Learners choose one topic to write about. They brainstorm ideas about their topic or incident. They use sensory details to visualize their topic. They answer a variety of teacher directored nudging question to help them describe their...

Students study of the First Amendment, Tinker, Hazelwood and the Colorado Student Free Expression Law. They discuss the ramifications on the student press and recite their memorized First Amendment rights. They discover what can...

In this lesson young scholars will use the sentence structure from Wallace Stevens' "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."

In this lesson, learners will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.

In this lesson plan students learn how to paint a setting with their descriptive choice of words.

In this lesson the students will use the conditional "if" in order to guide their reader to become someone or something.

In this lesson students will learn the meter and rhyme of a sonnet and they will write one of their own using specific word choice.

For this lesson, students will use transition words and phrases to shift from one idea to another within a story.

In this lesson students will create a poem from the viewpoint of a lost toy.

Inspired by "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)," this lesson asks students to think about memorable writing--writing that has, in some way, touched them personally. Students will make multiple drafts of simple advice in order to make...