Writing Fix: Three Serendipitous Nouns

In 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 idea, young scholars will begin collecting nouns on a page in their writer's notebooks that are personally interesting. Then students will choose their best person noun, place noun, and thing noun and write a descriptive paragraph that uses and describes all three. This paragraph will be used as a story starter for a later time. [Requires Adobe Reader.]