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Lesson Plan 12: Writing With All Your Senses
What does an ice cream sundae sound like? Challenge young writers to move beyond visual descriptions and craft details that appeal to all five senses. The examples provided by the script in this resource show pupils how to create rich...
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Talking Heads
After processing notes from research or an interview, middle schoolers turn the information into a script or dialogue for narrative, persuasive, or expository text. Use this lesson in any writing unit to reinforce proper writing skills.
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The Tom Cruise Wedding
Scholars read a newspaper article about Tom Cruise's wedding to Katie Holmes in 2006. They define vocabulary words, complete comprehension worksheets, and analyze use of the present perfect and passive in the article. Individuals write...
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Scriptwriting Skill Module
Students identify and analyze conflicts in plots. In this conflict instructional activity students recall stories, novels and movies they've read or seen and discuss the conflicts contained therein. They then complete some written...
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Write a Radio Show
Students use the writing process to write a radio show. For this writing process lesson, students need to effectively use the writing process to create a radio show and then present to the class. Member of the group take different...
Marilyn Burns Education Associates
Eighteen Flavors
Your learners will be tantalized by this inquiry-based, collaborative activity as they discover how to write an equation that represents the height of an ice cream cone. Given the scenario based on the poem, "Eighteen Flavors," and...
Brigham Young University
Introducing the Text and Learning the Process of Script Analysis
Where do directors and set designers get their ideas so that the set they build creates the mood and atmosphere the director wants for a production? From the script! Introduce theater high schoolers to the script analysis techniques used...
New York City Department of Education
Theater Units for Lower and Upper Elementary Levels
Introduce middle schoolers to playwriting and the elements of drama with a six-session storytelling unit that encourages kids to expand their acting and writing skills. The 12-page packet includes overviews of the lessons, assessment...
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MONSTERS AND MYTHS: SCRIPTS /SCULPTS
Seventh graders are introduced to myths formed by many cultures as a unique genre of literature. They use critical thinking skills to compare and contrast mythic tales, compare versions of the same story, and respond to literature in...
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Day four: Writing a Sports Article
Students write a newspaper article related to a sports event. In this article writing lesson, students read sports-related articles, complete a graphic organizer to help them see the format of a newspaper article, then they work in...
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Comparing Land Views of Different Cultures
Students research various legends and write a script based on that legend. For this cultural awareness lesson, students read the Native American legend telling of the origin of the earth. Students analyze how the concepts in the legend...
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So You Want to Be a TV Reporter!
Students work in pairs to interview each other. They identify interviewing skills and methods, conduct a preliminary interview, develop a working script from the notes and participate in a final interview for the camera.
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Australia: Scriptwriting
Students write a script of a play using Freytag's Pyramid on plot. In this scriptwriting lesson, students read a play and participate in a lecture/discussion about the main components of a play and the basis of drama. Students relate...
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Introduce Your Class at Open House with Microsoft Windows Movie Maker
Young scholars explore script writing. In this beginning of the year "building classroom community" lesson, students write several autobiographical sentences and introduce themselves on videotape. Young scholars share the class...
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Friends: Texting Story
Sometimes it's okay to text in school. Young computer scientists work in the Scratch program to write a text message conversation among friends. They use different sprites within the program to represent each side of the conversation to...
EngageNY
Mid-Unit Assessment: Evaluating a Novel Versus a Script
How are novels and scripts alike and different? As part of the mid-unit assessment, scholars complete a Venn diagram to compare two types of writing: a novel and a script. Next, they respond to short-answer questions, evaluating passages...
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End of Unit Assessment: Individual Sections of Readers Theater Script
Let's play! Pupils create titles for their readers theater scripts and act them out in a fun game of charades. Next, as part of their end of unit assessment, they write final copies of their individual scripts.
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End of Unit 3 Assessment: Readers Theater Commentary
Prove it! In the end-of-unit assessment, scholars write a commentary and provide evidence to justify the connection between their reader's theater scripts and To Kill A Mockingbird. After completing the assessment, they practice...
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Identify and Write About Cause and Effect Relationships
Young scholars write news reports about current issues. In this writing skills lesson, students report about the weight epidemic in the United States as they focus on fast food consumption and how it relates to poor health.
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Story Writing
Students work in groups to create a story that will be presented to the class. In this story writing instructional activity, students complete a project planning sheet, work together to create a story that includes a hero and at least...
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Writing A Story
Students write a story about past events and translate it into English. For this story writing lesson plan, students watch video clips, look at examples of stories, and write ones themselves.
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Chinese Script Decoded
In this Chinese script decoded learning exercise, students read about the history or Chinese writing, then answer 30 questions about Chinese script, with questions in English and Chinese, as part of an exhibit at the Hong Kong Museum of...
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Prewriting Strategies
Fourth graders explore various strategies to overcome fears of writing, and utilize a story map as a prewriting strategy. They read and discuss the steps of the writing process, follow the steps along with the teacher as they discuss the...
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What's In a Noun: Grammar and Usage
Nine lessons in a grammar and usage unit provide endless opportunities for drill and practice. Topics include the four types of sentences, subject and predicates, nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs and prepositions, conjunctions...
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