perspective in assessing the detail involved in your writing. Provides examples of how to include exciting, relevant details when writing fiction.
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Lesson Plan
Teachnology

Teachnology: Lesson Plan: It's All About Organization

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, third through fifth graders learn to organize their writing to form a cohesive paragraph. They began by making an art project such as a drawing; then they write sentences describing their art, and write an organized...
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Article
Caro Clarke

Loving Your Characters Too Much

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This article is the fifth in a series that is designed to help new authors with their new novels. This lesson focuses on your main character and what happens when that character lacks character flaws.
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Article
Caro Clarke

Caro Clarke: What Is Conflict?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the sixth in a series of articles designed to help the new writer with their novel. This article focuses on conflict and how it effects the characters and the plot of the story. W.11-12.3a Narratives
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: So Much Depends Upon

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Plant Inspector

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will provide a verbal and visual description of plants that are close their homes. The pictures can be published online.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Tail Acrostic Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, Spring: An Alphabet Acrostic by Steven Schnur Mentor, Silver Seeds by Paul Paolilli, and Henry & The Kite Dragon by Bruce Edward Hall are used as mentor texts. Students will practice their acrostic skills on the tail...
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Make a Robot

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Kids will enjoy engaging in this interactive to build a virtual robot. Extend the activity by printing out the creation and incorporating language arts as students write a descriptive story about their new robotic friend or an expository...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: We're in a Pickle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A hands-on instructional activity in which children work together to discover adjectives, write a descriptive paragraph, and apply math principles to produce a bar graph interpreting results from the instructional activity.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Action Words Bring Life to Setting Details [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn how to develop their ideas through description and action words through a story scavenger hunt. [PDF]
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Found Poems/parallel Poems

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Young scholars compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Writing to Determine, "What Is a Pulgar?"

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This lesson plan is a writing follow-up to the guided reading lesson plan, "What is a Pulgar?" It utilizes a Makes Sense Strategies Think-sheet to guide the writing.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter A

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
In this instructional activity, students will play with words as they use alliteration. Students will press buttons to generate adjectives, verbs, names, and nouns that begin with the letter "A" in them. Students will continue to...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter B

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will play with words as they use alliteration. Students will press buttons to generate adjectives, verbs, and nouns that begin with the letter "B" in them. Students will continue to generate letter "B" words...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter J

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will play with words as they use alliteration. Students will press buttons to generate adjectives, verbs, names, and nouns that begin with the letter "J" in them. Students will continue to generate letter "J"...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter P

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will play with words as they use alliteration. Students will press buttons to generate adjectives, verbs, and nouns that begin with the letter "P" in them. Students will continue to generate letter "P" words...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sensory Details

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will learn how to enhance their narrative writing by incorporating sensory details to convey experiences and events. A power point presentation on sensory details is included.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Favorite Place in Nature

For Students Pre-K - K
As an extension to the "Favorite Place in Nature" episode of PBS Kids' Plum Landing, students will draw a picture to communicate a message about their favorite outdoor place. Students will draw on the site's blank canvas and then publish...
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Article
Caro Clarke

Explaining Too Much: Why More Is Less

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the eleventh article in a series that is designed to help the new novel author. This article focuses on how to eliminate needless information in your novel. The key is to not explain too much about the action.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Using Vivid Adjectives

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This upper elementary lesson focuses on the use of vivid adjectives to enhance student writing. Students will explore vivid adjectives in a variety of activities including thesaurus use and story development software.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: 'Nuts' About Peanuts!! (Writing)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson will be implemented as part of a unit about plants. The students will describe the characteristics of a peanut and peanut butter (using their five senses) and record their observations/descriptions on a graphic organizer....

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