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- First draft/final draft
- Students will compare paragraphs with and without elaboration and descriptive details. They will learn how to revise their own writing by adding descriptive details such as adjectives, adverbs, concrete nouns, and precise verbs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Descriptive writing using landscape scenes
- This lesson focuses on the descriptive writing process through the use of landscape scenes, the Paragraph Writing Strategy from the University of Kansas Institute for Research in Learning, and the 4MAT Instructional Model.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–7 English Language Arts)
- Vocabulary surprise
- This lesson focuses on prediction skills and vocabulary development. Students predict what is in a box from information they are given. In order to determine the contents of the box, vocabulary must be deciphered through contextual meaning. The activity idea could be used in all areas with a few modifications. Science would be easily integrated. Cooperative learning is also used.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer J. Murphy.
- Composing snowman stories
- Students will compose sequential, descriptive instructions about how to build a snowman.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Sandra Weavil.
- Appositive action
- Appositives are descriptive phrases, set off by commas, that modify a noun or noun phrase. Using appositives helps writers create sentences that are smoother and less choppy. In this lesson, students will learn to combine 2 or more descriptive sentences and action sentences into one sentence with an appositive phrase.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Pumpkin punctuation
- Students will identify different end punctuation marks that are used in a book they read, and then use those punctuation marks in sentences they write.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Sherry Harris.
- Lesson plans for teaching conventions
- A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching conventions, the fifth of the five features of effective writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Search for synonyms: A thesaurus lesson
- Students will expand their vocabulary and learn the advantages of using a thesaurus. Students will edit and enrich personal writing samples using both print and online thesauri.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- By Erin Bradfeldt and Joan Milliken.
- "I Spy": Using adjectives and descriptive phrases
- Students will review definitions for adjectives, learn and practice sensory adjectives and imagery, and use adjectives and descriptive phrases in writing a paragraph and/or story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By Elizabeth Hutchens.
- Sentence carousel
- Adjectives, adverbs, and precise language help construct descriptive sentences. In this lesson, students will learn to construct more elaborate sentences that will enliven their writing
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- In the spirit of... (museum post-visit)
- This is an integrated unit that focuses on masks in cultures as reflections of individual spirits. In the post-visit lesson, students will create plaster masks and write a brief description.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education)
- By Tamela Davis.
- 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.
- Lesson plans for teaching style
- A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching style, the fourth of the five features of effective writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- "So what?" details
- Students will learn that adding details to a piece of writing doesn't make it better if the details are "So What?" details. Details and elaboration should be related to the main idea and should move the story along in an interesting manner.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- 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.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Tina Duckwall.
- Writing a fish book: Number and color details
- Students will learn and write color words and number words.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Stephanie Phelps.
- Making “Oobleck”
- The students will discuss what they think will happen when mixing specific ingredients to create an unknown substance labeled “Oobleck.” Next, the students will work together in small groups of four or five to create this substance. Finally, the students will individually illustrate and write one to three sentences describing the results.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Paige Hoffman.
- Organization
- In The five features of effective writing, page 3
- Organization, the second Feature of Effective Writing, should be addressed after a writer has established a focus and will help strengthen that focus.
- By Kathleen Cali.
- Jazzy sentences
- This is an interesting activity to help students jazz up or make their sentences more interesting by adding adjectives, adverbs, more vibrant verbs, and descriptive nouns.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By Helen Potts.
- "Luscious lollipops" and other adjectives
- The students will become familiar with adjectives by reading Ruth Heller's book Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book About Adjectives. They will also be able to use adjectives to describe an object in their own writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
- By Pat DeMello.
