[Free Registration/Login Required] With this lesson plan, 3rd graders can learn to identify descriptive language. Focused on the book "Mr. George Baker."

Online lesson which allows for students to create an electronic "Home page," for a specific character when reading a class novel. Students research and create web pages, then present findings to the class.

Barbara Greenwood, a Canadian author of numerous historical fiction books for children, has written this thirty-page writing guide where she explains the process she goes through in constructing a story. She covers such key topics as...

This lesson explains how characters develop in fiction writing. W.11-12.3d Sensory/precise lang narratives

In this lesson, students will write a descriptive paragraph regarding an animal and its habitat, or a character in a particular setting. Great cross-curricular usage of vocabulary.

Excellent classroom activities for building young scholars' character. This activity encourages students to use their knowledge and experiences, mathematical skills, and higher-order thinking skills.

After sharing chapter 19 of Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls as an example of emotion-evoking writing, the students will write their own detailed and emotional paragraphs. Students can draw from background knowledge of a real...

After hearing and discussing an excerpt from Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons, young scholars will plan to create a unique description of a character that uses memorable actions that "show" a person's character. They will brainstorm verbs...

In this lesson,writers will examine and discuss techniques that writers use to link moods to setting descriptions (Lord of the Flies by William Golding). Next, they will choose a mood and an interesting setting, and they will imagine a...

[Free Registration/Login Required] William Golding's life comes alive in this informative flipchart discussing his early life and writing career.

Students learn about Deaf Culture through presentations, cultural experts, fieldwork, and reading fiction and non-fiction books. Then students use the information they have learned to create a realistic character and write a character...

This lesson introduces indirect (learn about the characters through speech, thoughts, actions, physical description, other character's feelings) and direct characterization (author tells the reader about the character) in fiction...

An interesting article concerning the importance of setting to any piece of fiction. Gives good information about how setting affects characters and "world-building."