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Common Core W.4.3 resources for Easel and for Gifted and Talented

Writing Pourquoi Tales with Just So Stories as Mentor Texts - 4th & 5th Grade

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Kids explore pourquoi tale mentor texts from Just So Stories. Rudyard Kipling’s lively style encourages kids to experiment with word choice, repetition, and voices of the narrator and characters. After studying his work, fourth or fifth grade students plan and write their own. Open the preview to take a closer look at the writing project. First, kids read “How the Camel Got His Humps” and work on story elements.The class discusses elements of literature: characters with goals, obstacles, steps t

Subjects:

Gifted and Talented, Literature, Writing

Grades:

4th - 5th

Types:

GATE, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

W.4.3

, W.5.3

Also included in: Just So Stories ELA Unit for Fourth Grade – Reading and Writing Pourquoi Tales

Descriptive Writing - Butterflies, Birds, Bees

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The Gifted Writer

21 printable writing prompts: a bird on the ground, a dammed pond, a fallen tree, a butterfly on a flower, a dragonfly on a leaf, a grasshopper on a stem, a honeybee on a flower, a duck on a rock, a butterfly on a flower, a ladybug on a leaf, a creek, a lizard on woody litter, a rabbit on a trail, a mountain goat on a rock, turtles on a fallen tree, two damselflies on a stem, a butterfly on a flower, a hummingbird on a twig, a bench off a trail, a squirrel eating a nut, a honeybee on a flower.

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Environment, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Printables, Independent Work Packet

CCSS:

W.2.2

, W.2.3

, W.3.2

, W.3.3

, W.4.2