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Elementary creative writing unit plans for Microsoft Word
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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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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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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Hate That Cat Reading/Poetry Unit
This unit features Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech, a novel told in poems. It includes 15 lesson plans of 45 minutes each. Each lesson plan integrates reading Creech's story with writing poetry using techniques mentioned in the book. As Jack, the story's narrator, learns and writes about alliteration and onomatopoeia, children see examples of his writing and use it as a model for their own. The lesson plans contain references to other poems that can be used as "mentor texts" to children learn
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4th - 6th
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Personal Narrative Rubric used with Lucy Caulkin's Writing Program
This simple rubric can be used to assess students' personal narratives. It is organized to assess students' ideas, content, organization, and mechanics and has plenty of space for teacher comments. This was used with the Lucy Caulkin's Writing Program.
Personal Narrative Rubric by Kate Hartley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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3rd - 7th
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Inquiry Unit - Arts Ed - Drama, Dance, Writing, Music, Visual Art
In this inquiry unit, students will explore their special place that makes them feel the most relaxed. They will go through a process of imagination, writing, drawing and a final art project to show their creative expression.This unit can be adapted and used with any grade, however I have used it with grades 2 - 6 successfully.This unit follows the Saskatchewan curriculum, however it can be easily adapted to other provincial and state curriculums.The unit includes a rubric, which can be used to
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1st - 8th
Personal History Projects
This is a self paced project for students to consider their past, present, and future. Students can choose the activities they want that would represent themselves. This is a great beginning or end of the year project for students.
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5th - 12th
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2 Week Literacy Unit based on Where The Wild Things Are
2 Week unit plan based on the story Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. This unit plan integrates multiple areas of the UK national curriculum through engaging, thematic activities centered around "The Tiger Who Came to Tea," fostering creativity, literacy, and social skills in Year 1 and 2 students.
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1st - 3rd
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2 Week Literacy Unit based on The Tiger Who Came To Tea
2 Week unit plan based on the story The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr. Along with 2 weeks of English lessons, this unit plan integrates multiple areas of the UK national curriculum through engaging, thematic activities centered around "The Tiger Who Came to Tea," fostering creativity, literacy, and social skills in Year 1 and 2 students.
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1st - 3rd
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2 Week Unit based on The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark
2-week unit plan based on "The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark" by Jill Tomlinson, tailored for Year 1 and Year 2 students in the UK, aligned with the National Curriculum.Lesson suggestions and cross-curricular links.
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1st - 3rd
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Fantasy Genre Study for Writing Workshop
This is a ready-to-go unit with 20 days of lesson plans. In this writing workshop unit, students are introduced to fantasy writing through the use of mentor books you can check out from the library. Teacher modeling and peer sharing are also key components of this genre study. This unit is designed to last four to five weeks and culminates with published books.
In my classroom, writing workshop takes place Monday-Thursday for one hour each day. This hour begins with a minilesson, lasting appr
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3rd - 4th
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Writer's Workshop: Grade 3 Launch and Narrative Writing
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This contains 33 days of lesson plans and drafting paper.
Anchor charts and work examples to follow.
Grades:
3rd
Lucy Calkins Writer's Workshop Unit 3 Opinion 3rd Grade
A complete UNIT for Writer's Workshop Unit 3 Changing the World includes daily lesson plans, diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments. The unit lists all essential questions, enduring understandings, and CCSS. Students will review mentor text and form opinions which they will be able to write about. Students will form an opinion about something they feel strongly about and use evidence to persuade their reader to understand their opinion.
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3rd
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Fractured Fairy Tale Unit
Stories and non-fiction text are written from a particular point of view. The author positions the reader to respond to a story in a certain way through the use of language and point of view. Your assignment is to pick a familiar fairy tale and write a diary entry from the point of view of the antagonist.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Fairy Tale and Fable Unit
Fairy Tale and Fable Unit from Lessons by Natasha
This unit includes everything you need to walk right through the land of dreams! There are 12 lessons in the fairy tale section and 11 lessons in the fable section. This would work great for an instructional para or it could be used in a regular sized classroom as well.
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3rd - 6th
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Narrative Writing GRADE 5 Unit Plan & ALL 20 Lesson Plans
Narrative Writing Unit Plan Includes:Outline for Lessons for Immersion, Generating, Selecting, Drafting, Editing, Revising, Publishing, and ReflectingAssessment, Questioning, Multiple Entry Points, Ell/IEP Support, DOK Questioning, Vocabulary, Unit Goals and Skills. Narrative Writing Lesson PlansLessons 1-21: Lessons include: Teaching Points and Outcomes, Student Learning Target, Materials, Vocabulary, Connection and Closing, Questioning, Teach (I DO), Active Engagement (WE DO), Independent Pra
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5th
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Launching Writer's Workshop Unit for First Grade
Writer's Workshop is a fabulous way to differentiate your teaching, build a classroom community, engage and motivate even the most reluctant students and incorporate your Common Core ELA standards while creating lifelong writers! Sound perfect?
As a facilitator of Writer's Workshop staff development nation-wide, I know that one of the hardest things about implementing Writer's Workshop is finding the time to plan quality units that fit you and your students.
This first unit will help you 'lau
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1st
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Learning and Understanding Poetry Unit
This Unit Plan includes individual poems, activities, guided questions, and all needed information for a two week unit on the different types of poetry. The worksheets are included and can be blown up or edited if needed.
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2nd - 8th
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Poetry Portfolio, Poetry Unit End Project, Poetry Journal Collection, Rubric
I used the Poetry Portfolio Project to wrap up our poetry unit. The project challenges students to create a poetry portfolio including written poems, pictures that represent their written poems, research on the history of the poetry forms, a glossary of poetry terms, biographies of poets, and tips for writing poetry.
When I did this project with my class, I had them work in groups, and we used the class iPads and MacBooks. However, you can easily edit this word .doc to be an individual project
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Haunted House Real Estate Ads
A great Halloween Language Activity! It incorporates Writing, Reading, Media, and Technology all while keeping students motivated with a fun theme. Your class will look at text features and create their own real estate ad.
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5th - 6th
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Classroom Restaurant Simulation - Nutrition Lessons Unit
Students will learn how proper nutrition, exercise and rest are important to good health by setting up a classroom restaurant. The sixteen sessions in this unit contain lessons on different types of advertising, food safety rules, how to take your heart rate, analyzing food lables, understanding cooking terms, analyzing menus for nutritious offerings. Children will perform an original nutrition rap (included), write limericks, listen to speakers, learn proper table manners, serve and be served.
Grades:
1st - 5th
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Narrative writing - Common Core Aligned
This file covers the common core standards focusing on writing a narrative or short story. It also focuses on the reading standard requiring students to identify how a character or the setting can influence the plot development.
My file is for the 6th grade, but can be adapted to any grade from 6-9 using the common core.
This is a writing assignment for your students with guided step by step instructions aligned to the common core.
The assignment requires the students to find their own scen
Grades:
4th - 10th
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