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Writing Descriptive Paragraphs

For Teachers 4th
Show a Powerpoint presentation about descriptive writing. Fourth graders brainstorm a list of writing topics and place them in graphic organizers. Then they write their own paragraphs describing topics of their choice and create...
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Worksheet
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I Have Never Been So Angry

For Students 4th - 5th
In this writing worksheet, students read the story starter which says "I have never been so angry as the time..." Students finish the story.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing a Summary

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Skim, reread, and then take notes. The step-by-step procedure outlined in this resource can be used to help pupils write a summary of a reading passage. Using their notes, class members then draft a summary focusing on the main idea and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Integrating the Craft of Writing into Physical Education

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Incorporate writing into your physical education class. In groups, learners unscramble a list of words related to exercise and use them in their journal writings. Using their name, they write one word related to physical activity that...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Male Image Building Utilizing the Writing Process

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Introduce your class to the techniques of proper writing. In groups, they brainstorm their ideas on family structures and discuss the importance of having a male figure in their lives. After listening to an African-American poem, they...
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What's the Big Deal?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners listen to a passage (suggested reading: "Do a Cat's Eyes Glow?") and create a map of what they hear. They use the map to write a summary. Then, they read their own passages and independently map and summarize it the same way....
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PPT
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Editing - Improving Our Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This short, but informative, presentation does a good job of teaching valuable skills associated with editing writing. Learners practice editing pieces of writing, and are introduced to powerful verbs and adverbs to make writing more...
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PPT
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Fables: A Short Anthology

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Explore fables with your class. Learners read a series of fables, including The Mouse and the Lion, and then match the moral to the correct story. This is a great way to end a unit on fables. This resource could also be used to explain...
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Writing
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Writing Bug - Inquiring Minds Want to Know - #5

For Students 4th - 6th
In this journal writing activity, students are given four headlines for news stories published in tabloid newspapers. Students write the story that might have matched one of the headlines.
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Lesson Plan
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Common and Proper Nouns

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Identify nouns in speech and writing. Learners find all the nouns in a read-aloud story. Then, they complete a worksheet that reviews the use of nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, and interjections. A list of...
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What's The Story?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Teams of learners integrate reading, writing, math, social studies, and science in this simple, yet effective lesson. They work in groups in order to solve a ten-step problem which requires internet research, the use of a calculator, and...
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PPT
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Paragraphs

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Here is a clever way for young writers to turn a classic nursery rhyme into a story with paragraphs. The final slide invites pupils to write a paragraph describing Miss Muffet, the Spider, the Spider's movements, her reaction, and the...
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Global Story Book

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students work with a school in another country to produce a Global Story Book. They write stories and design pictures that describe both cultures.
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Lesson Plan
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Walk in My Shoes: A Shoe's Perspective

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Help learners write a creative story from the viewpoint of a shoe. The teacher brings a variety of different types of shoes to the classroom and each person chooses one. They then write a story from the point of view of the shoe,...
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The Importance of Storytelling

For Teachers K - 5th
Students examine how African Americans escaping slavery used storytelling to communicate. They listen to and read the lyrics for the song, Follow the Drinking Gourd, view the Reading Rainbow video, and write and illustrate their own story.
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Lesson Plan
Pearson

Catching the Sun: Tales from Asia

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Explore the folklore of Asia and the South Pacific with this language arts lesson series. Complementing a reading of Catching the Sun: Tales from Asia by Jan M. Mike, this resource supports learners with understanding cause and effect...
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Worksheet
K5 Learning

Damon and Pythias

For Students 4th Standards
True friendship is priceless. Fourth graders read a short story about two friends who are willing to give up everything for each other — even their lives.
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Activity
Seussville

Oh! the Places You'll Go!

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th Standards
Honor Dr. Seuss on his birthday with a read aloud of the story Oh! the Places You'll Go! and a variety of activities that inspire scholars to dream of their future endeavors. Readers take part in conversations, research the life of...
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Lesson Plan
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Tabloid Tales

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students write news stories to accompany tabloid headlines. In this tabloid lesson plan, students learn the power of persuasion and exaggeration by writing stories based on actual tabloid headlines.
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Lesson Plan
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Draw a Map

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars draw a map. In this map drawing lesson students draw a map to show where a character is from and where they are going in the story. Young scholars are writing an odyssey.  
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Unit Plan
Mary Pope Osborne, Classroom Adventures Program

The Backpack Travel Journals

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Strap on those backpacks, it's time to travel through history with this literature unit based on the first four books of The Magic Tree House series. While reading through these fun stories, children create story maps, record interesting...
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Study Guide
Scholastic

A Reading Guide to A Wrinkle in Time

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Accompany a reading of Madeleine L'Engle's classic tale, A Wrinkle in Time, with a detailed guide equipped with 15 informative and useful chapters. Scholars discover who the author is, why she wrote the book, and crucial story elements...
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PPT
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The Gardener

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Here is one of the better presentations I've come across! This one uses the book, The Gardener to help learners enter the world of creative writing while learning a whole lot about the world of gardening. This fantastic PowerPoint...
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Lesson Plan
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Finding Your Story: Helping Students Begin Their Memoir

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Pupils write their memoir. In this memoir lesson, students study the differences between an autobiography and a memoir. Pupils construct an outline as the basis for their memoir.

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