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Writing Fix: Some Animals Don't Do That!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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. Young scholars generate a...
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Writing Fix: Who/what/when/where: Circus Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, Dr. Seuss' book, If I Ran the Zoo, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After reading the mentor text, learners will use click the buttons with the words "Who", "What", "When", and "Where" until...
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Pbs Learning Media: Collection: Sci Girls

For Students 9th - 10th
SciGirls has the bold goal of changing how millions of girls think about science, technology, engineering and math - or STEM. Each half-hour episode highlights the processes of science and engineering, following a different group of...
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Writing Fix: Voice Building Poetry Lesson: Comparison & Contrast Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students examine multiple mentor texts to help drive them toward the final persuasive writing assignment: comparison and contrast poems written from a parent and a child's perspective. A short story, two poems, and a...
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Writing Fix: I Pod Inspired Writing Lessons: I Say to You Today I Have a Dream!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Inspired by MLK's passionate "I Have a Dream Speech," the mentor text "Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.", by Doreen Rappaport, and U2's Pride (In the Name of Love)", students will write speeches that detail...
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Writing Fix: Revision Lesson: Re Shaping Narrative Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson, inspired by the novel Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes is a fabulous classroom mentor text that helps teach a very powerful revision strategy: rewriting an idea in a completely different genre. Grimes' book shares short...
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Writing Fix: Oh, Messy Cheetos!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, sentence fluency is the focus. The mentor text entitled Mrs. Wishy Washy is used to help learners explore how using repetition techniques can enhance the meaning of a story. After reading the text, students will write...
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Writing Fix: Rain Drop Shape Poem

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan uses the mentor text by Wendy Cheyette Lewison entitled Raindrop, Plop! This activity, which has a focus on word choice, engages students in brainstorming descriptive words and phrases about raindrops. At the end of the...
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Writingfix: Alliteration Potluck

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, Potluck by Anne Shelby, is used as a mentor text for word choice. The content focus of the lesson is to highlight alliteration. Each student will use alliteration in a sentence as the student include his/her name, a...
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Writing Fix: The Colorful Desert

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson plan, The Colorful Desert, written by Audrey Wood, is used as a mentor text for sentence fluency. The content focus of the lesson is about how sentences build through a "building on" book. Students will use sentence frames...
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Writing Fix: If You Give a Student an Animal

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, the book If You Give a Moose a Muffin, written by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text for word choice. The content focus of the lesson is to teach the young scholars to take ownership of scientific and...
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Writing Fix: Three Voice Important Book Passages

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
A lesson plan made for students to write from various perspectives regarding the same topic. The mentor text entitled The Important Book is used, as students become more familiar with voice, point of view, persuasive techniques and the...
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Writing Fix: Beyond the Basic Biography Report

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson students use the format and structure of a mentor text such as A. Lincoln and Me by Louise Borden to write an interesting biography about a historical figure with an emphasis on idea development, voice, and writing...
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Writing Fix: Unique Metaphor Collections

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, 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 collect in their...
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Writing Fix: Writing to Your Favorite Author

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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: Snowball Note Making and Summarizing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson, young scholars will engage in this post-reading strategy for a nonfiction or a fiction piece. Each student will take notes on a four-square square graphic organizer about something they already knew, something they found...
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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: Color Personification Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, a book written by Mary O'Neill and Red Sings, and From Treetops: a Year in Colors, a book by Joyce Sidman, are used as mentor texts. Learners will brainstorm to collect different adjectives,...
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Writing Fix: Exploring a More Specific Story

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, Ralph Fletcher's Marshfield Dreams is used as a mentor text. Students will write stories about an important friendship in their life. Then students will revise and attempt to make sure their writings have stayed on topic,...
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Writing Fix: Onomatopoeia Adventures

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, by Linda Williams, is used as a mentor text to highlight the trait of word choice. Onamatopoeia is the focus content for this lesson. After the reading of the text,...
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Writing Fix: We Saw Him at the Zoo

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, the mentor text utilized is Deborah Guarino's book, Is Your Mama a Llama?, with the focus of sentence fluency. Each student will think of an animal that that has the same initial sound as his/her name. Using the...
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Writing Fix: Serendipitous & Interesting Story Titles

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, The Paper Bag Princess, a book written by Robert Munsch, is used as a mentor text. Learners will reflect on how nouns can sometimes be used as interesting adjectives. Students will collect these ideas in their notebooks...
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Writing Fix: Three Serendipitous Nouns

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
For this lesson, the book entitled A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a Noun? (Words Are Categorical), written by Brian P. Cleary, is used as the mentor text. After learning the basic definition of noun, a person, place, thing, or...
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Writing Fix: Story Starting Participles

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Roni Schotter's picture book entitled The Boy Who Loved Words is used as the mentor text. This Language Arts Common Core Standards-aligned lesson pre-writing task engages students in writing a collection of ideas of story...

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