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End of the Year Photo Writing Project ActivityEnd of the Year Photo Writing Project Activity
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2nd - 5th
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English Language Arts
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End of the Year Photo Writing Project

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Close out the school year with a look back at a specific event. You provide individuals with photos of themselves, and each pupil fills out the graphic organizer here to prepare for writing a paragraph about the memory depicted in the given image.

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Concepts

the 5 w's, photo stories, memories, reflective writing

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Support emerging writers by providing sentence frames or starters for each prompt in the graphic organizer
  • Invite pupils to get really creative with decorating their final posters
  • Hold a gallery walk after learners have completed their paragraph posters

Classroom Considerations

  • This is the preparation portion of the project; you will need to oversee transferring the graphic organizer into a paragraph and putting everything together into a poster
  • In order for this to work, you will need to have taken photos of students throughout the school year

Pros

  • The included graphic organizer is visually appealing and has enough space to write in
  • Also comes with teacher instructions and a template that kids can color and glue their photo to

Cons

  • There is a minor typo in the directions for the graphic organizer

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