ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: She Did What? Revising for Connotation
Did she walk, skip, amble, dance? In this minilesson, students explore connotation by acting out and revising the simple sentence "She walked into the room."
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Self Teaching Unit: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
This lesson starts with the simple sentence and explains sentence parts, independent clauses, types of sentences, coordinating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs, and sentence errors (comma splices and fused sentences). Links to practice...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Story Starting Participles
In this lesson, Roni Schotter's picture book entitled The Boy Who Loved Words is used as the mentor text. This Language Arts Common Core Standards-aligned lesson pre-writing task engages students in writing a collection of ideas of story...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Is It?
Technology is incorporated into this "riddle" lesson as students select an image to capture using a digital camera. This is a fun lesson designed to introduce students to the use of digital cameras. After editing the picture, they...