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Scholastic

Connecting with Ruby Bridges

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
When Ruby Bridges entered an all-white school in New Orleans in 1960, she also entered history. Scholars consider what the experience must have been like for the young girl using two books that document her experience as well as a double...
Unit Plan
Lerner Publishing

Teaching Folklore

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Wonderful worksheets and activities complementing six sequential lessons are what you'll find in this unit on folklore. Pupils create folktales using literary devices and included story starters, compare and contrast different...
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Roald Dahl

The Twits - Muggle-Wump Has an Idea

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
If a bar of chocolate was on the floor, would you try to pick it up? What if it was covered with glue? The eighth lesson in an 11-part unit designed to accompany The Twits by Roald Dahl has scholars imagine crazy scenarios. The...
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Apple State University

Friendly Letter Mini-Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This mini-instructional activity about informal letter writing is packed with a lot of information about writing a friendly letter. Class members begin by working in pairs to answer questions after reviewing letter models. Then, take...
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School District of Palm Beach County

Framed Paragraphs characterization, problem and solution, symbolism, conflict

For Teachers 4th - 10th Standards
Support your learners as they work on writing paragraphs by providing graphic organizers, outlines, and frames. Sift through this packet to find the perfect organizers and templates to prepare pupils for writing. The resource...
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Curated OER

Bringing Household Items to Life

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Use folk tales as inspiration for learning about and using personification in creative writing. Learners brainstorm together in order to practice personification before writing their own poems or paragraphs about a household object.
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Manchester University

Veteran’s Day

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Before honoring courageous veterans, get to know more about who they are and why November 11th is a special day. Scholars obtain such information through a read aloud of Eve Bunting's The Wall, grand conversation, and...
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Teach It Primary

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Six tasks make up a lesson plan designed to reinforce comprehension and language skills using the poem "The Pied Piper" by Robert Browing. Scholars discuss and define unknown words, identify adjectives and onomatopoeia, review...
PPT
Curated OER

Ingredients For a Great Story

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Focus on writing with this presentation. It includes a list of the ingredients of a great story. It is an interesting and thorough exploration of this topic. This is a great presentation to show to your class before a creative writing...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Picture Writing Prompt

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this picture prompt worksheet, students look at a picture and try to imagine what is being said, where people are going or have come from and choose a character to write a story about.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Adjectives in Stories

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this adjectives worksheet, students match adjectives with descriptions of different types of stories. Students then read a news report and fill in the spaces with adjectives that begin with the specified letters.
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Curated OER

Photo Essay

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars examine the process of writing a photo essay. They examine and select a personal photo or photo from a magazine, and brainstorm a story that can go with the photo. They identify an emotion to go with their picture, then...
Writing
Curated OER

Printable Story Starter: The Missing Valentines

For Students 3rd - 4th
A writing prompt about a classroom's missing Valentines allows students to finish the story with their own endings, and to provide their own titles. The lesson comes with a picture and the beginning of the story to full prompt students...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Telling a Story

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a story about a picture. In this writing lesson, students select a picture and write a story about what happened in the picture. Students are encouraged to write a story with a beginning, middle, and end.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making a Magical Story

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create their own magical story. In this story writing lesson, students listen to the story The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe b C.S. Lewis to find the basic elements of a story. They come up with their own magical...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Narrative Writing Outline

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the elements of a narrative for its purpose, type of audience, mood, main character, minor characters, setting, and conflicts in the story. A story outline is developed and a five paragraph essay composed in this lesson.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Comic and Film Strip Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars write a funny story and illustrate it in a comic strip. In this comic strip lesson plan, students study comic strips and determine the plot of each story. Young scholars then write a short story and illustrate it using a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Story Writing

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students examine story writing. In this writing instructional activity, students discuss the structure of a story and create a story using suspense and character description with dialogue.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Short, Short Story

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders write a short story using 100 words or less.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Children's Literature to Teach Writing: No, David!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars review beginning, middle, and end of a story and how details add to a story.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Intermediate Short Stories - "A Paper for School"

For Students 4th - 5th
In these short stories worksheets, students read the basic and advanced version of the story 'A Paper for School.' Students answer 3 comprehension questions and 4 vocabulary questions.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Finding Muffin: Writing Practice

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this finish the story activity worksheet, learners read a 3 paragraph story entitled "Finding Muffin". Students use the lines provided to finish the story as they wish.
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Zoo: Writing Activity

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this finish the story activity learning exercise, students read a 5 paragraph story entitled "The Zoo". Students use the lines provided to finish the story as they wish.
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Troublemaker: Writing Practice

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this finish the story activity worksheet, students read an unfinished short story entitled "The Troublemaker". Students use the lines provided to finish the story as they wish.

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