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A PLAY ON WORDS Lesson PlanA PLAY ON WORDS Lesson Plan
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A PLAY ON WORDS

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After making predictions about Janell Cannon's story Verdi, middle schoolers read through the book and make a new list of descriptions, personality traits, etc. They select an animal and write a narrative story about the animal, paying attention to narrative techniques like pacing and dialogue.

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verdi, description, dialogue, narrative, pacing, english language arts

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