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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Personal Storytelling With Accordion Books [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students use the structure of an accordion book to identify parts of an essay: introduction, three supporting details, and conclusion. They then compose a personal story using events from the past school year and plan the...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 2.1: Narrative Essay

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to write a narrative essay by identifying the differences between descriptive and narrative essays, knowing the difference between autobiographical and...
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Other

Lexiconic Resources: 5 W's and How Chart

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This downloadable graphic organizer will assist students in taking notes about a news story. Students will use this resource to identify answers to the following five W's and H questions: What happened? Who was there? When did it happen?...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How to Write a Descriptive Essay

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
The students will learn to write a descriptive essay about a three-day space camp experience at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. Students will then produce a multimedia slideshow about the experience.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Better Living Through Science

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson involves research on scientists whose accomplishments have impacted areas of nutrition, sanitation, or health care. Students will research an area of their choice, record information on a graphic organizer, and use the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Power of the Presentation

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Students will research an endangered African animal using resources from the Alabama Virtual Library and other Internet sites, and then design and present a persuasive and informative digital slideshow presentation on the animal and how...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Descriptive Essay

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Students learn to use one-main-idea think-sheets when producing simple descriptive essays.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Picturing Parts of Speech

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
For this lesson students use digital cameras to take pictures which illustrate various parts of speech, then insert the pictures into a digital slideshow presentation and write sentences about the pictures.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Powerful Book Reports

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson allows learners to identify the critical components of a story while developing expertise in creating and presenting multimedia presentations.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Let's Eat: An Expository Slideshow Presentation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students will write a three-paragraph essay explaining the steps necessary to follow a recipe and then present and serve the recipe to their classmates.
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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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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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.
Activity
Writing Fix

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

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this game, young writers are asked to describe a place with memorable details. The main focus is to describe a setting -- time and place. If they need help with ideas, they can click the when and where buttons until they have...
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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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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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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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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Worshop: People to Write About

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
For this mini-workshop, students are provided step-by-step instructions for writing about important people in their lives that they have not yet written about. Click the instructions button when you are ready to begin.
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Persuasion Map [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this graphic organizer to help build a persuasive piece of writing.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Narrative Writing

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
An eighteen-part learning module with links to images and websites to use while learning to write a narrative text.
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Other

Prezi: Summarizing a Text

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Slideshow provides an explanation of summarizing and describes how to make a good one.
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Other

Prezi: Facts Are Sometimes Called Details

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
What are facts? Slideshow explains how to find facts while reading and that they are sometimes referred to as details.
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Other

Prezi: Recalling Facts and Details

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Slideshow investigates how to identify facts or details in a story.
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Other

Prezi: Main Idea and Supporting Details

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Learning how to determine what is the main idea and what are the details in a story helps you become a better reader.