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Royal Conservatory of Music

The Anti-bullying Magazine

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Get the word out about friendship, support, and a safe school community with a media literacy lesson about bullying. Young journalists investigate instances of bullying and take descriptive pictures as they compile a magazine to fight...
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CJ Hatcher & Associates, Inc.

Skill Building with the Newspaper

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
Extra, extra, read all about it! Use a newspaper as the primary resource in a special education classroom to teach reading, writing, and math skills. The activities help class members build their reading skills as well as their knowledge...
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Curated OER

What Do I Write About?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders write as essay describing the cooperative group drawing they made or describing the process to draw a group picture.
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Curated OER

Creating Life Maps (Elementary, Reading/Writing)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a personal life timeline to better explain how a historical timeline is effective in studying history. They also write a poem about themselves.
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Curated OER

Write into Fantasy, Humor and Suspense

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss the characteristics of several different writing genres. They are given a prompt to and work in groups to continue writing in the style of a humorous, fantasy or suspense story. They share their stories with the class.
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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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Curated OER

Counting Sentences' Words

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Explore language arts by completing a worksheet with class. They read the story Owl Moon and discuss the rhythm of the writing and how action verbs are used appropriately. Then complete a writing worksheet which discusses writing...
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Curated OER

Design Life: Exploring Society Through Art

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Introduce learners to the design elements and artifacts of interior environments in Victorian Canada (or any people and era you care to explore) based on artwork that represents their world. Your secondary social historians view the art...
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Curated OER

Edgar Allen Poe And The Art Of Composition

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers evaluate several works by Edgar Allen Poe based on the criteria in his essay, "The Philosophy of Composotion" Their analysis is documented using a graphic organizer. Learners begin the pre-writing process for their own...
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Curated OER

Getting Hooked, Introduction for a Narrative

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
How can you interest your reader? Here is a great lesson on reading and discussing the characteristics of a narrative. Elementary schoolers explore writing techniques to hook the reader. They identify their hook and share their...
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Curated OER

Spooky Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Focus on building suspense as well as evaluating web sites through creative writing. After introducing the idea of suspense and holding a discussion, class members complete a WebQuest, during which they find inspiration for their own...
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Curated OER

Language Arts: Telling a Painting's Story

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Use art museum paintings as inspiration for your class's creative writing works. Observing the paintings closely, middle and high schoolers list details and write descriptions. Their completed stories are displayed on bulletin boards...
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Curated OER

Lights! Cameras! Action!: Creating a Drama About the Lyme Art Colony

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Discuss the lives of artists in the Lyme Art Colony in the 1900s with this resource. Young historians write and perform a short scene depicting individuals who lived in the Griswold boardinghouse, used by the colony artists. They use the...
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Curated OER

Monster Lesson

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders write a detailed description of a monster or alien they have created. They e-mail the description to another student, and the e-mail buddy draws the monster based on the descriptive writing.
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Curated OER

ArtWords: Writing about Art Then and Now

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use observation skills to develop skills inc. They develop thinking skills and develop descriptive writing. They refine their thinking with concrete materials and make a collage that updates this mural to reflect current culture.
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Curated OER

Terrific Taste Buds

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore descriptive writing by eating food in class. In this descriptive word lesson, students assess different foods in class such as jelly beans and utilize their vocabulary to describe the taste. Students read the story...
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Curated OER

Illustrating Student Writing in Grades 1-3

For Teachers K - 5th
Students depict story elements in a visual medium, exhibit creativity through the completion of the drawn image, and practice computer skills. They use Microsoft Word to write about who they would like to meet, using Microsoft Paint they...
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Curated OER

Write Acrostic Poetry

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore acrostic poetry and use names of their favorite personalities from television, music, or sports. They write descriptions for each letter of the person's name.
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Curated OER

Ready, Aim, Focus!

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Use photography as a tool to improve writing skills. Provide pupil pairs with a digital camera and challenge them to capture images of the classroom they find visually striking. Each class member then composes a descriptive piece about...
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Curated OER

Descriptive Essay

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review previously written essays, draw pictures of shapes, and write descriptive essays.
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Curated OER

There's a Monster in My E-Mail!

For Teachers K - 12th
Don't be scared of these monsters! Middle schoolers make new friends as they practice their drawing, writing, and computer skills. They participate in a collaborative e-mail project in which they draw and describe pictures of monsters...
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Hawaiʻi State Department of Education

Imaginary Creatures

For Teachers 1st
Drama and movement are wonderful ways to cover story elements such as setting, character, and descriptive writing. Little ones listen to a poem about imaginary creatures. As they listen, they shape their bodies into what they think the...
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Cherokee County Schools

Simple Machines Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
The choice is simple: create a PowerPoint presentation, write a book, or invent a compound machine. Whichever project your young scientists choose, they will be engaged in creatively demonstrating their knowledge of simple machines and...
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Poppin Popcorn

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use their senses to write descriptive sentences. In this descriptive writing instructional activity, students discuss their senses. Students are asked to look at and feel unpopped corn kernels. Students then write descriptions...

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