In this lesson, students learn about point of view by rewriting an existing narrative paragraph (using a different point-of-view). Students expand this knowledge by writing an expository paragraph, then rewriting it to reflect a different point-of-view.
In this lesson, students create autobiographies and publish them using word processing and computer graphics.
In this lesson, students write a poem made up of prepositional phrases.
This activity can be adapted among grade levels, and involves students practicing describing objects by their properties.
This article discusses ways to use technology to guide students through brainstorming activities and organization of ideas.
This resource discusses different prewriting and writing exercises.
Student choice board ELA. Adaptable for any unit/topic.
In this lesson, students use a short story as a writing prompt to predict and discuss how the story may progress.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade English Language Arts.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade ELA.
In this lesson, students participate in a segregation experiment, then reflect on and explore their feelings and reactions through poetry.
In this lesson, students will examine the various social classes and learn about the critical role that slaves, freemen, and plebeians played in the day-to-day operations of the Roman Empire. Students will learn about the various social classes and the life experiences of people from these classes. As a final activity, students will complete a creative writing assignment that addresses how the Roman class system and the use of slavery may have ultimately contributed to the downfall of the Roman Empire. Video link: http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/index.html - Go to For Educators and follow links to free video clips. The Slaves and Freemen link is broken. Use this: http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/slaves_freemen.html
For this lesson, students brainstorm several examples of plots, settings, and characters and randomly select these elements to create their own short stories.
Students brainstorm several examples of plots, settings, and characters and randomly select these elements to create their own short stories. This is the second lesson in a two-part series.
In this lesson, students write a self-portrait poem, giving the reader an indication what they are like on the inside, instead of picturing how they look on the outside.
Lesson plan where students must write an original short story that cannot contain over 100 words.
In this lesson, students create a brochure on how to succeed in school.
In this lesson, students will learn about the geography and topography of China and surrounding countries, discover how ideas, cultures, and goods were exchanged through the Silk Road, relate the ideas of trade and globalization to today, and then write a travel journal entry as if they were a participant in trade along the Silk Road.
In this lesson, students use Aesop's fable "The Dove and the Snake" to learn the importance of sensory language and sentence structure in creative writing while practicing the steps and procedures to good writing.
In this lesson, students create a magazine advertisement for the spring water, which causes a person to live forever, in the novel "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt.