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The Personal Narrative - Part Five

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Create a class anthology with your young writers. In this personal narrative lesson, each writer reflects on actions and events from their own lives and chronicles them in a three-part written sequence. They create a table of contents...
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Harry Potter: Study Questions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Elementary learners explore fiction storytelling through partcipating in a survey. They identify the characters, themes and plot of the Harry Potter series while discussing their opinions in class. Learners conduct a survey about their...
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Techno Movie

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore storytelling by using video editing software. In this movie making lesson, students identify the uses of PowerPoint and create a story using a digital camera which takes stills or video. Students combine this footage...
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Oral History Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Oral history has brought a multitude of lessons, stories, and factoids to our current knowledge of the past. Let us continue to use oral history traditions through a lesson that encourages pupils to discover and appreciate where they...
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Telling the Stories the Past Tells Us

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Learners create historical stories based on factual evidence. In this Telling the Stories the Past Tells Us lesson, students write historical stories using strategies such as characters, plot, setting, and voice. Learners analyze several...
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A Moment When My Life Changed

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners recognize symbols in a work of art, analyze composition of picture by Hollis Sigler, and plan and execute compositions that successfully tell stories, primarily with symbols.
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Legends of the Fifth

For Teachers 5th
Students explore the the legends and myths of the Orient, Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas in this six lessons unit. Different cultures and belief systems of the inhabitants of these areas are examined through storytelling techniques.
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The Best Song Ever-- Story Starter

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, young scholars read a story starter "The best song of all time is..." Students finish the story, telling about their favorite song and why they like it.
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Understanding Fantasy Fiction

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate storytelling elements by writing their own fiction stories.  In this creative writing lesson, students listen as the teacher reads a fictional story.  Students analyze the lack of rules in the story and create their...
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Personal Narrative

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore personal stories by investigating narrative writing. In this nonfiction writing lesson, students participate in a workshop in which they write three events from their own life. Students write first drafts of these...
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Revising/Editing (3-5): Editing Marks. Part II and Literary Tools. Part II

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Familiarize your class with commonly used editing marks. They apply the use of editing marks to a letter and examine different types of literary tools before making a note card resource for the tools. They add their own examples for each...
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Story Pyramids

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young writers generate descriptive words. They use pictures of various landscapes (from books, magazines, or the Internet) and complete a story pyramid. The pyramid (included here) asks to describe the main character, the setting, and...
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So What's New?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students write a story telling the news to someone who has not been around for three years.
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Lesson Plan 11: Beginnings

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Every good novel needs a solid beginning! Setting the stage can have your budding authors stumped, so use this instructional activity to get them thinking. After examining the plot rollercoaster image (included) they consider the four...
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Lesson Plan 17: Novel, Take 2

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
It's all about using peer resources in this writing process lesson, which includes a fantastic novel revision worksheet packet. Learners have read a partner's story draft the night before, and groups have a "lightning round of praise"...
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Narrative Writing

For Teachers 5th - 9th Standards
If you're looking to start a unit based around narrative writing, make sure to consider this resource while you're planning. This book covers five topics: writing personal narratives, writing narratives about others, writing narratives...
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Reliving History through Slave Narratives

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Helpful for an American literature or history unit, this lesson prompts middle schoolers to examine slavery in the United States. They read slave narratives that were part of the Federal Writers' Project and then conduct their own...
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Giving Students a Way to Publish Their Writing

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students are inspired to write about what they see using Internet publishing.
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Creating and Acting Mammal Stories

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders write and perform stories on mammals. They review the parts of a narrative story and write stories. They rehearse their stories and present them to the class. They make mammal cookies after their peformance.
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Building a Volcano

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students research volcanoes and then build one out of salt dough. Before the final step is completed, they find main ideas about volcanoes, write sequential steps to building, use correct grammar, to gain knowledge about them. There is...
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Introduction to Traditional Oral Narratives

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students are introduced to the idea of traditional oral narratives and divide them into genres. They explore the genres of context, motifs and variants. Each student finds oral narratives in their own lives and practice retelling them in...
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Picture This

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners explore finding facts from the Internet to create a nonfiction story. In this writing lesson, students fill out KWL charts and do internet research about the given topic of spiders. Learners then create and illustrate their non...
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Protecting Our Native Forests

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore environmental awareness by utilizing computer technology. In this ecosystem conservation lesson plan, students read assigned text which describes the current ecological conditions of Hawaii. Students collaborate in...
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Cinquain Poems

For Teachers 2nd - 10th
Students write five-line, diamond shaped poems that are very easy to write then submit one through an automatic PIZZAZZ form.

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