Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Unique Imaginary Friends
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's Going on and Where Am I?
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...
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Writing Letters
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.
Harold D. Underdown
Derailed by Details
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.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: It's All About Organization
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...
Caro Clarke
Loving Your Characters Too Much
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.
Caro Clarke
Caro Clarke: What Is Conflict?
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
Writing Fix
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.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Plant Inspector
Students will provide a verbal and visual description of plants that are close their homes. The pictures can be published online.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Tail Acrostic Poems
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...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Make a Robot
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: We're in a Pickle
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.
Writing Fix
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]
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Found Poems/parallel Poems
Young scholars compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Writing to Determine, "What Is a Pulgar?"
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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter A
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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter B
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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter J
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"...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter P
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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Sensory Details
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.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Favorite Place in Nature
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...
Caro Clarke
Explaining Too Much: Why More Is Less
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Using Vivid Adjectives
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: 'Nuts' About Peanuts!! (Writing)
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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