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Showing not telling writing

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
How do good writers exhibit emotion in their work without using an emotion word (angry, sad, happy, etc.)? This plan offers learners model texts that describe an emotion without using an emotion word. A well-formatted writing activity is...
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Getting to Know You

For Teachers 4th
After going over the five steps of the writing process, pupils fill out "Getting to Know You" worksheets. They trade papers with each other, and have the task of writing a descriptive paragraph about the person whose worksheet they...
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Memoir

For Teachers 6th - 10th
After reading and analyzing two narrative memoirs, middle schoolers engage in a variety of activities, including writing an essay, developing a story map, and creating character charts. They then compare and contrast story maps, and...
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Synonyms

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Use this resource to help learners improve the quality of their writing. Discuss the importance of using synonyms for commonly used words. Class members also learn to use a thesaurus, and revise a writing sample to include more...
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Student Opinion: What Are You Afraid Of?

For Students 7th - 12th
A great resource for informational texts as well as writing topics, the New York Times website provides writing prompts about various news articles through The Learning Network. This particular worksheet provides a very short...
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Life in the Trenches: World War I

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Live the sights, routines, and daily life suffered by World War I trench soldiers. Through images and rich descriptive text, learners will gain an understanding of life during WWI. Slides describe the perils of war, such as insect and...
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The Roaring 20s

For Teachers 7th - 8th
America during the 1920s was quite an interesting place! Bring the jazz, poverty, consumer excess, culture, and politics to life with this presentation. Primary source images, excellent descriptive text, and a wide span of topics are...
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Dr. Seuss in the Classroom

For Teachers 6th Standards
Explore the works of Dr. Seuss, such as Horton Hears a Who, Horton Hatches and Egg, The Sneetches and Other Stories, The Lorax, The Butter Battle Book, and Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories. Each story lesson includes reading...
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Writing Goes Wild

For Teachers 4th Standards
Young scientists develop their observation and writing skills as they craft and then post a detailed description of a plant or animal they have spotted and photographed.
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Working on the Slant

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
Compare and contrast a major news story from various newspapers. How does the perspective change? Are certain things included in some of the stories and left out of others? Have pupils complete a graphic organizer to compare how...
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Sensory “Star Spangled Banner”

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Music can help us to access memories and events in a meaningful way, and Francis Scott Key used specific words to convey what he had seen and felt when writing what would become America's national anthem. Help your class connect to...
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Novelinks

The House on Mango Street: List-Group-Label

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Encourage close reading of the text and a focus on how Sandra Cisneros' develops her characters with an activity that asks teams to sort, group, and label character descriptions from The House on Mango Street.
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Reading Comprehension Unit Plan

For Teachers 8th Standards
A unit plan uses short texts to teach literary elements such as theme and characterization. Included are passages by authors such as Walter Dean Myers and Sandra Cisneros. Activities include quick writes, filling in graphic organizers,...
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Descriptive Writing

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a descriptive paragraph about themselves and use a PowerPoint template to add a picture. Students participate in a brainstorming session of descriptive words to use for their paragraph before beginning their assignment.
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Exposing Expository Text Structure in a Rainforest Setting

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars create a thematic booklet containing examples of different types of expository text structures. They explore a variety of expository text structures.
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Comparative Paper ­– Biblical Texts Pre-Draft Assignment 1

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this Biblical texts activity, students read and complete the narrative for the assignment that requires them to prepare topical outlines for papers on Kings and Chronicles, Legal Collections, and Prophecy.
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Newspaper Passive Texts

For Students 4th - 8th
In this passive texts worksheet, students read newspaper articles and put them into the passive form. Students put 4 articles into the passive form.
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Analyzing Nonfiction Text Features - Graphs

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine the text features of non-fiction. In this literacy lesson, students practice reading graphs and discover the authors intent for using them in primary and secondary sources.
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Recognizing Text Features of Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students start reading the book The Sign of the Beaver and create a book mark glossary to define vocabulary for the book. In this reading lesson plan, students also respond to the text by completing a journal entry.
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Using Illustrations to Deepen Understanding of Text

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
For this illustrations in text worksheet, studetnts view illustration in texts on specific pages and answer mutliple choice questions about them. Students complete 8 problems.
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Exploring Sensory Details in Fiction and Nonfiction Text

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders analyze storytelling devices by examining sensory details in literature. In this descriptive writing lesson, 2nd graders define the 5 senses and practice using descriptive vocabulary words in their writing. Students read...
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Text for Dictation: Transport

For Teachers 8th - 10th
For this dictation text worksheet, pupils take dictation on a selection using vocabulary associated with driving.  The text is geared towards those who are learning to drive and learning English.
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Comparative Paper – Biblical Texts

For Students 8th - 12th
In this Biblical texts worksheet, students read and complete the narrative for the assignment that requires them to prepare and write comparative papers on Kings and Chronicles, Legal Collections, and Prophecy.
Interactive
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Choosing Descriptive Words

For Students 4th - 5th
In this choosing descriptive words learning exercise, students select the word that best describes the noun that is shown in the picture, checks the answer online and continues to the next one.

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