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Build Your Own Adventure

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders write a narrative. They choose options for plot and climax within the context of an outdoor survival story.
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A Whale of a Tale

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students read "A Very Hungry Caterpillar" and discuss factual information in the book. They research whales and use information to write a narrative story. They take their stories through the writing process.
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Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Benjy's Sense of Time and Narrative Voice

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students analyze narrative voice in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. In this novel analysis instructional activity, students analyze Faulkner's writing style and the narrative voice of Benjy. Students create a reading journal...
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Narrative Tenses

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders review narrative tenses. In this narrative tenses lesson, 8th graders read a story, answer comprehension questions, and complete a worksheet. This lesson is designed for students who are learning English as a second...
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Write a Story 5

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students use the lined paper to create a story of around 600 words starting with the sentence "It's enormous!"
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Christmas Writing

For Students 3rd
In this Christmas worksheet, 3rd graders analyze the picture of Santa and his bag of toys. Students write a story about the Christmas picture on the lines provided underneath the picture.
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Test Your Creative Writing Skills

For Students 7th - 12th
In this creative writing worksheet, students use a picture to get a story idea, and then include a list of five things that must be found in the story.
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Kindergarten Writing: Narrative Prompt

For Teachers K
What is special about summer (fall, winter, or spring)? Using a bag filled with season-related items (for summer items like sunglasses, a swimming suit, etc.) the class take turns taking out one item. A discussion of how each item might...
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Petrified Forest National Park

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Poetry Soup, a reading and writing unit constructed by the Petrified Forest National Park, will have scholars hungry to learn about nature. The cross-content unit contains topics related to history, science, and language arts. Content...
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Author's Purpose

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Challenge your class to find the three purposes for writing. After they read three short passages, kids note whether the author's purpose was to inform, persuade, or entertain.
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Creative Writing: Haiku

For Teachers 8th
Haikus by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki are used as models for a brief lecture on the importance of poetry in Japan's history and the structure of this poetic form. Students then go on a nature walk, record impressions, and return to the...
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Running Out of Time: Letter to a Character

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Once your learners have a firm handle on the characters in Running Out of Time, invite them to write letters to chosen characters about the events of the novel. Pupils then share with others who wrote to the same character.
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Medieval Stationery

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Two different knights grace this stationery. There are lines provided for writing a story or summary and a box where pupils can mark down a title.
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Writing About a Christmas Day Celebration

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write about a Christmas Day Celebration they have experienced. In this personal narrative lesson, students use descriptive words to tell a story about their own family's Christmas. Students organize plot and develop the story as...
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Accentuate the Expositive: Unit 2 Expository Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers analyze narrative passages in order to improve their writing skills. In this narrative writing lesson plan students use the same style of writing that they have analyzed in their own narrative passage.
Writing
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Creative Writing Picture Prompt - Sea Shore

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this creative writing worksheet, students examine a black line picture of children playing at the sea shore. They write a story about the beach scene.
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Creative Writing Story

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this creative writing activity, students consider the stories they are writing as they respond to 6 short answer questions designed to help them shape their stories.
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.3

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teach your class the basics of narrative writing! The resource first describes the Common Core standard for narrative writing in-depth, and then moves into how to apply the standard. Show your class the example essay and quiz them...
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I'm a Changed Pig

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Introduce your class to fairy tales with this instructional activity. After reading the fractured fairy tale, "The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig," third, fourth, and fifth graders write a personal narrative as a response to the...
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Fifteen Seconds of Fame

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
A reading of Panic in Paris launches a review of the elements of narrative writing. Class members work in groups to find narrative devices in the book and record their findings on a provided worksheet. Using the completed pages,...
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Telling Stories in Art: Symbols of a Life

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Through a series of activities, learners are exposed to how artists use symbolic imagery to create the narrative of a subject’s life. They study The Birth of Alexander and some manuscripts kept at J. Paul Getty Museum. They then draft...
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Grade 12 ELA Module 1: Unit 1, Lesson 11

For Teachers 12th Standards
Chapter 10 of Malcolm X's Autobiography introduces readers to Elijah Muhammad's teachings. Discussion questions focusing on syntax and diction draw attention to how Malcolm X's perspective on Mr. Muhammad changes.
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Express Yourself Lesson Seed 5

For Teachers 6th Standards
Building on the previous activity in this series of lesson seeds, this plan focuses on the use of dialect in Theodore Taylor's novel, The Cay. Class members examine specific lines of text, use their reading journals to respond to the...
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Film English

Serial Taxi

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Explore the murder mystery genre through film, discussion, and writing. The plan features several activities centered around a two-minute video that include collaboration, writing, and prediction. After the lesson plan, individuals write...

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