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Elementary and middle schoolers research animal facts and use them in a fable. First, they pair-share to find animal traits to use in writing a fable. They then complete a prewriting worksheet. After going through the writing process, they finish with a presentation that could be enhanced with a visual display.

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character development, characters, Narrative Writing, narratives, oral presentations, public speaking, sentence variety, sentence structure, precise language, word choice, diction, morals, writing structure, organizational skills, enunciation, reading fluency

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fable writing, character's actions, connect ideas, enunciation, moral, oral presentation, organizational structure, pacing, public speaking, visual display, precise language, sentence variety, multimedia presentation, organization, character development, english language arts
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4th - 8th
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English Language Arts
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