In this mini lesson plan, teachers use Mem Fox’s Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge and Vera William’s A Chair for My Mother to explore satisfying endings. They look closely at how writers signal readers that the story is over without ending too abruptly.
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In this mini lesson plan, teachers use Naomi Shihab Nye’s book Sitti’s Secrets to investigate voice and how to capture it using descriptive language.
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This mini lesson plan uses Jane Yolen’s Owl Moon to explore how writers make decisions of where to place beautiful language to create a smooth and rich sound.
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This mini lesson plan guides teachers and students through the process of recalling ideas by having conversations about life events that have evoked emotional responses. Through talk, students create long lists of potential ideas for writing memoir.
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This mini lesson plan is designed to demonstrate intentional and purposeful use of the word “and” in writing using Cynthia Rylant’s The Relatives Came.
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In this mini lesson plan for the unit of study memoir, teachers are shown how to help children find and develop ideas that will lead to great memoirs of their own.
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In this lesson children look closely at the way in which authors use colons to create dramatic effect in a piece of writing and make attempts to identify places in their own writing where this convention can be used effectively.
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This lesson plan shows children how to use those lists to guide their thinking and writing of their “All About Me” books.
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In this mini lesson plan, teachers use Marla Frazee’s book Roller Coaster to investigate what parenthesis are and how writers use them to give readers the inside information they need to care about characters that writers create.
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In this mini lesson plan, teachers use Cynthia Rylant’s When I Was Young in the Mountains to show students how a repetitive phrase can be used to segment ideas and move smoothly from one idea to the next.
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This mini lesson plan uses Jerry Spinelli’s Knots in My Yo-yo String to demonstrate how beginnings can tap the senses to create hooks that keep readers interested. Building on this important idea, students go on to practice using this technique in their
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In this mini lesson plan, teachers use a selection from Lois Lowry’s Looking Back to investigate the voice present when Lowry uses small snippets of conversation.
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In this mini lesson plan, teachers use Julie Brinckloe’s Fireflies to demonstrate and locate powerful verbs that convey a vivid picture for the intended audience.
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This mini lesson plan helps define focus by investigating how author’s like Tomie dePaola, Ralph Fletcher, and Patricia Polacco create vivid stories by exercising great discipline in developing their stories around one central idea.
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This lesson plan has children compare how they used to be to how they are now.
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This lesson plan walks students through the process of brainstorming different memories associated with the many emotions they have experienced.
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This unit of study is designed using the workshop approach to teaching writing. It contains a collection of seventeen unique mini lessons that address each of the six traits of writing.
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This lesson plan helps writers identify important moments in time with other people.
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This mini lesson plan focuses on using specific nouns as a conduit to more interesting, vivid writing.
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In this mini lesson plan, teachers use Donald Crews’ book Shortcut to investigate sentence fluency as they practice combining short sentences with long sentences to produce smooth, interesting text.
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This lesson plan teaches children how to find their focus and helps them to identify what’s really important when sharing their memoirs.
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