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The Paragraph

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Review the components of a well-written paragraph with your class. Be sure your writers include a topic sentence supported with main ideas and followed by a conclusion. Unity, coherence, and transition words are emphasized. Experiment...
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Nationhood

Telling Stories: Narratives of Nationhood

For Teachers 3rd
Three lessons make up a unit on the birth of Canada. Learners in the third grade will analyze famous works of art, research historical events, and discuss the role women played in the early development of Canada. Writing, history, and...
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Folktale Writing

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Review literary analysis techniques with this reading lesson about folktale writing. Middle schoolers read different folktales from many authors, and write their own folktales to share with the class. They identify the plot, morals and...
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Schools Linking Network & Lifeworlds Learning

How Do We All Live Together?

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Explore the concepts of community and point of view with these activities complementing the children's book Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne. Following a class reading of the story, ask students to either draw a map of the...
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Writing and Revising Our Texts: Using Peer Critique to Improve First Drafts

For Teachers 5th Standards
Mail me a postcard. Individuals design a postcard to show what Meg Lowman from The Most Beautiful Roof in the World might have written to her friends at home. They then continue to work on writing a science journal entry.
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Build Your Dream Science Lab

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Would your ideal science lab be filled with bubbling beakers and zapping Tesla coils? Or would it contain state-of-the-art computer technology and data analysis? Dream big with an innovative lesson that connects math and language...
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Leprechaun's Pot of Gold Writing Prompt

For Students 1st - 3rd
Everyone wants to find the gold at the end of a rainbow. What would your learners do with their newfound riches? This prompt asks just that and provides the space for individuals to explain their plans.
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Ant-Man Saves the Day

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Provide Ant-Man with a flying device to aid in fighting crime. The first installment of a five-part unit has learners designing and building a flying device for Ant-Man. They write a narrative essay describing the engineering process...
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The Pearl: Problematic Situation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Is money the root of all evil, or the answer to everyone's dreams? Analyze the role of money in John Steinbeck's The Pearl with a writing prompt where kids imagine that they have won the lottery, and must think about the ways it will...
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A Picture's Worth 500-700 Words: Neoclassical Painting Analysis and Creative Write

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students survey Neoclassical art and create a narrative based on their analyses. Focused questions and relevant background information provided by the Getty Museum provides a great foundation for students to understand art techniques as...
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Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice word processing skills while writing Haiku and diamonte poems.  In this poetry computer activity, students choose  from a group of rainforest animals and write about their animal.  Students write a...
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Photography Narratives

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students write a narrative corresponding to a photo. They create a background story based on the person in their picture and share it with the class.
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Write a Story 5

For Students 4th - 6th
In this creative writing worksheet, students put their language skills to use as they write a 600 word story that begins with the sentence, "It's enormous!"
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Creative Writing Skills: Write a Story 3

For Students 4th - 7th
In this writing prompt instructional activity, students use their creative writing skills to write a story based on the picture shown that includes the 4 specific events and people listed.
Writing
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Writing Prompt: Grown Up

For Students 4th - 5th
In this creative writing worksheet, students read a prompt and write a 3 page story based on the prompt. The prompt instructs students to consider the situation of waking up one morning as a grown up. Students must write about their day...
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Test Your Creative Writing Skills

For Students 4th - 6th
In this creative writing worksheet, students use the given picture to write a creative story. Students use the details provided about the character and setting of the story and incorporate them into their writing.
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Write a Story Based on the Picture

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this creative writing worksheet, students look at a picture and write a creative story based on what they imagine is happening.
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Picture This

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Elementary writers practice writing descriptive paragraphs by adding adjectives and sensory words to their writing. They use a picture of a monster for their descriptive paragraph. This 12-page lesson should increase your charges...
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Hide and Seek

For Students K - 2nd
For this language arts worksheet, learners write a story using an illustrated word bank with nouns, adjectives, and verbs.
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Coins In Space! (Creative Writing)

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students practice creative writing. They write an imaginative story in which quarters escape from the space shuttle and ends up in the hands of an alien. Students brainstorm ideas, write a draft, revise, and edit their composition.
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Making Poetry Writing Fun!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students find a group of words from an unlikely source and turn them into a poem. They discuss the central image in two well-known poems by Langston Hughes and Emily Dickinson. They write their own short poem expressing one central...
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Colonial Writing Project

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders write from the perspective of a child in the colonial period. In this writing lesson, 4th graders create a fictional character living in the colonial period and write about daily life from their perspective.
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Writing a Storybook

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars explore language arts by creating their own stories in class. In this book making instructional activity, students read the story City Pig in class and create storyboard illustrations in order to analyze the story. Young...
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Narrative Writing Outline

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the elements of a narrative for its purpose, type of audience, mood, main character, minor characters, setting, and conflicts in the story. A story outline is developed and a five paragraph essay composed in this...

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