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- What's the Point? A Lesson on Point of View
- After reading Good Dog, Carl by Alexandra Day students will write the story from a chosen character's point of view. This lesson can be used with other wordless picture books.
- Author: Eileen Carter and Tracey Casto
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
- "Write On!!!" --"Hooking the Reader"
- Students will recognize new and innovative ways to write a narrative by discovering various ways to "hook" the reader with catchy beginnings and using figurative language and writing components to write an interesting story.
- Author: Tina Duckwall
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–4)
- Alliteration all around
- In this lesson, students are introduced to alliteration through picture books by Pamela Duncan Edwards.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Buzz! Whiz! Bang! Using comic books to teach onomatopoeia
- This lesson uses comic strips to introduce students to onomatopoeia, words that imitate the natural sound associated with an action or an object.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Can you haiku?
- Students learn the rules and conventions of haiku, study examples by Japanese masters, and create haiku of their own.
- Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Readers theatre
- Students develop scripts, perform in groups, and practice using their voice to depict characters from texts.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 2–5)
- Writing a movie: Summarizing and rereading a film script
- Students view a film segment that has a great deal of action and little or no dialogue. After viewing the segment, students write a descriptive summary of the scene.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 4–5)
- Writing Poetry Like Pros
- This set of 4 lesson plans from EDSITEment utilizes poetry to serve as the inspiration for some terrific writing. Using poems available through EDSITEment resources, educators can make poetry an exciting teaching and learning tool in the classroom.
- Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)