Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Onomatopoeia Adventures
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 activity. After the reading of the...
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Martha's Stem Stories Activity Plan
Welcome to Martha's STEM Stories! STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. You may already know that doing STEM means testing ideas, collecting data, making calculations, and drawing graphs and charts-but you...
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of Further Adventures of Crusoe
This site provides the complete etext for Daniel Defoe's story, The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Excerpt From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Chapter 12
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of Susy, a Story of the Plains
This site provides the complete etext for Bret Harte's story, Susy, A Story of the Plains.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Weird Animal Adventures: Tuesday
After reading the picture book Tuesday by David Weisner, students write stories about strange animals and their nighttime adventures. Teacher and student instructions are provided along with student samples, an interactive idea...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Cross Age Tutoring Activities With Lewis and Clark
Interaction and adventure draws high school and elementary school students together as they analyze stories about the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Adventurous Magic
This writing activity is inspired by Bruce Coville's Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, and students will be asked to write about an original magical object that they have discovered in the "Elives' Magic Supplies," just as Jeremy does in...
Aaron Shepherd
Aaron Shepherd: The Legend of Lightning Larry
At this site listen to a tale retold and read by author Aaron Shepherd. Information provided for Reader's Theater as well as extras provided by the author such as writing ideas and posters.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: An Ocean Adventure
Students will listen to a story and then, using the writing process, write their own story using word processing software. They will then create an ocean picture to illustrate their stories.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Power First Paragraphs
After reading an engaging paragraph from Brave Margaret: An Irish Adventure by Robert D. San Souci and then work on writing good opening paragraphs for their own stories. Teacher and student instructions are provided along with student...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Digestive System Adventure
During this lesson students adventure through the digestive system via the Internet. They then use their knowledge of the digestive system to create an original story about their favorite food's adventure down the digestive track.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Five Transition Adventure Planner
In this lesson, students will use transition words and phrases to shift from one idea to another within a story.
Curated OER
Writing fix.com: Short Adventure Stories: The Abominable Snowman
Front cover of the book The Abominable Snowman (Choose Your Own Adventure #1) by R. A. Montgomery.
Virginia Tech
The Alan Review: An Interview With Will Hobbs
This interview with author Will Hobbs was conducted in 1994. Although not recent, it gives interesting and thoughtful views on the art of writing fiction. If you're thinking of being a writer, or just wonder how a writer works, this is...
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of Crusade of the Excelsior
This site provides the complete etext for Bret Harte's story, The Crusade of the Excelsior.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of a Millionaire of Rough
This site provides the complete etext for Bret Harte's story, A Millionaire of Rough and Ready.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of a Waif of the Plains
This site provides the complete etext for Bret Harte's story, A Waif of the Plains.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of Dickory Cronke
This site provides the complete etext for Daniel Defoe's story, Dickory Cronke.
Other
The Neverending Tale
This is a fun site geared primarily for students 8-16. It allows students to read and add to stories already begun by others and to decide what path the story takes. Because there are some rules and procedures to follow, this site is...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing
Using Snowflake Bentley as a model, students create a working definition of multigenre text and then use that definition to create their own multigenre piece about winter or another theme.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Introducing the Venn Diagram in the Kindergarten Classroom
Contains plans for short lessons that introduce the use of Venn Diagrams to kindergarten students. Uses interactive Venn Diagram exercises to make the concept easy to understand. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of the Cruise of the Snark
This site provides the complete etext for Jack London's story, The Cruise of the Snark.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of the Heathen
This site provides the complete etext for Jack London's story, The Heathen.