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Journal Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students gain a better understanding of good journal writing. They examine how there are two types of journals - personal and public, yet each serves to describe the writers feelings and experiences about a given event.
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Crazy Critters Creative Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students brainstorm animals with unusual characteristics such as a giraffe with a short neck or a zebra without stripes. They write paragraphs about their animals and work in peer editing groups to refine their stories.
Writing
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Young Writers Workshop

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this Easter writing worksheet, students will write a short story about Betty and her Easter basket. The first sentence and blank writing lines are provided.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

For Students 3rd - 12th Standards
The motto for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry warns that one should never tickle a sleeping dragon, but learners will definitely be tickled by the activities in a packet of materials designed to accompany a reading of the...
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Collective Poetry: Teaching Tolerance

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Help your class create collective poetry following a simple, engaging model from Teaching Tolerance (tolerance.org). Each young poet writes five things on an index card: sayings from others, favorite sound, favorite place, favorite...
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12 Days of Christmas

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars utilize different problem-solving strategies and creative writing when dealing with the words from the song, "12 Days of Christmas." They try to problem solve how may presents were given and then explain their sequence in...
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Ain't Gonna Rain No More

For Teachers K - 3rd
For this creative writing lesson, pupils listen to the song "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More", read the book adaptation titled I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!, and pay close attention to the rhyming scheme, punctuation and illustrations. ...
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Myths, Folktales, & Fairy Tales for Grades K-3

For Teachers K - 3rd
Have your class explore the art of storytelling through this instructional activity on fairy tales and folktales. Learners interact with a variety of fairy tales and folktales. They practice telling stories out loud as well as writing...
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University of Arizona

Yoruba Legends: Southern Nigeria

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Explore legends and storytelling with your learners. After listening to some legends, pupils work collaboratively and then individually to come up with original legends about animals.
PPT
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Day 1 - Synonyms

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Looking for a good presentation on synonyms? This presentation could be for you! After basic instruction on synonyms, pupils are given many opportunities to practice using them in a variety of ways. Additionally, they learn how to use a...
Unit Plan
Syracuse City School District

Summary of Fiction and Non-Fiction Text

For Students 3rd - 6th
Somebody Wanted But So Then (SWBST)? Yes! Here's a great strategy for teaching young readers how to summarize narrative text. In addition, the packet includes exercises that show kids how to summarize nonfiction text using the classic...
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Creating Supporting Characters

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Supporting characters need detail and characteristics just like a main character. Keep your budding authors entrenched in detail as they write their novels. This instructional activity focuses on developing supporting characters using...
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Rudyard Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi: Mixing Words and Pictures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Create meaningful illustrations to accompany stories in a web-based art and literacy lesson focused on "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling. The class takes a virtual art safari with the Museum of Modern Art and then discusses how...
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Close Reading of Bullfrog at Magnolia Circle: Main Ideas about the Bullfrog

For Teachers 3rd Standards
As your class reaches the end of the book Bullfrog at Magnolia Circle, the seventh instructional activity in this literary unit helps third graders transition from reading narrative to expository writing. Scholars develop their...
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Beauty of the Harvest

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students collect information from Beauty of the Harvest and Native American culture to determine what women accomplished in their daily lives. After organizing and thoughtfully considering this information, students create their own...
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Oregon Trail Art

For Teachers K - 6th
Students describe events that happened on the Oregon Trail and in the daily lives of Native Americans by writing a narrative essay of a family traveling through Nebraska based on Thomas Hart Benton's paintings.
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Middle Ages Writing Journal

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a Middle Ages writing journal with narrative, expository and persuasive prompts.  In this creative writing lesson plan, students are given a list of Middle Ages topics and begin working in their journals. This is a...
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Giants Of The Past

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners create a paper sculpture based on ancient Greek and Roman statues in the Getty Museum. For this paper sculpture lesson plan, students read the story The Mysterious Giant of Barletta by Tomie dePaola. They then make a sculpture...
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Chop, Chop, Who's There?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars write a letter of persuasion about the problems facing the rainforest. They examine and write about how humans are destroying the rainforest.
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Holidays Around the World

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore how different holiday traditions are celebrated around the world. Scholars write a paper describing how they celebrate their own favorite holiday. Email partners, from different states and countries, share their...
Printables
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T-shirt With Primary Writing Lines

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this writing worksheet, students use the T-shirt shape with blank primary lines for any creative writing purpose. This lined paper matches the blank T-shirt on another page which could be used as part of a shape book.
Worksheet
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A Serious Question

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this creative writing worksheet, students read a poem about a kitten called "A Serious Question" by Carolyn Wells. Students rewrite the poem, filling in the blanks with different words on their own.
Writing
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Creative Writing Picture Prompt - Aliens

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this creative writing worksheet, students examine a picture prompt of an alien and a frog prince. They write a story about the picture.
Worksheet
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My Feelings

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this writing worksheet, students make a list of all the things that make them sad, happy, lonely, angry, afraid and silly. Students then write 6 short poems and put them together to make their own personal book of poems.

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