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Primary History Extension Activity- Stories and Pastimes

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this Anglo-Saxon stories worksheet, students choose one or more of the 4 possible extension activities pertaining to the storytelling and pastimes of the Anglo-Saxon period.
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Primary History: Ancient Greeks

For Students 5th - 9th
For this ancient history worksheet, students examine the world of the ancient Greeks. They examine pictures of the Wooden Horse before making one with everyday items. They read about Odysseus and the characters in the story. They locate...
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Let's Create! Pottery HD

For Students 6th - 12th
Using a potter’s wheel to make functional art is an experience not common to most people. Provide your learners with a chance to see what pottery making is all about with an app that allows them to create pots, fire them, decorate them,...
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Pizza Pizza

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this parts of speech worksheet, students read a story about the history of pizza that has missing words. Following the directions to put in adjectives, nouns or other words, students complete the story so that it makes sense.
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Personal Narrative

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore personal stories by investigating narrative writing. In this nonfiction writing lesson, students participate in a workshop in which they write three events from their own life. Students write first drafts of these...
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From Book To The Big Screen

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students create a six-panel byobu (Japanese visual storytelling) based upon the book "To Kill A Mockingbird" in this lesson suitable for an early High School Language Arts or Social Studies classroom.
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Art & Drama for Middle Grades

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students define humor and consider how people have different senses of humor and therefore different ideas of what is funny. They explore improvisation, cartooning, comics, body language and storytelling as the means to express humor.
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Learning About Emotions

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars participate in a series of activities about identifying different feelings and emotions. In these oral language and discussion lessons, students use pictures and photographs to get them involved in oral storytelling...
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The Nature of the Antagonist

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils explain the differences between protagonists and antagonists and recognize the fundamental purpose of an antagonist or villain in storytelling. They also explain conflict as used in literature.
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Japanese Folktales

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students listen to examples of Japanese folktales and identify universal themes. Students construct a 'kamishibai' - a traditional Japanese storytelling prop - and dramatize a folktale through puppetry.
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Lessing meets Haring

For Teachers 2nd - 9th
Students create a challenging mural that functions as visual storytelling and encourages graffiti prevention. They examine the history of their town, pose questions about public art and view artwork by Keith Haring for inspiration.
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The Artist As Storyteller

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students practice the art of storytelling by examining scroll writing techniques of Asia and applying them to a monthly story of their own classroom. This instructional activity is in two parts (Part II continues throughout the school...
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Actors, Artists, Storytellers, and Poets

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders in groups select a human rights issues and create a presentation that examines it through art, storytelling, poetry, or acting. The instructional activity helps students use different modalities of learning. Student...
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From Memoir to Expository Writing with Advanced English Language Learners

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students create a memoir. They compare writing with story telling and personal experience. They analyze how they learn, so they can begin to look critically at their own learning.
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Cotton Ball Lamb

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students are encouraged to recognize animal and the sounds they make. They create a hands-on craft, story-telling and song. Students share each creation with their classmates.
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Comparative Folktales

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students analyze Mongolian and Native American folktales and compare the two types. They discuss the importance of storytelling in nomadic cultures and read a story in small groups. Following the story, they answer questions and...
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Literacy through Photography

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students photograph scenes from their lives and use the images to become a catalyst for related writing exercises. They explore the themes such as self portrait, family, community, visual storytelling, and dreams to encourage them to...
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The Beginning, The Middle, & The End

For Teachers K - 2nd
Cut magazine pictures into three sections, having your youngsters piece the pictures back together. With this fun activity, they discover the importance of sequencing a story. Then they use a fun template (shaped like a burger) to write...
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Revising/Editing (3-5): Editing Marks. Part II and Literary Tools. Part II

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Familiarize your class with commonly used editing marks. They apply the use of editing marks to a letter and examine different types of literary tools before making a note card resource for the tools. They add their own examples for each...
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Story Pyramids

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young writers generate descriptive words. They use pictures of various landscapes (from books, magazines, or the Internet) and complete a story pyramid. The pyramid (included here) asks to describe the main character, the setting, and...
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Editing Marks, Part 1

For Teachers K - 2nd
Dander from the show Twisted Whiskers and characters from My Little Pony are featured in this three part lesson plan that explores using story pyramids to scaffold ideas, adding sensory details to enrich writing, and editing using common...
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Making the Nightingale: Sing from "The Nightingale"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students appreciate the art of storytelling. They retell parts of the story with contemporary lyrics and/or poetry to demonstrate their understanding of the plot, characters, relationships, themes, and moral of the story.
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So What's New?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students write a story telling the news to someone who has not been around for three years.
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Japanese Folktales for Children

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students study Japanese folkart traditions and culture through storytelling, class discussions, and a creative project. The project involves students creating drawings of a pre-selected folktale and putting them together in a class book.

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