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"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.

The taste of relevance: Students will learn the importance of selecting relevant details by picking the right toppings for an ice cream sundae. This activity gives the students a concrete visual memory of what good details are.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Caricature character tour: Students create a caricature of a literary character using magazine cutouts to practice reading for details and characterization.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts); By Janice Ianniello.

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.

Details and sequencing: In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.7; This lesson for grade six will introduce students to careers in environmental protection as it teaches them to identify details and sequence in a non-fiction reading passage.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance); By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.

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.

Analyzing significant events in Jim the Boy: This activity, to be completed after reading Tony Earley's Jim the Boy, helps students identify examples and details and then analyze them effectively. The class will brainstorm examples of life-changing events in Jim's life. The teacher will select one of the events, find the pages in the novel where it is discussed, and show the students how to annotate the text by marking details and commenting on them. Using a "T" chart, the class will then select three of the details to analyze.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts); By Vickie Smith.

Story surgery: As early as first grade, children can begin to revise their stories using "Story Surgery." In this lesson, students learn how to use scissors to perform "story surgery" by cutting their stories apart at the point where more information can be added.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Stretch it out: Good writers stretch out the important scenes in a story to make them more interesting to their readers. In this lesson, students will learn to stretch out a scene by adding things that they see, hear, think, and say to others.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Fall conference 2009: Information about LEARN NC's 2009 fall interactive conference, which took place October 1, 2009. Includes conference agenda, details for participants, handouts, and archived video.; Format: (multiple pages)

Slow motion replay: Students will learn to use slow motion replay of a moment in a narrative to make it easier for the reader to feel that he or she is actually experiencing the event.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Teaching voice: This lesson helps students to develop an effective voice by selecting words that are clear, concrete, and exact. Exercises are based on model sentences from world literature selections.; Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts); By Pamela Beal.

Lesson plans for teaching support and elaboration: A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching support and elaboration, the third of the five features of effective writing.; Format: bibliography/help

Comparing and contrasting Little Red Riding Hood stories: This lesson will introduce the Venn diagram to students. They will read two versions of the story "Little Red Riding Hood" and list details from each in separate diagrams.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts); By Amber Miller.

Futuristic airplane and the blind landing: A lesson plan, divided into two exercises, that teaches students techniques for communicating and observing both detail and directions using written, oral, and visual sources.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts); By Elaine Cox.

About the five features of effective writing: An explanation of the "Five Features of Effective Writing" model (focus, organization, support and elaboration, style, and conventions) with links to detailed articles, lesson plans, and exemplars of student writing.; Format: bibliography/help

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.

Asian action I: Character details: Students will use drawing and writing to study characters in Asian art, focusing on the potential stories hinted at by the many details depicted in the art examples. This lesson draws on the richly detailed and expressive human and animal characters depicted in the arts of Asia. Is there a reason why Durga has so many arms? What about Ganesha and that elephant head?; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education and Information Skills)

You can't tell it all!: Narrowing the focus of personal narratives: Students will learn to focus their personal narratives on just one main event by listing events on a topic and identifying one main event to write about. Focusing their personal narratives on one main event helps students to write about only the important things and leave out events and details that are not related to the main event.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Poetry from prose: A different kind of "book report": Students use a word-processing program to write a poem that summarizes important themes or events central to the plot of a novel. Once the poem is proofread, students type the poem according to specific directions. They then print their work and illustrate over or around the writing for an illustrated "book report." Students incorporate details from the novel in their writing and in their illustrations of their poems. In this way, students focus on the themes or events in the novel that appeal to them most -- the ones they feel are most important to the novel's meaning.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); By Sally Watts.

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