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- Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide
- LEARN NC works collaboratively with educators and other individuals from a variety of backgrounds to develop web-based resources for teachers and students. This manual guides educators through the process of developing content for publication on the web, including writing, design, technical guidelines, and copyright.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Roundtable
- In this cooperative learning model, each team member writes one answer on a piece of paper that is passed around a table. Roundtable is highly effective with creative writing and brainstorming activities. This structure encourages responsibility for the group...
- By Heather Coffey.
- Creature creation: An elaboration writing activity
- This lesson will focus on the writing element of elaboration. It will also tap into higher order thinking skills with the creation of a Coastal Plain imaginary animal and a creative story about the creature. This lesson could be linked to 4th grade Science and Social Studies objectives. For more in-depth knowledge in those other subjects, go to the lesson entitled Researching the Coastal Plain
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Ana Sanders and Heather Ennis.
- Rethinking Reports
- Creative research-based assignments provide alternatives to the President Report, Animal Report, and Famous Person Report that ask students to think about old topics in new ways, work collaboratively, and develop products that support a variety of learning styles.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Habitat happenings (Lesson five)
- This is lesson five in the series. During this lesson students will put the things they have learned from previous lessons into a creative writing assignment. The students will choose an animal to be and will describe themselves and their living environment.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Kelly Stewart.
- A million fish... Serving up exaggeration
- Students will become familiar with the term "exaggeration" and how it can be used in stories to catch the reader's attention. Students will create narrative stories of their own using exaggeration.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By Jennie McGuire.
- Introduction: Rethinking reports
- A little creativity can make research a rewarding learning experience for students and teachers alike.
- By David Walbert and Melissa Thibault.
- Plantation life in the 1840s: A slave's description
- This lesson introduces students to a description of life on the plantation and the cultivation of cotton from the perspective of a slave. It focuses on the use of slave narratives made available by the Documenting the American South collection.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By John Schaefer and Victoria Schaefer.
- Paired writing: Hoover and FDR
- Taking on the persona of FDR and Hoover, students will write responses to citizens seeking help with real world problems.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Angie Panel Holthausen.
- Civil War Tribune
- This lesson focuses on student creativity along with the writing process. Art is also incorporated in a unique way. Students will use their research skills to complete a creative writing project on the Civil War.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Aimee Adkins.
- Hear it, spell it, see it!
- This is an activity to help children develop visual recognition of basic sight word vocabulary at the kindergarten level. The words covered are: I, am, can, like, it, and is. This is a simple, quick activity that adds a new dimension to sight word building with the help of the computer.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Vickie Hedrick.
- Civil War journals
- Integrates creative writing with social studies and enhances knowledge of the effects of the Civil War on people.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Gwen A. Jones.
- Leapin' leprechauns
- This lesson will allow first graders to use their imagination while practicing newly learned writing skills. The end product will be wonderfully creative leprechaun stories.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By JoAnn Lazaro.
- Writing workshops with Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Word's reviewing functions enhance communication as students revise drafts of their writing projects.
- By David Ansbacher.
- Seeing two poems
- This lesson will teach students how to actively read a poem and identify poetic devices.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)
- By Karyn A. Gloden.
- Australia
- Learn more about the history, cultures, and geography of the “land down under” with this sampling of great educational resources found on LEARN NC.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Oedipus the King: Personal letter-writing assignment
- Students will work in groups to evaluate the personality of various characters from Oedipus the King. Each student will write two personal letters in the role of one character from the play responding to the events of the play and the various relationships within it.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Greg Townsend.
- Animals on the move
- Students will choose an animal, draw the animal, write a sentence naming their animal and write a sentence about what their animal can do using inventive as well as conventional spelling.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- By Anita Baldwin, Ann Loftis, and Genevieve Kiser.
- Now what? A President considers a career change
- In Rethinking Reports, page 1.2
- In this alternative to the dreaded "President Report," students write a resumé for an ex-president.
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
- Feel in the blanks
- The following lesson is designed to function as a review of beginning, middle, and end and an introduction to individualized imagination, creativity, and perspective as it relates to the development of dialogue (i.e. improvisation).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Lei Knight.
