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Think of an Ending

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Good endings are hard to find. And write. This, the final lesson in a six-part series devoted to study of the ingredients of a good story, focuses on crafting endings. Class members draft ideas about what should happen to each of their...
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Julian Secret Agent: Commas

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Your class participates in a variety of shared reading and writing activities related to the book Julian Secret Agent. They complete a class story chart, examine how to use punctuation for dialogue, write an alternative...
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Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students receive instruction to punctuation marks in the appropriate places using provided examples. They then place the correct punctuation in the sentences on the worksheet noting that there are some punctuation marks in the...
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Alphabet Poems

For Teachers K - 1st
Develop fluency with a variety of works. Help kindergartners use multiple strategies to understand text and decoding. They will create an alphabet poem book on Kid Works 2 to illustrate and write their own poem. In the end, they will...
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Teacher Appreciation Week (Elementary)

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Primary writers will create a persuasive essay about Teacher Appreciation Week. Additionally, they will  select a quote from a famous person and write a persuasive essay about how it relates to one of their favorite teachers. In the end,...
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Computer/Grammar: Dinosaurs

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice computer skills while visiting a dinosaur Website. They write sentences there beginning with assigned letters, circle the beginning capital letter, and underline the ending punctuation.
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The End

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students listen as the teacher reads a story. Pictures are displayed as the teacher reads the story. Students jot down ideas for the story ending, and create an illustration to compliment their story. Student story endings and...
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Conventions-Interjections

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss interjections reviewing them to be words or phrases that express excitement or strong emotion. For this language arts lesson, 5th graders understand that commas or exclamation marks are used to separate...
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Heart to Heart

For Teachers 5th
Candy conversation hearts make writing a sweet pastime. Fifth graders write narratives demonstrating a complete thought and correct punctuation. The trick here is that they must use the words on five candy conversation hearts as part of...
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Language Arts Writing Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers practice writing open-ended questions about a specific topic. They use proper grammar and syntax in their questions that are typed into a word processing file. A rubric is included in this lesson plan to help with...
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Using Graphology to Teach Traditional Writing

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Introduce your class to the narrative, descriptive and expository forms of writing. In groups, they discuss the personality of the author while graphing the characteristics after reading different examples from the same writer. To end...
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Progressing Towards Graduation

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders write a paragraph about what they are going to do after graduating from high school. As a class, they share how they are going to meet their goals and discuss other options other than going to college. To end the lesson,...
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Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine the historical and cultural context in Sandburg's poem. The poetic devices of personification and apostrophe are utilized in the poem and identified by Students.
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The Lorax

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders, while working in groups, identify five sets of words that rhyme in order to write and illustrate a storybook using rhyming words through a journal entry. They assess proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation in their...
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Full Stops and Capital Letters

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students discover that a sentence is one complete thought. Students read worksheets and add periods (full stops) and capital letters in the correct places. They organize their stories into paragraphs. Students read aloud their...
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May Writing Ideas

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
From Cinco de Mayo to Endangered Species day to National Hamburger Month, May is full of ideas to write about. Give young writers prompts that have everything to do with the month of May. Topics include writing a story, conducting...
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STOP THAT SENTENCE

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students stop their sentences with the correct punctuation marks. They choose which punctuation mark is needed to write sentences in their journals.
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Ethnic Humor

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students define ethnicity and ethnic group in their own words. In groups, they view comic strips and identify how the strips relate to their family life. Individually, they write their own comic strip about their own ethnic group. To...
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Editing for AP (and Newspaper's) style

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners edit and revise a news story picked out by the teacher. For this editing lesson plan, students edit in AP style and then revise the story. It should have no errors in the end.
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Caterpillar, Caterpillar How Do You Grow?

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils work in small groups of three or four to create books based on the Eric Carle books studied. Topics may include tadpoles, guppies, people, moths, and plants. Media used may include Kid Pix, sound recordings, art pieces, sketches,...
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Writing A Thanksgiving Day Story

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write a Thanksgiving Day Story using some or all of the words included in the worksheet. These stories can be fiction or non-fiction (Personal Essays). They are graded on sentence structure, paragraph structure, grammar,...
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How Worldly Are You?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders locate and map six components to have a working knowledge of maps. For this map skills lesson, 6th graders define the six map components and work in groups to draw a map using the components. Students read a related story...
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Unnatural Selection

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars identify quotation marks and demonstrate the uses of quotation marks. They rewrite sentences without quotation marks and discuss how the meanings can change without the use of quotation marks. In addition, they make their...
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Questions From Answers

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners relate certain questions to certain types of answers. Students write suitable questions to given answers. Learners show ending a question with a question mark. Students recap on the main functions and punctuation of questions....

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