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Five Minute Quickies

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Challenge your class to take just five minutes to complete the tasks in each slide. The end result will be a short story. Each text includes writing a certain element of a story: opener, ending, characters, and more. After completing each task, your class should put their stories together comprehensively.

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characters, transition words and phrases

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characters, connectives, story ending, story opener, time connectives, english language arts
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Grade
4th - 6th
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English Language Arts
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For Teacher Use
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13
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