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Writing a Short Story - Complete Unit
Your students will have their short story story written and completed in 15 days! This unit includes activities, specific lesson plans and every thing you need to help your students. My kids were very successful during this unit and enjoy it every year. It's positively directed but fast paced.
How to Write a Short Story
Day 1: Background Survey & Getting Excited Activity
Day 2: Character Development
Day 3: Continue Character Development & Setting Development: Where, When and We
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4th - 10th
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Realistic Fiction Writing Unit
This realistic fiction writing unit includes the following lessons:
1) Making a writing goal and generating ideas for a realistic fiction story
2) Generating Ideas: Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Selecting a seed idea/story idea
4) Developing believable characters
5) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivations
6) Planning your story: Story Mountains, Story Booklets, and Timelines
7) Show, Don't Tell
8) Grammar: Punctuating Dialogue
9) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of your Story
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4th - 8th
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Mystery Writing Unit Plans
These mystery writing unit plans include the following minilessons:
1) What makes a good Mystery story?
2) Planning Problem/ Solution
3) Planning Clues
4) Planning Characters
5) Planning Setting
6) Planning story: plot beginning, middle, and end
7) Building Suspense
8) Using Mystery Planning Sheet to Help Organize Writing
9) Focusing on Characters
10) Character Personality and dialogue
11) How to Use and Punctuate Dialogue (Conventions)
12) Editing
13) Revising Reminders
This also includes t
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4th - 7th
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Humor and Comedy Writing Unit Plan
This is a 5-10 day humor writing unit plan for secondary English, college writing, or creative writing students. It’s meant to teach the theory and structure that go into humor writing along with plenty of practice activities.Humor writing takes a specific set of writing skills, and it can translate to a well-paying job for those who are especially good at it. Even students not destined for standup stages or sitcom writers’ rooms will benefit from studying the elements that make writing funny. T
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9th - 12th
Also included in:Â Laughing in Language Arts Class (English Lessons that Incorporate Humor)
Writer's Workshop - Informational Writing - 3rd grade Unit 2
Included are the daily lesson plans for Unit 2 of the 3rd grade Writer's Workshop that follow the Art of Informational Writing by Lucy Calkins and Colleen Cruz.
Also included are some ideas for anchor charts along with drafting paper and writing samples for the unit.
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3rd
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Writer's Notebook Organization & Writer's Workshop Starter Kit!
This starter kit will show you some great ideas for organizing Writer's Notebooks and some sample lessons to help you implement the Writer's Workshop model easily, as well as ready-to-print tabs and student instructions for getting it started. This has served my students very well and has helped organize our writing time; I hope you find it helpful too!
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Exploring Creative Nonfiction and Personal Narrative for 9th Grade
This unit follows a two week plan that explores the genre of creative nonfiction and personal narrative, through readings, discussion and writing assignments. It culminates with students writing their own personal narrative. Although it is set up to follow a two week schedule it can easily be augmented with additional readings and class activities.
The unit provides lecture notes, prompts and activities. Daily lessons center around elements of writing: tone, point of view, sensory detail, imager
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8th - 10th
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How to Write a Great College Admissions Essay - Works with Common Application
I have been teaching 11th graders to write a college admissions essay for the past ten years and this system really works! It's especially great if you have a wide variety of writing abilities within the same class.My favorite part of the packet is the "student" writing samples that help students understand what a finished product is going to look like. I've also included a brainstorming activity, an essay organizer, a rubric, and brief explanation of how to effectively use these materials.
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10th - 12th
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Poetry Project for High School Seniors
Seniors love this! I use this project for the last six weeks of the school year to help ward off senioritis. Students study various poets, watch a clip from DEAD POETS' SOCIETY for the "carpe diem" poem, listen to Loreena McKennitt's "The Lady of Shalott" as they study Tennyson, and watch the Simpsons' "Nightmare Cafeteria" to delve into satire and write their own satirical poem. These are just a few of the assignments included in the poetry project. I am amazed at the poems the students wri
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12th
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Fun Short Story Writing Assignment for Unmotivated High School Students
This short story writing unit has been very successful with classes of generally unmotivated eleventh- and twelfth-grade students. The length and complexity requirements are easily adjustable for differentiation or to fit your schedule.
This packet includes:
• Silly story starters that students construct by picking a subject, verb, object, and adverbial out of a hat. (Grammar reinforcement!)
• Instructions for leading students in prewriting.activities.
• Editable assignment sheet.
• Outline she
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10th - 12th
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Soundtrack of my Life Project
This is my FAVORITE project to do with middle schoolers. I have seen other adaptations of this, but this document is created by me with my own original ideas, sequence and rubric. In my 'Soundtrack of my Life' unit, we begin a 4 day course with an introduction where we listen to the song 'I Was Here' by Beyonce. I give students a sheet with the lyrics printed on them and ask students to, as we're listening, highlight/underline/circle/star one or more important verse that stands out to them. Afte
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5th - 12th
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Dead Poets' Society and Poetry Unit
This product contains materials for a poetry unit inspired by the film Dead Poets' Society. It includes the following things:
• A chart for the student to record pertinent information about when the poem was read or recited and by whom and why this particular poem was chosen for this particular event. This chart should be used as the springboard for a discussion of how these specific poems help reveal the theme of the movie.
