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Scriptwriting Skill Module: Dialogue Lesson Plan

Scriptwriting Skill Module: Dialogue

9th - 11th
CCSS: Adaptable
What is dialogue? What must it contain? Use this plan to discuss dialogue with your emerging writers. They write a dialogue in script form to dramatize a conversation. Dialogue examples are included. 
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Persuasive Writing -- Commercial Style Lesson Plan

Persuasive Writing -- Commercial Style

3rd - 8th
Students create persuasive TV commercials for common products. They develop a list of products, write the script for a commercial, and act-out and videotape the commercial to present to the class.
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The American Dream: Gatsby on the Stage Lesson Plan

The American Dream: Gatsby on the Stage

8th - 11th
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past..." Use this Great Gatsby novel study lesson plan to reinforce literary analysis in your class. Working in groups, young readers write a script for a chosen...
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Theater: Create a Script Lesson Plan

Theater: Create a Script

2nd - 6th
Figurative language is the focus in the book Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia. After reading Peggy Parish's book, class members dramatize idioms from the text, using dramatic strategies such as characterization, exaggeration, and improvisation....
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Writing a Screenplay Unit

Writing a Screenplay

6th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
It's time to make a movie! Kids follow 15 steps to take their movie ideas from concept to script, following clear examples. The resource includes creative ways to guide learners into developing a few words and concepts into fully...
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Opinion: Persuasive Essay Unit Introduction Unit

Opinion: Persuasive Essay Unit Introduction

4th
CCSS: Designed
Opinion, audience, purpose. Fourth graders are introduced to the three characteristics of persuasive writing in the third unit of a year-long writing program. The 98-page packet is complete with plans, model essays, graphic organizers,...
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Writing Scripts Presentation

Writing Scripts

2nd - 3rd
Create a classroom full of writers using this innovative technique. The presentation walks learners through the process of writing a script, including identifying the setting, characters, and major events in the story. After reviewing...
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Writing a Narrative Movie Script with the Use of a Viewfinder Lesson Plan

Writing a Narrative Movie Script with the Use of a Viewfinder

5th - 9th
And...action! Turn your middle schoolers into filmmakers with this writing and visual arts lesson. After reading Monster by Walter Dean Myers, they create a viewfinder using an empty toilet paper roll to make a storyboard for their...
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Writing Lesson: Descriptive Paragraph Lesson Plan

Writing Lesson: Descriptive Paragraph

4th
Explore the writing process by crafting descriptive paragraphs. Fourth graders discuss strategies for overcoming writing fears, play the game "I Spy" using descriptive words, observe the teacher writing a paragraph and going through the...
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Teaching Playwriting in Schools Unit

Teaching Playwriting in Schools

1st - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
The world is a stage, and so is your classroom! Hone the skills of the next generation of Tony® award winners with a set of exercises, reference pages, writing prompts, and excerpts from famous plays.
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin Lesson Plan

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

4th - 6th
CCSS: Adaptable
Six tasks make up a lesson plan designed to reinforce comprehension and language skills using the poem "The Pied Piper" by Robert Browing. Scholars discuss and define unknown words, identify adjectives and onomatopoeia, review complex...
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W.11-12.3 Narrative Writing: 11-12th Grade ELA Common Core
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W.11-12.3 Narrative Writing: 11-12th Grade ELA Common Core

11th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Whether based on real or imagined experiences, narratives engage both writers and readers. This collection provides resources that help your writers develop their narrative writing skills. Take a look at the attached notes for each resource to find the aligned Common Core Standards for 11th and 12th grade narrative writing.
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Giving to Get the Beat Lesson Plan

Giving to Get the Beat

5th - 8th
Explore script writing based on prose in a cross-curricular literacy lesson plan. After listening to the folktale The Drum, middle schoolers identify and describe specific story elements such as characters and events. They work in groups...
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Gotta Go Back in Time Lesson Plan

Gotta Go Back in Time

3rd - 6th
CCSS: Adaptable
What better way to conclude a reading of George Washington's Socks than by writing original historical fiction narratives. After choosing interesting events from the past, young writers perform research to gather key facts to include in...
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Scriptwriting: Characters Lesson Plan
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Scriptwriting: Characters

8th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
Protagonists, antagonists, stereotypes, and foils. Introduce your scriptwriters to major, minor, round, and flat characters, and how to create them. Rich in examples and activities, the packet includes the directions for an exercise...
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Narrative Writing: An Imagined Story Unit Introduction Unit

Narrative Writing: An Imagined Story Unit Introduction

4th
CCSS: Adaptable
Let's pretend! Ben Bova's short story "Moonwalk" is used as a mentor text in a unit that shows kids how to create their own imaginative narratives. A great resource that deserves a special place in your curriculum library.
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Decode and Write Words with More Than One Syllable Lesson Plan

Decode and Write Words with More Than One Syllable

K - 1st
Practice sounding out multi-syllable words with this scaffolded lesson. Learners decode words by segmenting them into phonemes and combining the sounds. Your lines are in bold here, but you can easily use this simply as an outline...
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Screen Play Lesson Plan

Screen Play

10th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
High schoolers examine the New York Times review of the film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and explore the elements of scriptwriting. They read the article about the film adaptation screenplay and examine a sample...
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Fairy Tale Variations Lesson Plan

Fairy Tale Variations

5th - 8th
Here are two great lessons that work together and are inspired by the Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods. Young writers and actors will retell the story of "The Frog Prince" through games, improvisational script writing, and song....
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Readers Theatre Scripts Activities & Project

Readers Theatre Scripts

K - 6th
CCSS: Adaptable
Engage and entertain young learners with this collection of readers theatre activities. With over 25 different scripts, a wide range of topics are covered from simple counting and rhyming exercises to adaptions of popular children's...
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Write Your Own Screen Play Lesson Plan

Write Your Own Screen Play

6th - 8th
Students critique the transition of "Holes" from a novel to screenplay and consider how the details in a book are brought to life in a movie. They then choose a scene in a book and transform it into an original script after brainstorming...
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Persuasive Writing Unit

Persuasive Writing

9th
CCSS: Designed
New ReviewShould students be paid for doing well in school? That is the question at the heart of an argumentative writing unit that walks writers through the steps of crafting a persuasive essay. The carefully scaffolded scripted plans provide...
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Newberry 90 Second Movie Lesson Plan

Newberry 90 Second Movie

5th
I love this project! We all read and summarize chapters with our students, but not like this. The class is broken into 4 groups, each group reads a different Newberry book and summarizes each chapter. They use their chapter summaries to...
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Writing an Original Fable Lesson Plan

Writing an Original Fable

5th - 8th
Students discover how to write fables. In this writing skill lesson, students review the literary elements of fables and take all of the steps in the writing process to create their own fables.
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