Writing Fix: Who/what/when/where: Desert Theme

In this lesson, Brooke Bessesen's picture book, Look Who Lives in the Desert!: Bouncing and Pouncing, Hiding and Gliding, Sleeping and Creeping, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the mentor text, students will use click the buttons with the words "Who", "What", "When", and "Where" until they find enough words to form a sentence that they like. Then students will write a story based on the new sentence and place it anywhere in the story. As the students write, students will alternate writing long and short sentences, and After publishing, students will read each others' stories and try to find the button-generated sentence. [Requires Adobe Reader.]