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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Memory Game for Kids

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Young writers brainstorm three sensory details about a personal memory before writing about it. If they need help with a memory, they can click the magic button to help spark their memory. Their writing should include sensory details.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Narrative for Expository Text

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Lesson in which students read various narrative texts which provide a context for them to learn content-area topics. Narratives allow the students to begin to understand expository texts.
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Other

Abc: Narrative Art

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Art analysis can lead to a better understanding of the artist's intentions. This lesson plan teaches ways to "read" a painting and find meaning in a narrative work of art.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Sequence a Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and write the main events of the story on sentence strips. Materials are included.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Smart Math and Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, the poem "Smart" from Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein, is used as the mentor text. Students will write a map of the poem and then analyze it to discover what happened when trades with money were made and...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Pay It Forward

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Recalling an act of kindness helps students practice narration skills. The teacher will read "Because Brian Hugged His Mother" and discuss the idea of "paying it forward" as a class. Then students will write and draw about a time when...
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University of Oregon

Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Storytelling Boxes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This PIZZAZ lesson allows students the opportunity to engage in the small group task of audio-storytelling or video storytelling, after being given a shoebox filled with symbols and unique items.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing a Roundabout Story

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text to highlight the trait of organization. The content focus of the lesson is to highlight that authors' story structures can be imitated. Story...
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Other

Web Worksheet Wizard: Narrative and Descriptive Prompts

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Come and check out this list of narrative and descriptive writing prompts. These can be used as springboards for your writing.
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Word by Word a Story Game

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
For grades 1 to 3, this game has students write a story by focusing on the word choice.
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Other

Jefferson County Schools: Print a Prompt

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
Check out this resourceful site featuring "Print a prompt." Students can choose from several different titles and prompts and they are provided with a printed copy.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Better Living Through Science

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson involves research on scientists whose accomplishments have impacted areas of nutrition, sanitation, or health care. Young scholars will research an area of their choice, record information on a graphic organizer, and use the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Glorious Sunflowers

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson young scholars will identify, measure and graph seeds and other characteristics of sunflowers and write descriptive and narrative paragraphs about sunflowers. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Very Quiet Cricket

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
During this lesson, students will write a sequel to The Very Quiet Cricket. The students will discuss and demonstrate the use of personification in the story. The class will also complete a WebQuest about The Very Quiet Cricket.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Hook Those Fish!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students will read chapter and picture books to discover how the author "hooked" the reader. Students will then practice using the same strategies in their own writing.
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Education.com

Education.com: W.3.3 B Worksheets: Use Dialogue and Descriptions

For Students 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 30 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.3.3B: Write Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using...
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New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: Fools and Tricksters in Literature

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
There are many trickster folk tales in folklore and in modern literature; they are found in every culture. They often use an animal that represents the underdog, which uses skill and cunning to outwit a superior. These stories have been...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Sandwich Story Starters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
These simple activities actively reinforce the importance of writing a story that is complete: one that has a good, solid beginning; a middle of substance, detail, and high interest; and a satisfying ending.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Expository vs Narrative Intros

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives examples of expository and narrative introductions. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.a
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix:a Right Brained Writing Prompt: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter S

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
Students use the alliteration generator to spark an idea for an alliterative narrative using the letter "S" and focusing on word choice and playing with words. An online page and a word choice checklist are provided for students to type...
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Write a Short Story

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Compare and contrast two works of art that show groups of people in two different settings. Then choose one of the paintings to write a short story.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco by Janice Repka

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
This lesson will lead students in relating literature to their own lives. The book, The Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco, will be read aloud to students. Afterward, students will create short stories about things which they'd like to change...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Legendary Lighthouses

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
In this technology-based interdisciplinary lesson, students will discover many facts about lighthouses by navigating the Internet. Students have the opportunity to use the facts they learn to create their own stories about lighthouses.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Planning Story Characters Using Interactive Trading Cards

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students use trading cards to examine fictional characters in a story.

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