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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Finding Your Story: Helping Students Begin Their Memoir

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students write their memoir. In this memoir activity, students study the differences between an autobiography and a memoir. Students construct an outline as the basis for their memoir.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Diamonte Writing

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discover poetry while practicing their storytelling skills.  In this language arts lesson, students read diamonte and acrostic poems written by other students on the Internet.  Students create their own narrative stories about a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Lightning Thief: Vocabulary Strategy

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Take an in-depth look into the vocabulary from the novel, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. With a list of words to choose from, scholars discover the definition, origin, stories associated with the...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Proofreading a Book Report and Story

For Students 4th - 5th
In this proofreading a passage about the book Mutiny! and five short stories worksheet, students read the report and passages and answer questions to correct the grammatical errors. Students choose 21 multiple choice answers and click on...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson Plan for The Little Red Hen

For Teachers K - 2nd
Cultivate young performers while teaching them about helping one another with this interactive storytelling lesson. Elementary schoolers read or listen to the story The Little Red Hen by Mike Lockett and then act out the story while...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Collective Poetry: Teaching Tolerance

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Help your class create collective poetry following a simple, engaging model from Teaching Tolerance (tolerance.org). Each young poet writes five things on an index card: sayings from others, favorite sound, favorite place, favorite...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Personal Narrative - Part Five

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Create a class anthology with your young writers. In this personal narrative lesson, each writer reflects on actions and events from their own lives and chronicles them in a three-part written sequence. They create a table of contents...
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Activity
Ziptales

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Scholars create a brochure that features three aspects of the poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin." The program details information about Robert Browning, the poem's setting, and its events. 
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Writing with Interjections

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Challenge young writers to craft original sentences using interjections from a list provided on a colorful worksheet.
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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Unit 3: King Arthur and the Round Table

For Teachers 4th Standards
Over four weeks, fourth graders study King Arthur and the Round Table, retold by Alice M. Hadfield. Fifteen lessons take pupils through each chapter, complete word work, and the writing process to draft paragraphs, sentences, dialogue,...
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Lesson Plan
Nazareth College

Creative Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students discuss creative writing—what makes something creative writing? Each learner starts writing a story and after 15 minutes, they pass their story to another who adds to it. After another 15 minutes of writing, the story is passed...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing Original Adventures About Imaginary Sidekicks

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students explore storytelling by conceptualizing a story with classmates. In this publishing lesson, students identify the idea development process and discuss word choice when writing a story. Students utilize a graphic organizer to...
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Writing
Curated OER

Write a Story

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this creative writing worksheet, students write a story about the picture on the worksheet of a boy chasing a frog.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Passive Sentences- A Thanksgiving Story

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Thanksgiving story instructional activity, students read a short story before choosing five sentences to change to passive sentences. They write the 5 sentences on the lines below the story.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Witch of Blackbird Pond

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students utilize their reading comprehension abilities by discussing a story in class.  In this story analysis lesson, students read the story Witch of Blackbird Pond and answer questions in their reading journal.  Students discuss the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Nate the Great: Write Your Own Mystery

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this Nate the Great writing activity worksheet, students fill in the 26 blanks in "The Case of the Missing Book" with noun, adjective, and adverbs to create their own mystery.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Understanding Characters

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars analyzing characters from a story by creating an article about one.  In this story analysis lesson, students read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, and pick one character to write descriptively about.  Young...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Adventurous Magic

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate storytelling by creating their own dialogue. In this writing development lesson, students read the story Jeremy Thatch, Dragon Hatcher in class and discuss their own magical object they wish to write a story about....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Cricket in Times Square

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore vocabulary by reading a contemporary story in class. In this English literature lesson, 4th graders read the story A Cricket in Times Square and practice using the vocabulary words from the story. Students...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Literacy: Slowly, Slowly, Slowly Said the Sloth

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore language arts by analyzing a children's book in class. In this vocabulary lesson, students read the book Slowly, Slowly, Slowly... by Eric Carle. Students identify the characters, setting and plot of the story before...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Final Topic Selection

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Read The Quicksand Book by Tomie dePaola while taking notes about the story.  Perform a read-aloud, and work your way through the text with your youngsters. With this plan, learners also write about ideas from a previous day, and detail...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Preparing to Write

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students practice writing techniques by creating a draft of a story.  In this creative writing lesson, students discuss organizational techniques writers use to plan out a story they wish to write.  Students have the option to write...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Art and Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine the writing process by describing a piece of art.  In this art analysis lesson, students examine a painting in a museum and write a story describing the painting to someone who has never seen it before.  Students create...
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Organizer
Curriculum Corner

Book Study: The Mitten

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Looking for a set of resources to compliment a reading of The Mitten by Jan Brett? A fun winter resource has everything from story sequencing and writing prompts to a parts of speech sort and a mitten flap book. The activities are great...

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