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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Haiku Riddles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will create 4 mystery haikus to publish for an audience.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: What if Poems: Developing Imaginative Stanzas for an Original Poem

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this instructional activity students will develop a "what if" poem using strong word choice and vocabulary.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Poems to Bug Your Reader: Develop a Poem About Invertebrates

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students create a short poem utilizing the best word choice regarding an invertebrate.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Special Place Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan students will develop a poem while thinking about a special place. They will develop their ideas using strong word choice and figurative language. After the students have completed their ideas, they will be linked...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Listen to the Word Choice of Authors: Crafting a Poem

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will analyze a poem's word choice and then create a poem of their own using word wall vocabulary.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Noun Inspired Animal Reports

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
In this lesson students will complete a report regarding an animal for science class. Vocabulary, nouns and verbs can be incorporated cross-curricularly.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Alliterative Insects

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students develop a story about an insect while utilizing previously written sentences with strong word choice.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Special Places to Love: Thoughtful Prepositional Phrases

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students learn to write meaningful prepositional phrases in order to evoke thoughtful word choice.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Inventing Stories for Your Favorite Clothes

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will write descriptors for a clothes catalogue.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Painting Places With Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this instructional activity students learn how to paint a setting with their descriptive choice of words.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Character Credo Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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

Writing Fix: The Backwards Writing Assignment

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will create a backwards poem based on descriptive settings and characters.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Turning Point Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this instructional activity students will analyze Ellen Hopkins' Crank for word choice, voice and idea development.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: By Far the Best Book Ever [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
In Chris Van Allsburgh's The Z Was Zapped students will see the value of precise word choice by incorporating alliteration. Turn the material into a mini lesson without the book. [PDF]
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Appropriate Words or Expressions in Context Power Point

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn about using context clues to find the most appropriate word choice in a specific context. Practice identifying correct word choices in questions that could be found on standardized tests.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Lexical Density

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation of lexical density and examples of sentences that are and are not lexically dense.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Season Mandala

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, Have You Seen Trees?, a book written by Joanne Oppenheim, and The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree, a book written by Gail Gibbons, are used as mentor texts. As a post-reading activity, students will record facts about the...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter A

For Teachers 1st - 8th 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 "A" in them. Students will continue to generate letter "A"...
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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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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter J

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, 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...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Vivid Verbs W.5.3.d

For Teachers 5th Standards
This lesson engages students in analyzing word choices. Students will write descriptive paragraphs about interesting magazine pictures and ensure that they are using vivid words in their writings.
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Other

Homework Online: Lord of the Flies, Chapter Summaries

For Students 9th - 10th
Read chapter summaries of William Golding's novel, "Lord of the Flies." These summaries each include information about the chapter's plot and comments on the meaning behind Golding's writing.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Appropriate Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students can learn how to use language appropriately through these notes on pretentious language, nine presentation slides on using jargon, eleven presentation slides on cliches in writing, and a video also about cliches. [2:00]

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