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Understanding the Price Paid: America's Conflicts
Twelfth graders interview war veterans about their combat experiences and write newspaper stories about their interviews. They share their interviews with classmates. they discuss the impact of war on the veteran and the United States.
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Assistive Technology in the Writing Process
High schoolers organize, write, and edit essays. They utilize graphic organizer software, and write and edit the essay using word prediction and spell checking software.
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All About Me - A Poem
Second graders brainstorm unique qualities they possess in a All About Me worksheet. They write free verse poems about things that most people don't know about them. They brainstorm descriptive words to enhance their poems and rewrite them.
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Bounce And Sing Introduction
Students sing and participate in doing a melodic and rhythmic activity to be introduced to their teacher and each other.
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Final Reports
Students write reports, including a summary of their research findings and their historical journal entries, to be shared with friends and families, and publish their reports.
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Organizing Your Ideas Into an Effective Outline
Young scholars explain the components of a speech outline and write an interesting speech.
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Short Story Framework
The class gets creative after listening to a short story containing a definitive structure. They are required to think about character, relationship, and setting, while attempting to show rather than tell, in their writing. Dialogue,...
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Writing a Short Story
Learners do further research on a time period they have studied. For this history research lesson, students choose a time period to write about. Learners gather information about the weather, environment, food and activities that were...
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Intrigued with Yo-Yos!
Fifth graders review the writing process and complete a research activity. In this writing process instructional activity, 5th graders research yo-yos online and write a research paper about the topic.
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Transforming Fairy Tales: Editing
Students edit fairy tales. Â In this transforming fairy tales instructional activity, students edit their previously written fairy tales for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors. Â Students also have the opportunity to peer edit.Â
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Christmas Poetry
Middle schoolers explore writing using literary terms. In this Christmas poetry activity, students write a poem about a Christmas tree or a snowman using at least one example of each: metaphor, simile, and personification. Â
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Apples Personified
Students write a creative writing piece by personifying apples. In this creative writing lesson, students view a PowerPoint about the writing process and brainstorm about apples. Students write a rough draft about their apple and peer...
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How to 'Write Right'!
Students practice their reading, writing, and listening skills by completing the sentence writing journal activity. In this reading and writing sentences lesson, students read sentences from the board, identify vocabulary within the...
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Mile in My Moccasins
Students recognize the value of giving to the community by looking at examples of sacrifices and traditions of Native Americans. In this Native American lesson, students given examples of philanthropic deeds of Native American people....
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Powerful Words Can Warm the Heart: Art from the Heart
Students explore how artists contribute to the public good. In this art and community lesson, students identify a community's needs and wants, identify how characters in a story meet their needs and wants, and identify ways that arts...
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Spooky Story
Second graders write a Halloween story. In this combined technology and writing lesson, 2nd graders create a Halloween picture using KidPix, insert it into Microsoft Word, and then write a story to correspond with the picture.
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The Process of Writing a Paragraph
Third graders generate a written paragraph by following the 5-step writing process. In this paragraph writing instructional activity, 3rd graders practice brainstorming, prewriting, revising, creating final drafts, and publishing an...
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School-Home Links: Brainstorming
In this brainstorming worksheet, students brainstorm ideas about weather and then write a story about the weather. Parents or guardians must sign the worksheet.
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School-Home Links: Planning Writing
In this writing process worksheet, students plan a piece of writing about their favorite toy by making a list of words that describe the toy. Students then use the list to write a story. Parents or guardians must sign the worksheet.
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Writer's Checklist
In this writing worksheet, students read 11 criteria for an acceptable paper. Students evaluate themselves, checking yes or no for each. Students can use this list when editing their work.
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U.S. Generals...Support the Draft
Students examine anti-war TV ads concerning the war in Iraq. They research information concerning the war, quotes made by generals, and the importance of a strong military. Students explore the possibility of enacting a draft and...
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World without Trees Composition
Fourth graders write a composition on what they think the world would be like without trees. They brainstorm ideas of what they think the world would be like treeless, and creative a story. A rubric is distributed to the students which...
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Underground Railroad Research Report
Fourth graders complete a research paper on the Underground Railroad. They use internet and traditional resources to gather information from a list provided by the instructor. They use their information to write their paper. Students...
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The New York Draft
Students investigate the draft that originated in New York during the time of the Civil War. They examine the primary resource of a newspaper article from the time in order to gather information. The students check the grammar of the...