Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Planning a Fierce Wondering Story

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
After reading and discussing "Fierce Wondering" inspired by Ralph Fletcher's A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking the Writer within You, and a page from Amelia's Notebook by Marissa Moss, the teachers makes two class lists of interesting...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Show What Your Mind Sees

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This writing activity asks writers to make use of both showing and telling as they create a well-organized paragraph of description. After reviewing showing versus telling by building a writer's notebook page, each writer will show what...
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Curated OER

Page From Blais' Notebook Xiv, 1972 74, With Original Artwork, [Page 56]

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the cultural context of Canadian novelist Marie-Clair Blais' writing through fonds held by Library and Archives Canada. These fonds, which are "broken down into three distinct categories" (journals, manuscript notebooks, and...
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Curated OER

Watercolour Portrait of Marie Claire Blais by Mary Meigs

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the cultural context of Canadian novelist Marie-Clair Blais' writing through fonds held by Library and Archives Canada. These fonds, which are "broken down into three distinct categories" (journals, manuscript notebooks, and...