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I Can Sequence Important Events
After reading any short informational or fictional text, ask your class to analyze the important events. They note down three important events on a short timeline, describing the events with either words or drawings. After this, pupils...
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Ernest Hemingway
Introduce readers to Ernest Hemingway and his writing style with a learning exercise that includes a brief biography, a WebQuest, and his short story "Old Man At The Bridge." Discussion questions are attached to the story but the link to...
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If I Were An Animal
Students choose a favorite animal and identify its prominent characteristics. They draw their favorite animal adding their own heads to animal bodies. Then they write a creative, detailed short story about themselves as a nonsense creature.
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Outline and Shine
Seventh graders read and discuss a short story. They complete an outline of the story. They pair and share to evaluate each other's outlines.
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Learning About Hurricanes
Students write a research paper on hurricanes. In this weather instructional activity, students use a science text book to write down facts about hurricanes on note cards and then outline their essay. Students use the outline to create...
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Spring Birds
In this story writing worksheet, students write a story about the picture, which contains a mother bird and three babies in a next. The worksheet contains 10 lines for students to write on.
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KS3 Bitesize
Students complete exercises using their five senses to improve their writing skills. In this writing skills activity, students complete activities blindfolded and using their five senses. Students then select an abstract noun and...
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It's Raining Meatballs
Students observe and demonstrate the process of summarization using the book "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" by Judi Barrett. They silently read the story, and as a class discuss the five W's. Students then write a short summary of...
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Composition from a Visual Model
Students view image of famous artwork, collectively create story about what they see in image, discuss how color and texture could be used to paint picture with music, view second image, and write individual short stories about picture. ...
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Printing
In this printing worksheet, students write a short story, persuasive essay, journal entry, etc. The worksheet includes lines divided by dashed lines to help students form their writing.
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Create a Storybook in KidPix
Learners create a storybook by using KidPix software. In this technology instructional activity, students write creative short stories and publish them on KidPix. Learners illustrate the stories using Kid Pix tools.
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The Scarlet Letter
Students listen to group reports and then individually research one of the other reports. Upon the completion of this second research activity students write a short story in the style of Hawthorn's writing.
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My Spelling Words-- Spelling List #132
In this spelling learning exercise, students learn to spell 10 names of family relatives. Students write each word once, define the word "sibling" and write a short story about their family.
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Pronouns and Clauses
In this pronouns and clauses instructional activity, students complete a passage using 7 appropriate pronouns, write how many clauses there are in 4 sentences, underline the main clause in each one and write a short story with a...
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Flower Stationary
In this Flower Stationary worksheet, students write a short story or an essay. The stationary comes with a picture of a flower in the upper right corner.
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Coloring page - Gorilla
In this coloring learning exercise, students color a gorilla. The coloring sheet brings opportunities to discuss the characteristics of these animals. Students may use this coloring sheet as a flashcard to learn about animals. They may...
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Valentine's Day Word Search
In this Valentine's Day worksheet, students search for 30 hidden words about Valentine's Day, then choose 10 of the words and write a short story about the holiday.
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Valentine's Day Party Word Search
In this Valentine's Day party word search, students search for 25 hidden words, then choose 10 words and write a short story about a Valentine's Day party.
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What Happened to the Chesapeake Bay Filtering System?
In this environmental science lesson, students write a short story about what it's like to help at an oyster garden. They formulate 2 hypotheses on the disappearance of oysters in Chesapeake Bay.
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British Headmaster sends pupils home who fail to stand when he enters the classroom
Ninth graders examine an issue in a school in Britain. In this ELL lesson, 9th graders read an article and answer reading comprehension questions. Students write a short story using key words from the article.
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Controlled Narrative Writing
Learners examine a short story and add possible adjectives. They re-read the story and add adverbs. They also add other information to make the story interesting.
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The Fisherman and His Wife
Engage conversation and explore the journey as you challenge young readers to interpret the german folktale, "The Fisherman and His Wife" written by literary brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
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The Cutting Edge
Young writers examine the writings of Raymond Carver to investigate editing skills. They will develop original sentences. Then read the work of Raymond Carver to edit and analyze the ending. They revise and ending of their original...
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Writing in Different Viewpoints
Students read and analyze the point of view of a selected classic short story. They take notes while reading the story, select a character, and rewrite the story from a different viewpoint.
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