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Animal Action Words and Sentences (Pri.-Middle)
Book Title: Peck Slither and Slide Animal Action Words and Sentences (This might be used in conjunction with unit on animals.) Author: Suse MacDonald
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Bad Analogies (Middle & HS)
Bad Analogies--The Bad, The Good, and The Borrowed. This lesson should follow discussion and activities relating to literary terms.
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Bat News (Elem. & Middle)
Book Title: Stellaluna The outcome of this activity is a newspaper about bats.
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Create Your Own Saying (Pri. & Inter.)
"March comes in like a _______ and goes out like a ______."
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Ecphrastic Poetry (All)
Book Title: The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art Ecphrastic Poetry
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Exploring College (High School)
Exploring Post-Secondary Schools
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Fractured Fairy Tales (Elem. - HS)
Book Title: The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales Have students write their own "fractured" tales either individually or in small groups. These could be included in a class book or written out into script form and performed as plays.
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In 20 Years (High School)
After reading and discussing the short story, ask the students to picture themselves in twenty years and write about it.
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Live and Learn (All)
Book Title: Live and Learn and Pass It On This is a culminating activity for just about any topic or subject area you are teaching.
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Memory Box (Primary)
Book Title: Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge Students will then create their own "memory boxes," which could literally be boxes of things or drawings that represent the objects that trigger memories for them.
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Mr. Word Problem (All)
The students' task is to create their own word problem (story problem) using any math concepts they are comfortable with. Each student must be able to solve and describe the solution to the problem they create.
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Quilt of Life (Middle & HS)
This lesson was designed to add a writing component to a math/art enrichment class, where students worked with tessellations, quilt history and design, and sewing an actual quilt block.
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Super Sentences (All)
Students will add some life to the sentence-details, description, etc.-to help it become a "super sentence."
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The TRUTH (High School)
Students will select four books from their school careers or personal reading that have had an impact on them or helped them to form their TRUTH--wherever they are at the moment.
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Will you Please Feed our Cat? (Prim. & Inter.)
This writing activity connects with the trait of Ideas because it causes the students to focus on details. In addition, it encourages students to write a clear message that has enough information for someone else to be able to follow their directions.
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