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Lesson Plan

Writing Fix: Inventing a New Word

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Inspired by the main character's actions in Frindle by Andrew Clements, students will be asked to reinvent an everyday object with a brand new word. They will need to imagine a character has reinvented their word, and then they will create a scene from a story where the character reveals the new word to a friend. The assignment requires them to correctly (and interestingly) use dialogue and dialogue punctuation in their scenes.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Concepts
punctuating dialogue, punctuation, word choice, writing dialogue
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Additional Tags
dialogue, use narrative techniques, "frindle" by andrew clements, ccss.ela, inventing a new word, northern nevada writing project, w.5.3.b, writingfix, writingfix: inventing a new word, writingfix: inventing a new word w.5.3.b, word choice / diction
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Classroom Considerations
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