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Creative Writing

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in an observation hike in this lesson. They orally share observations from their hike, and develop a paragraph in a shared writing exercise. Finally, the write their paragraph about process writing in their...
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A Soldier's Valentine

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create Valentine's for soldiers in Iraq. They review how to write a friendly paragraph and discuss the military and duties of soldiers in Iraq. They create postcards and write reasons why they are rpoud of the military and how...
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Penguin Paradise

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners read about penguins and communicate their information in a one paragraph summary. In this penguin writing lesson, students review sentence construction. Learners complete a KWL about penguins and read the book Penguins Through...
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Multimedia Valentine's Card

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a Valentine's card stack for a special person of their choice. They write a clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs that create a central idea. Students use the computer to create a HyperStudio two card stack....
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Describing How to Get a Shop or Restaurant

For Students 4th - 5th
In this descriptive paragraph worksheet, students first draw a map showing how to get to a location. Students then write sentences explaining how to get to a location using directional phrases. Students then write the sentences into a...
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The Difference is...You

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students think of a way to change the world and write a descriptive paragraph about it. In this change the world lesson plan, they view a clip from a movie such as Pay It Forward and then choose their own way to change the world.
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Read All About it

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners create and publish a newspaper that reflects and explains pioneer and medieval societies. They become newspaper writers for a specific time period. They adopt a holistic approach to exploring community life in medieval and...
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Adjectives Add Interest

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A world without adjectives would be a sad place indeed! Make sure adjectives stay around by teaching your class about what they are and how using them can make a boring story truly interesting. Learners put this idea into practice by...
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Stop Talking

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Third, fourth, and fifth graders practice the correct usage of grammar rules through the editing and correction of a variety of poorly written paragraphs. You create (or find) the paragraphs, as they are not provided here. And be sure to...
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Autumn Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students review and brainstorm the signs of autumn through a PowerPoint presentation/ lesson with embedded video clips. After brainstorming ideas as a group, Students use Kidspiration to develop a graphic organizer and follow the writing...
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Truly Amazing Mammals

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Explore the world of amazing mammals with your kids with special needs. Each child identifies one mammal from a previous lesson and writes a short paragraph on that mammal. This lesson states that it is intended for all levels, but not...
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The Writing Process

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Show your young researchers how to find information, brainstorm a topic, map or outline their own stories, and create rough drafts. This instructional activity also shows learners how to peer edit, conference with the teacher, and write...
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Learning to Organize Writing

For Students 2nd - 4th
Encourage focus and organization in the writing of your second, third, and fourth grade classes. Learners are asked to select a room in their house and narrow in on how it looks, smells, or feels. After writing a short paragraph...
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Sports and Hobby Math

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore math concepts as they relate to real world situations. Young analysts consider a personal hobby or favorite sport and list three ways math is involved in the hobby. They create several related math story problems and write a...
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Hatchet: Multicultural Strategy

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Sometimes it's easier to read one part of a novel when focusing on discussion points. Partners work together to read a few paragraphs of Chapter 5 from Gary Paulsen's Hatchet and discuss the plot and theme of the book.
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Cooperative Learning, Sci., Tech., Lang

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research, write, edit, revise and present a paragraph, using word processor, about animal of their choice, including description, where animal lives, what it eats, its habits, e.g. is it endangered, migration, hibernation,...
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Using Word Referents

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students edit an existing piece of writing focusing of improving word choice. They create lists of words that can be used in place of the main topic and rewrite the piece using the new vocabulary.
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What's Behind that Mask?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use a "spider web" graphic organizer to record information about different types of masks they are familiar with. They write a paragraph about masks. Students read about Native American cultures and compare/contrast the...
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Mood

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students analyze their feelings after reading or listening to music. In this moods lesson, students react to the feelings generated by the story or music they heard. Students pair edit their stories.
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Relating to Franklin's Age of Reason

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read a selection describing 13 virtues from "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin." They keep track of their behavior and whether or not they can keep up with 5 chosen virtues. They write a 5 paragraph essay on their...
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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create and write mini books.  In this Dr. Seuss activity, students bring in their favorite Dr. Seuss book, share why it is their favorite with the class and write a paragraph explaining why they like it.  Students...
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Trait Variations for Survival

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young learners examine how different traits could give one organism an advantage over another. In groups, they view two different organisms in different environments. To end the lesson, they complete a Venn Diagram on the two organisms...
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Outdoor Photography with Digital Cameras

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students become familiar with perspective, composition and framing of pictures. In this photographing nature instructional activity, students photograph and then describe their pictures in a paragraph. Students build pictures to tell a...
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Climate Change

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss global warming. In this global warming lesson, students read an article about global warming and list five things they learned. Students work in small groups to compare what they wrote. Students illustrate one of the...

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