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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Who/what/when/where: Desert Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, Brooke Bessesen's picture book, Look Who Lives in the Desert!: Bouncing and Pouncing, Hiding and Gliding, Sleeping and Creeping, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Who/what/when/where: Mall Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this activity, Eileen Christelow's picture book, Five Little Monkeys Go Shopping, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the mentor text, students will use click the buttons with the...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Who/what/when/where: Recess Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, Hooway for Wodney Watby, written by Helen Lester, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the mentor text, learners will use click the buttons with the words "Who", "What",...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Who/what/when/where: Sports Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
For this lesson, Hoops, written by Robert Burleigh, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the mentor text, students will use click the buttons with the words "Who", "What", "When", and...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Who/what/when/where: Circus Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, Dr. Seuss' book, If I Ran the Zoo, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After reading the mentor text, students will use click the buttons with the words "Who", "What", "When", and...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Writing Lesson: Season Mandala

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan, young scholars will learn about the season through decriptive words and phrases incorporated in two different books, Have You Seen Trees? by Joanne Oppenheim and The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree by Gail Gibbons....
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you are a teacher OR a student looking for a well-informed website on elements of the writing process, you are in luck! This site from the Capital Community College is very comprehensive and easy-to-navigate. From grammar basics to...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Who's at the Door? Use Images to Find Out!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Students will use words acquired through reading to describe images (with adjectives) that demonstrate an understanding of characters in a story. The teacher will read Miss Nelson is Back which has great descriptors and will hold a class...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Rain Drop Shape Poem

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan uses the mentor text by Wendy Cheyette Lewison entitled Raindrop, Plop! This lesson, which has a focus on word choice, engages students in brainstorming descriptive words and phrases about raindrops. At the end of the...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Using Language Effectively

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on using language effectively in your speech including using clear words and phrases, defining key terms, writing descriptively, using vivid language, considering your style and tone, and determining and addressing...
Interactive
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Airplane Flight Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this lesson, Robert Burleigh's picture book entitled Flight is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Creepy Crawly Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, the picture book entitled Toad, written by Ruth Brown, is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Racetrack Sentences

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this activity, The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race, written by Stan Berenstain, is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Action Packed Rain Forest Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Jane Yolen's Welcome to the Greenhouse is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite verbs from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use interactive...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Action Packed Ocean Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Andrew Clement's awesome picture book, Big Al is used as a mentor text. Learners will record their favorite verbs from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Action Packed Zoo Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, If I Ran the Zoo, written by Dr. Seuss, is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Camping Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
For this lesson, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson. When I Go Camping with Grandma, a book by Marion Dane Bauer, is used as the mentor text of this lesson. Students will...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Who/what/where/when Game: Wild Weather Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson. Brave Irene, written by William Steig, is used as the mentor text of this lesson. Students will develop sentences with...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Tail Acrostic Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this instructional activity, Spring: An Alphabet Acrostic by Steven Schnur Mentor, Silver Seeds by Paul Paolilli, and Henry & The Kite Dragon by Bruce Edward Hall are used as mentor texts. Students will practice their acrostic...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Color Personification Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
For this lesson, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, a book written by Mary O'Neill and Red Sings, and From Treetops: a Year in Colors, a book by Joyce Sidman, are used as mentor texts. Students will brainstorm to collect different adjectives,...
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Harold D. Underdown

Derailed by Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A helpful site for writers which gives the proper perspective in assessing the detail involved in your writing. Provides examples of how to include exciting, relevant details when writing fiction.
Handout
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Modifier

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a modifier in the context of a sentence.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Playing With Prepositions Through Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play with and explore prepositions during a whole group reading of Ruth Heller's Behind the Mask, and then by composing and publishing prepositional poems based on the book's style.
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Follow Directions and Draw

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
In this lesson plan students will practice and understand the importance of giving and listening to clear and concise directions. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above.

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