• A copy of each poem for the students to annotate.
• AP style questio
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9th - 12th
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Editable Titanic Passenger Tickets!
These editable tickets will allow your students to explore what it was like on the titanic in first, second, and third class. This ticket allows you or your students to write in their name, their class, who they are accompanied by, their reason for traveling and any additional comments for their trip. It is perfect for literature and creating fictional characters to write about their journey or your students can research actual passengers from the Titanic and do a mini biography on the real pass
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3rd - 5th
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Teen Issues: Multigenre Research Project
This unit is designed to appeal to adolescents' inquiry into the social issues amongst them. Students select a relevant teen issue and create a five-piece research-based multigenre project. I include a structures unit plan with objectives; project requirements, ideas, and rubrics; handouts to guide them through the process of Internet-based research; and a post-assignment self-assessment for students to complete at the end of the unit. This was one of the most successful units at my diverse,
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8th - 12th
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Sample Personal Narratives (Exemplars)
There are 5 sample personal narratives to use as exemplars to help kids understand the features that go into writing a personal narrative! They are all in Microsoft word format so that they can be altered/edited as necessary to help you meet your teaching goals!
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3rd - 6th
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Build Your Own Elf
Super cute Christmas Elf Template Students use the templates to create and build their own one of kind Elf. No two will be the same. Get inspiration from all different head types, eyeballs, noses etc. Includes a sample elf that can be used as a colouring page for the kids. Once the Elves have been completed the kids can get creative and name their elves and even write a little story. A fun way to get creative, and maybe little bit excited about the holidays.
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Not Grade Specific
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Fourth Grade Common Core Writing Standards - Lessons & Prompts
These teacher friendly lessons explain step by step how to teach the new Common Core Writing Standards for 4th grade. Included are prompts, rubrics, & graphic organizers - all as printables that will allow you to use separately or together in a Progressive Writing Journal. The new narrative, informative/explanatory, and opinion/persuasive pieces are covered. Make the transition a snap! Caren Carlisle Schmitz, Masters in Reading Instruction
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4th
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Multi-Step Equations Storybook Project
This is a project that I look forward to every year. It's not often students get the opportunity to channel their creativity in math, so I try to fit in any opportunity that I can.
The Storybook Project requires students to think outside of the box, and metaphorically solve a multi-step equation. Students are challenged to personify the distributive property, combining like terms, as well as inverse operations and create a story that incorporates these mathematical procedures into its plot.
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6th - 9th
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Making Paper Mache Masks and Writing a Play:Arts Project with Rubrics
In this integrated arts project, students will make paper mache masks, write the script for and perform a play.
This project has three tasks.
Students first create paper mache masks. They turn these masks into the creatures of their choice - animals, monsters, aliens etc.
In groups of four, students use the characters from the masks to complete a creative writing task: Writing a play.
Students work together to write the script for a five minute play that incorporates all four of the chara
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6th - 9th
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Wit and Wisdom Grade 4 Module 2 Lesson 20-26 Narrative Planning Packet
This can be used as an additional resource to help your students plan and write for the Narrative Story in Wit and Wisdom's Grade 4 Module 2 Lessons 20-26. This packet includes:8 pages of graphic organizers, instructions, and writing spaceOption to customize as neededLesson 20- Use ESCAPE to help plan their narrative (graphic organizer)Lesson 21/22- Write 1st draft (writing space and instructions)Lesson 23- Plan 1st exploded moment (graphic organizer)Lesson 24- Write 1st exploded moment (writing
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4th
Third Grade Common Core Writing Standards - Lessons & Prompts
These teacher friendly lessons explain step by step how to teach the new Common Core Writing Standards for 3rd grade. Included are printable prompts, rubrics and graphic organizers that will allow you to reinforce concepts in a Progressive Writing Journal for the whole year. The new narrative, informative/explanatory and opinion/persuasive pieces are covered. Make the transition a snap! Caren Carlisle, Masters in Reading Instruction
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3rd
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Dystopian Society Project -- Create a Dystopia
This project is for use with a dystopian novel/literature unit. It asks students to create a dystopia of their own. Ultimately, they create four end-products: encyclopedia entry, creative story, promo/commercial, and presentation.
Students should have a good understanding of dystopias before assigning this project. It works well in conjunction with both literature and movies, such as The Hunger Games, Divergent, Fahrenheit 451, The Truman Show, etc.
This project covers multiple English Langu
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9th - 12th
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'Coraline' Film Study Booklet
This booklet includes film techniques such as sound, colour, lighting, costume, characterisation with images from the movie. This work booklet consolidates their knowledge of film techniques in a practical way. There is also an assessment at the end of the booklet whereby students become the director and are interviewed based on the cinematic choices (why they chose to represent things in certain ways).
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7th - 10th
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Victorian 'Pen Licence'
Use this as an incentive for students to complete work in neat cursive. This template can be edited with students name, photo & and school. Modeled off the Australian Victorian licence. Enjoy watching your students work hard to keep their work neat!
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3rd - 6th
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