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- Lesson Plans
- Famous Bears
Early Childhood, K-2
Bears lead the way in this activity that encourages children to compare and contrast story characters and events.
- Life-Size Characters
3-5, 6-8
Create visual representation of characters to bring lessons on character analysis to life. Source: Awesome Hands-on Activities for Teaching Literary Elements
- Reporting the News
3-5
Become a “reporter” for the World-Wide Gazette and learn about the Titanic. Based on White Star: A Dog on the Titanic by Marty Crisp.
- Unit Plan: All About Me & the School Experience
K-2
Read how one teacher kicks off the school year by making individual books entitled, " Goes to School" which will depict the classroom's school experience.
- Unit Plan: Laurence Yep’s Dragonwings
6-8
Make connections between a text read independently and prior knowledge, other texts, and the world.
- Unit Plan: Real-World Conflict Resolution
6-8
Read a story about Abd al-Rahmen Ibrahima, complete graphic organizers, and discuss conflict resolution.
- Unit Plan: Responding to Literature — Character Analysis
6-8
Children use graphic organizers and charts to analyze a character, then create a "Character T-Shirt."
- Unit Plan: Welcome to Success
3-5
This literature-rich unit will ignite a discussion about the necessary traits for a year of success. Members of a learning community demonstrate many traits of success while fostering those traits in others.
- Unit Plan: Writing Autobiographies
6-8
Show children that they are the experts when it comes to the genre of autobiographical writing.
- Using Monologue and Dialogue
3-5, 6-8
Use picture books to teach character to children by looking at interior monologue and dialogue. (PDF) Source: Teaching Writing With Picture Books as Models
- Write a Class Book Review on a Paulette Bourgeois Story
K-2, 3-5,
Invite your class to share what they think about their favorite Paulette Bourgeois stories.
- Online Activities Teacher Guides
- Myths, Folktales and Fairytales Teacher's Guide
A great resource for learning about writing in these genres.
- Writing With Writers Teacher's Guide
Teacher's guide for the Writing with Writers workshops.
- Reproducibles
- "A New Dog"
6-8
Read this story about a new dog and figure out details of the characters.
- "Close Encounters"
6-8
Practice paraphrasing with a story of a canoe trip.
- "Jaboti Plays His Flute"
K-2
Use this folktale of Jaboti the Turtle to learn about plot.
- "John Henry"
3-5, 6-8
Put on this play about John Henry, the famous steel-driving man who beat the steam drill. (PDF)
- "The Lookout Mountain Tunnel"
3-5
A story of two boys accepting a dangerous dare helps students practice drawing conclusions.
- Active Beginnings
3-5, 6-8
These easy reproducibles with mini-lessons help kids write wonderful dialogue, dazzling descriptions, and more. (PDF) Source: Super Story-Writing Strategies & Activities
- Comparing Characters
3-5
A Venn diagram helps students to compare and contrast character traits and make literary connections. (PDF) Source: The Big Book of Reproducible Graphic Organizers
- Developing a Main Character
3-5, 6-8
A handy chart helps kids develop a character for a story. (PDF) Source: Teaching Literary Elements with Short Stories
- Fiction: Description
K-2, 3-5
Children create characters and learn to write more descriptively.
- Get Ready to Write
K-2
Work with a partner to retell a rhyme or poem in a new way.
- Meet You at the Movies
6-8
Plan a film based on the writings of Edgar Allen Poe. (PDF)
- Story Board
K-2, 3-5
This graphic organizer helps students to arrange events in chronological order. (PDF) Source: The Big Book of Reproducible Graphic Organizers
- Unforgettable Settings
3-5, 6-8
Use these reproducibles to help you teach setting. (PDF) Source: Teaching Story Writing
- What a Character!
3-5, 6-8
Help children develop characters and allow them to assess their own writing. (PDF) Source: 40 Rubrics and Checklists to Assess Reading and Writing
- Wonder Woman!
3-5, 6-8
Choose one of three formats to write about heroes and heroines.
- Writing Humorous Fiction Setting Exercise
3-5, 6-8
Use these reproducibles to help plan setting, write a draft, and run a conference to edit it. (PDF) Source: Teaching Genre: Humorous Fiction
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