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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Action Packed Rain Forest Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Jane Yolen's Welcome to the Greenhouse is used as a mentor text. Young scholars will record their favorite verbs from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Action Packed Ocean Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
For this lesson, Andrew Clement's awesome picture book, Big Al is used as a mentor text. Young scholars will record their favorite verbs from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Action Packed Zoo Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, If I Ran the Zoo, written by Dr. Seuss, is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Camping Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
In this instructional activity, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this instructional activity. When I Go Camping with Grandma, a book by Marion Dane Bauer, is used as the mentor text of...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Who/what/where/when Game: Wild Weather Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson. Brave Irene, written by William Steig, is used as the mentor text of this lesson. Learners will develop sentences with...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Tail Acrostic Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, Spring: An Alphabet Acrostic by Steven Schnur Mentor, Silver Seeds by Paul Paolilli, and Henry & The Kite Dragon by Bruce Edward Hall are used as mentor texts. Students will practice their acrostic skills on the tail...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Color Personification Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
For this lesson, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, a book written by Mary O'Neill and Red Sings, and From Treetops: a Year in Colors, a book by Joyce Sidman, are used as mentor texts. Students will brainstorm to collect different adjectives,...
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Harold D. Underdown

Derailed by Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A helpful site for writers which gives the proper perspective in assessing the detail involved in your writing. Provides examples of how to include exciting, relevant details when writing fiction.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Modifier

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a modifier in the context of a sentence.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Playing With Prepositions Through Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play with and explore prepositions during a whole group reading of Ruth Heller's Behind the Mask, and then by composing and publishing prepositional poems based on the book's style.
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Follow Directions and Draw

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
In this lesson plan students will practice and understand the importance of giving and listening to clear and concise directions. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How to Avoid Dangling Modifiers

For Students 3rd - 8th
Modifiers are phrases, clauses, or even just words that add description. In clear sentences, modifiers are next to target words they are describing. Dangling modifiers are modifiers with no target to describe, which can confuse many...
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Other

How to Study: Building Vocabulary: Using Context Clues to Learn Word Meaning

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This resource explains six ways authors use context clues that might help readers understand unfamiliar words. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.4, 8.2.B
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Digging Up Details on Worms: Using Science in an Inquiry Study

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan based on a study unit of earthworms, using the inquiry model to integrate scientific processes with literacy practices. Instruction plans, related resources, and standards are included.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Run on Sentences

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.

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