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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Sounds: What We Hear!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners will create a descriptive writing about the sounds they hear in a favorite place. This is a good follow-up to a science unit on sound.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: A World of Stories: The Hiroshima Children's Peace Memorial

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Megan Hicks incorporates origami with storytelling to tell the true story behind the Children's Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: A World of Stories: The Monkey's Heart

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Donna Washington tells the story of a clever monkey who outwits a crocodile.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: A World of Stories: The Tailor

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
Megan Hicks uses origami and storytelling to celebrate the ingenuity of a grandmother who reuses a piece of fabric in a number of beautiful ways.
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Memory Game for Kids

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Young writers brainstorm three sensory details about a personal memory before writing about it. If they need help with a memory, they can click the magic button to help spark their memory. Their writing should include sensory details.
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Color Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Click the buttons to get a unique starter for a descriptive piece of writing. You can make up a story, a poem, anything you like.
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Idea Game for Kids

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
How can using your five senses help you tell a better story? Young writers brainstorm three sensory details about a personal topic before writing a story about it. If they need help with ideas, they can click the magic button for story...
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Workshop: To Be Perfectly Honest

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Think about a time you lied. You are going to write a description about a time when you were less than truthful. When you are ready to begin writing, get some scratch paper and a pencil, then click the button and follow the directions on...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A 6 Trait Writing Lesson: Emotional Recipe Write Ups

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
The writer studies the format of well-written recipes, paying particular attention to the type of verbs used in the paragraph of instructions which always follow the list of needed ingredients. Next, the writer thinks up a story or...
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eBook
FableVision

Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: The North Star: Writing Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Be inspired to write your own simple story or poem by choosing a picture from this collection of child-centered illustrations.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Sensory Details

For Students K - 1st Standards
A five-part learning module with links to images and videos about sensory details and using sensory language.
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PPT
Other

Prezi: Beginning, Middle, and End

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Based on the story, Harry the Dirty Dog, this slideshow introduces the different elements of the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Retelling the Story

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps to teach students how to retell main events from a story and sequence events.
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Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Word by Word a Story Game

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
For grades 1 to 3, this game has students write a story by focusing on the word choice.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Paragraphs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will begin to organize stories into paragraphs, and use paragraphs in presentation of dialogue in stories. Reviews what a paragraph is and uses Humpty Dumpty as an example.
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Handout
Other

Cyberwriter: Narrative Writing

For Students K - 1st Standards
Cyberwriter gives narrative writing activities leveled for K-3rd grades and 4th-8th grades. A brief explanation about narrative writing is also on this page. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.3
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Writing a Story

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores the steps for writing a story such as coming up with a title, a main idea and supporting details that keep the reader interested.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Building Creative Writing

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This simple activity will enhance the descriptive writing of primary aged children. By building upon each page of the flipchart over a period of several days, it makes the students more aware of nouns,...
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: w.k.3 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the skill of writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a...
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Super Summary [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which pupils read a text and then complete a graphic organizer to help them write a summary. Materials are included.
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: Sl.1.4 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the common core standard of describing people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.
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Professional Doc
Other

Nsw Dept. Of Ed.: Retelling [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
PDF page from the New South Wales, Australia, Department of Education and Training that contains suggestions for helping students retell things they have read or seen. It includes some suggestions for how to achieve this as well as a...
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Website
Education.com

Education.com: Sl.2.4 Worksheets, Workbooks, Lesson Plans, and Games

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] These worksheets and lesson plans can help students practice the Common Core State Standards skill of telling a story or recounting an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive...
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Interactive
ABCya

Abc Ya: Story Maker

For Students K - 1st Standards
Create your own story using the tools on this site. You can add a title page, type your story, and illustrate it using the paint tools. The story can then be saved and printed.