In this lesson, students respond to daily autobiographical writing assignments that will be published in a book.
This article emphasizes the importance of focus on composition in the writing process.
In this lesson, students construct a necklace in order to visualize a plan for including a central idea, supporting facts, and a clincher sentence in a written piece.
Students will receive a choice board of different activities and will have to choose one. After choosing their activity, students can be placed into small groups to work collaboratively or can work independently. Each team/student will be presenting to either the whole class or their small group.
Summary: Students will receive a choice board of different activities and will have to choose one. After choosing their activity, students can be placed into small groups to work collaboratively or can work independently. Each team/student will be presenting to either the whole class or their small group.
Summary: Students will receive a choice board of different activities and will have to choose one. After choosing their activity, students can be placed into small groups to work collaboratively or can work independently. Each team/student will be presenting to either the whole class or their small group.
Students will receive a choice board of different activities and will have to choose one. After choosing their activity, students can be placed into small groups to work collaboratively or can work independently. Each team/student will be presenting to either the whole class or their small group.
Students will receive a choice board of different activities and will have to choose one. After choosing their activity, students can be placed into small groups to work collaboratively or can work independently. Each team/student will be presenting to either the whole class or their small group.
In this lesson, students write and share a symbolic poem about simple things that stand for deeper subjects.
A teachers guide for five Jack Henry books by Jack Gantos (Jack Adrift, Jack on the Tracks, Heads or Tails, Jack's New Power, Jack's Black Book), including an activity to complete throughout reading, discussion questions for each book as well as questions to draw connections between themes, and ways to connect themes and key subjects in the books to other areas of education.
Students will explore how an artist emphasized the narrative in a work of art that depicts a single moment from the story. They then write a newspaper article, using visual clues in the painting to imagine how the narrative depicted many have unfolded.
This resource details ten exercises to prepare students for writing a narrative essay.
In this lesson, students explore how word choice, line length, punctuation, and rhythm contribute to the overall effect of a poem.
In this lesson, students study issues related to independence and notions of manliness in Ernest Hemingway’s “Three Shots” as they conduct in-depth literary character analysis, consider the significance of environment to growing up and investigate Hemingway’s Nobel Prize-winning, unique prose style. In addition, they will have the opportunity to write and revise a short story based on their own childhood experiences and together create a short story collection.
Students will closely observe objects, encouraging poetic, "outside the box" thinking, encouraging innovation, writing about setting, using descriptive details in writing.
In this lesson, students create a timeline with 4 important national and world events in their life, and write an essay about their life including those 4 events.
This resource gives ten different activities for spurring students to write creatively.
In this lesson, students practice pre-writing techniques such as using graphic organizers, checklists, and a rubric.
In this lesson, students become familiar with point of view while rewriting their favorite fairy tale from another character's perspective other than the one in which it is written.
In this lesson, students will engage in close reading to learn how people lived in the late 19th century. Students will also visualize a main character in a text, and then create an in-depth dialogue between two people, using details from the text.