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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Animal Environment and Adaptation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will enjoy different activities focusing on how animals adapt to their environments. They will begin by researching two animals, their environment, and the ways the animals adapt to this environment. In small...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Adjectives Around Us

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will make a photo story book using Flickr pictures.
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Lesson Plan
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Lesson Plans on Writing Short Stories

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on teacher preparation of lesson plans before attempting to teach students to write short stories. It includes questions to ask yourself, ideas for activities, and a sample lesson plan.
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Graphic
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: 6 Trait Post It Notes for Revision and Editing [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This is a printable PDF template page for 6 Trait Post-it Notes for Revision and Editing for descriptive and narrative writing.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Descriptive Papers

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces descriptive papers.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Descriptive Papers: Key Elements: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over words, phrases, and key elements that are included in descriptive papers. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Descriptive Papers: Key Elements."
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Cosmic Oranges

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for four 45-minute lessons that ask students to use their senses and focus their attention while writing descriptively and observing scientifically. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
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Article
Caro Clarke

Caro Clarke: Writing Advice: Beginner's Four Faults

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is a personal site from Caro Clarke. The third installment in this series looks at the four major mistakes made by beginning authors. The main idea of this article is that the author needs to be able to combine dialogue with...
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: Sl.1.5 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the common core standard of adding drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Write Now! A Big Pot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short video displays several people stirring a large pot of stew, and the prompt at the end asks students to describe how they would make the same dish. This is one in a series of creative writing prompts. [0:38] W.9-11.12 Write Routinely
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Nonfiction Writing Lessons

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This series of nonfiction writing lessons was developed by Stuart Miller. Four activities include: Describing the Real World, The Interview, Writing a Profile, and Writing a Review.
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Interactive
Other

Switch Zoo: Make New Animals

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Students choose from many different animals to combine a head, body, and tail in order to create a new animal of their own. Facts and information on each animal type are provided, and once the animal is complete, students can add a title...
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EL Education

El Education: Architectural Features Cards

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Fifth grade students at Genesee Community Charter School created these cards during an expedition called Liberty and Justice for All ? To create the cards, students researched and sketched Federal, Georgian, Colonial, Greek and other...
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EL Education

El Education: Book Trading Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This collection of trading cards was created by 5th and 6th graders at Shutesbury Elementary School in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, as part of a choice-based fictional reading project. Each student selected a fiction book that he or she...
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EL Education

El Education: The Ware Wanderers Guide to the Outdoors

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson students explore local outdoor adventure sites and then use written descriptions and photographs to present information in a guide community members can use to learn more about rivers, trails, and other natural areas.
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Lesson Plan
Teachnology

Teachnology: Lesson: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, young scholars use the book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day as a springboard for writing their own very-bad-day story.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Word Choice: Lesson 2

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A slideshow introducing the topic of word choice and discussing its importance.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Show Don't Tell

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
This lesson provides students with examples of Show, Don't Tell and connected emotions including an emotions and feelings chart. It gives them an opportunity to practice the concept as well.
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Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: The Grapes of Wrath

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A Library of Congress lesson on "The Grapes of Wrath," through which students discover how cultural artifacts from the book support its themes and see connections "between the social, cultural, and literary contexts of literature."
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Website
Other

Internet4 Classrooms: ccss.ela literacy.sl.k.4 Describe Familiar People, Places

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Choose from several activities to teach the Common Core Standard of describing familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, providing additional detail. Includes ideas for conversation starters for...
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: Sl.1.4 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the common core standard of describing people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.

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