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- Action chains
- Students learn to elaborate on an event in a narrative by expanding their sentences into action chains. Expanding single actions into an action chain provides the reader with a more detailed picture of an event in a narrative.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Awesome action words
- Good writers use precise verbs to make stories interesting and vivid. In this lesson, students will learn to replace boring, redundant, generic verbs with more precise “Awesome Action Words.”
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Let's become chefs!
- The following is designed to teach students the characteristics of a recipe. The characteristics to be taught about this genre are: the step-by-step directions, ingredient words and numerical measures.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By Sarah Ann Parker.
- Plain Polly: Adding relevant details
- This instructional technique creates a lasting visual image of how relevant details help develop a character and a focus. Students learn to add only details that are related to the main idea of a “Plain Polly” stick figure. These mascots serve as reminders to students to be selective with the details they use to support their main idea.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Rest in peace, dead words!
- “Dead words,” by my definition, are words students “use to death” in their writing samples. As Language Arts teachers, we can generate a list of such words a mile long. Examples would include: pretty, nice, bad, a lot, and good. This cooperative learning activity is designed to eliminate those repetitious words by providing students with a word bank/wall they can refer to when given a writing assignment.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)
- By Cynthia Cook.
