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Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling: Writers' Workshop

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Young scholars draw on their understanding of different types of narratives to inspire and enrich their own storytelling. This is one of four storytelling lessons.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Tillbury Town Tales: A Butcher's Story

For Students 9th - 10th
A Writer's Workshop lesson in which students read E. A. Robinson's poem "Reuben Bright" and record five different interpretations in their notebooks. Any of these interpretations can be used later as an interesting piece of writing to...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Compare & Contrast as an Idea Springboard

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
In this Writers Workshop lesson, students read Frog and Toad stories by Arnold Lobel to learn about writing that compares and contrasts to things. This format can be used to write about many different topics in curricular areas and...
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Writing Fix: For Writer's Notebook: Heart Maps and Writing Topics

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
A heart map is a visual representation of a student's heart, displaying topics that "live" there; these topics are ones the student would show passion about and interest towards when writing about them. In writer's workshop students...
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Writing Fix: Puns and Punctuation

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A Writer's Workshop idea in which students learn to use and punctuate adverbs and specific dialogue to create puns called Tom Swifties. Teacher instructions, student instructions, and student writing samples are provided, as well as an...
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Writing Fix: Guilty or Innocent

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A writing lesson using the R.A.F.T. model and the short story "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst. Students take on the role of attorneys and write persuasive speeches for the jury proclaiming the narrator's guilt or innocence.

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