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Bag Stories
Learners create a personal experience by writing and illustrating. They make a writing connection to family (or other thematic unit) and use descriptive words in writing. They write using a different perspective.
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Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters - Mapping the Story
Students listen to John Steptoe's story, "Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters" and create a story map.
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Dancing Rainbows: A Pueblo Boy's Story
Third graders identify the main ideas illustrated in the story "Dancing Rainbows." They identify details from the story that show respect toward self and others. Students write a paragraph to illustrate how the Tewa Indians show respect....
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Immigration: Marijana's Story
Second graders explore world geography by researching U.S. history. In this immigration lesson, 2nd graders read the book Marijana's Story and discuss the main character, her goals, and the plot. Students complete a worksheet about U.S....
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Tell Me A Foreign Language Story
Students practice retelling a simple story representative of the country where the target language is spoken: French, German, or Spanish. Given a worksheet with story details, students fill in missing details and rearrange details to...
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Adventure Stories
Young scholars write an adventure story that contains a title, as many sentences as possible, and a conclusion. On the peer and teacher assessment sheets, the number of sentences required are left blank so that the teacher may determine...
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Pizzazz!...Chain Stories
Students compose a short story working with partners. They create a beginning, middle, and an ending. Students brainstorm with their partners and create a creative short story.
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Lead Stories about Confederation Lesson 5
Students identify what a lead story is and how to write one, for their simulated newspaper, about Confederation. They use primary-source documents from the "EvidenceWeb" portion of the Learning Centre, on the Library and Archives Canada...
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Story Books
Students discuss a narrative work of art, then write stories describing the action and publish their stories and illustrations in books.
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Connecting Families through Folk Stories and Fairy Tales
Students engage their families to write down a folk story from their primary language. In this family literacy lesson plan, students rewrite the story or fairy tales in English. Parents and students are invited to present the stories in...
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Animal Story: An Informational Narrative
Students use the computer to research information and publish creative narrative stories about the life of a specific Everglades animal. This instructional activity uses many educational, computer programs including the iLife suite,...
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My Story, Our Stories (Rights and Freedoms)
Students research the Canadian rights and freedoms and express one of their freedoms by sharing a story about their family
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City People, City Stories
Learners create fictional inhabitants to scale for a place called 'Box City'. They develop stories and personalities to go with the created people, share the stories with the class and write a newspaper for their city.
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The Power of Our Stories
Students compare violence to nonviolence. in this peace lesson, students tell stories from their own life that show the difference between violence and nonviolence. They listen to examples of Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
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Humpty Dumpty: The Whole Story
Fifth graders analyze a nursery rhyme to explore the writing process. In this writing process lesson plan, 5th graders recite Humpty Dumpty and chart the plot of the story. Students select their own nursery rhyme and write a creative...
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My Hiding Place
In this writing worksheet, students read a story starter that asks if they have a special hiding place. Students write the story and illustrate it.
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Paul Gauguin
In this language arts instructional activity, students read a story starter, write a story and illustrate it. The topic is where students would like to live if they could live anywhere.
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The Story of Milk
Students listen while the teacher reads the background information. They discuss the main points of the reading. Students color, cut out pictures, and glue the pictures above appropriate sentences to illustrate the correct sequence in...
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War Stories
Students watch the film "The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color". Using the film, they work together to develop proper interview questions to use while talking to World War II veterns. After the interview, they research...
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My Shadow
In this writing instructional activity, students read a story starter which asks them to recall a time they saw their shadow. Students write the story and illustrate it.
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My Pretend Friend
For this writing worksheet, learners read a story starter which asks them to tell about a real or pretend friend. Learners write the story and illustrate it.
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Who Has Seen the Wind?
In this writing learning exercise, students read a story starter which asks them how they know if the wind is passing by. Students write the story and illustrate it.
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If I Could Touch the Sky
In this writing worksheet, learners read a story starter which asks them who they would give the stars to (if they could) and why. Students write the story and illustrate it.
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Students' Stories of Arkansas
Eighth graders create their own Arkansas story books based upon their families' oral histories.