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Description as mind control: Using details to help readers visualize your story
Good writers help their readers visualize their stories by including vivid details. Students will listen to passages from Gary Paulsen's novel Hatchet, draw one of the images from the passage, and identify which details Paulsen uses to create these images.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
By DPI Writing Strategies.
Focusing activity to begin novel: Hatchet by Paulsen
Students will visualize how Brian Robeson will feel when he crash lands on the deserted island at the beginning of the novel, Hatchet. This whole class period will be spent using prior knowledge of survival skills.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts)
By Robin Simmons.