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"Knot" the Whole Truth: Writing a Modern-Day Story with a Tall Tale's Voice Lesson Plan"Knot" the Whole Truth: Writing a Modern-Day Story with a Tall Tale's Voice Lesson Plan
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Beyond Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, tall tales can be a great way to teach young writers about word choice and voice in their writing. Using Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Magee  and the Six-Trait Writing process, they begin to write their own modern-day tall tales placing emphasis on exaggeration, metaphors, and similes. The lesson plan includes all necessary worksheets and resource links.

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word choice, diction, metaphors, figurative language, literary devices, similes, tall tales, folktales, maniac magee, jerry spinelli, hyperbole, literature, voice, children's literature, pecos bill

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Narrative Writing, exaggeration, jerry spinelli, maniac magee, metaphors, pecos bill, similes, tall tales, voice, word choice, stephen kellogg, literature, english language arts
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5th - 9th
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English Language Arts
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