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Strengthen narrative writing with resources that build skills, foster creativity, and guide students through writing processes. Whether you need a writer's workshop, holiday or genre-based project, or activities to improve writing, you've come to the right place.

Solar Eclipse ELA Activities – Folktale Reading & Narrative Writing Project 2024

By Brenda Kovich

Informational text + literature + writing = fun solar eclipse ELA activities! Kids read science passages, compare folktales that explain the phenomenon, and do a narrative writing project. Open the preview to take a closer look. You can use this

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th

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Activities, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.4.9, RL.5.9, W.5.3, W.5.3a, W.5.3b, W.5.3c, W.5.3d, W.4.3a, W.4.3b, W.4.3c, W.4.3d

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Mystery Writing Projects: 3 Fun Prompts & Activities for 3rd, 4th, or 5th Grade

By Brenda Kovich

Looking for a fun mystery writing project? Choose from three prompts: puzzle pictures, paper bag story starters, or mapped detective stories. Your third, fourth, or fifth grade students will love these activities!Three fun projects are sequenced

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

W.3.3, W.3.4, W.3.5, W.4.3, W.4.4, W.4.5, W.5.3, W.5.4, W.5.5

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Fables – Narrative Writing Activity with Examples for 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade

By Brenda Kovich

Try fables for age-appropriate narrative writing! This five-part project (with two examples) teaches students to write stories using effective technique, clear event sequences, and dialogue between characters. Activities are perfect for kids in

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Google Apps, Lesson

CCSS:

W.3.3, W.3.4, W.3.5, W.4.3, W.4.4, W.4.5, W.5.3, W.5.4, W.5.5, L.3.2c, L.4.2b

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Writing Pourquoi Tales with Just So Stories as Mentor Texts - 4th & 5th Grade

By Brenda Kovich

Kids explore pourquoi tale mentor texts from Just So Stories. Rudyard Kipling’s lively style encourages kids to experiment with word choice, repetition, and voices of the narrator and characters. After studying his work, fourth or fifth grade

Subjects:

Gifted and Talented, Literature, Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

GATE, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

W.4.3, W.5.3

$6.00

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Halloween Narrative Writing Prompt - Activity for Third, Fourth, or Fifth Grade

By Brenda Kovich

Transform narrative writing with a little Halloween magic! Guided imagery and purposefully planned activities help kids gather descriptive details, build effective techniques, and clearly sequence events. Your third, fourth, and fifth grade students

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing, Halloween

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Printables, Google Apps, Lesson

CCSS:

W.3.3, W.3.4, W.3.5, W.4.3, W.4.4, W.4.5, W.5.3, W.5.4, W.5.5

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Narrative Writing Activities with Mentor Texts - The Wind in the Willows

By Brenda Kovich

Inspire your students' narrative writing with high quality, differentiated mentor texts. Six excerpts from The Wind in the Willows illustrate effective techniques. Students read, discuss, and then apply the strategies in their own stories. At the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Expository, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Unit Plans, Printables

CCSS:

W.4.3, W.5.3

$10.00

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Fables First! Beginning of the Year Narrative Writing Activity 3rd 4th 5th Grade

By Brenda Kovich

Fables provide the perfect format for teaching narrative writing processes. Kids identify story elements, select a moral, develop characters and plot. They also work on dialogue, word choice, transitions, good beginnings and endings. What a fabulous

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

W.3.3, W.4.3, W.5.3

$5.00

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Figurative Language Writing Activity: Similes and Metaphors Prompt/Project

By Brenda Kovich

Get kids writing with figurative language! In this creative prompt, students imagine their faces as pizza, galaxies, golf courses – or whatever. Then they write similes and/or metaphors to compare each of their features to a related object. The

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

W.3.4, W.3.5, W.4.4, W.4.5, W.5.4, W.5.5

$4.00

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Christmas Prompt & Activities to Improve Writing in 3rd, 4th & 5th Grade

By Brenda Kovich

Improve writing with a focused prompt and activities. Third, fourth, or fifth grade students revise a simple Christmas story using eight improvement suggestion cards: varying sentence beginnings, varying sentence types, varying sentence lengths,

Subjects:

Writing, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

W.3.5, W.4.5, W.5.5

$4.00

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Historical Fiction Writing Process Project: Narrative Prompt, Activities 4th 5th

By Brenda Kovich

Kids use a variety of writing processes for this historical fiction project. The prompt asks fourth and fifth grade students to research an event in history and weave a fictional character into the narrative. Open the preview to take a closer look

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Projects, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

W.4.3, W.5.3, W.5.3a, W.5.3b, W.5.3c, W.5.3d, W.4.3a, W.4.3b, W.4.3c, W.4.3d

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Cinderella Creative Writing Prompt - Fairy Tale Parody Project

By Brenda Kovich

Writing Cinderella stories ignites kids’ creativity! As they plan parodies, or fractured fairy tales, the project reinforces narrative strategies (e.g., development of characters and plot, dialogue, word choice, transitional words.) Open the preview

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Literature, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

W.3.3, W.4.3, W.5.3

$5.00

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Science Fiction Writing Project: Sci-Fi Narrative Prompt and Activities

By Brenda Kovich

Kids use writing processes to address a futuristic science fiction prompt. Activities involve them in development of setting, characters, and plot. They include dialogue and revise their narratives by varying sentences, improving word choice, and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Projects, Thematic Unit Plans, Activities

CCSS:

W.4.3, W.5.3, W.5.3a, W.5.3b, W.5.3c, W.5.3d, W.5.3e, W.4.3a, W.4.3b, W.4.3c, W.4.3d...

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Improve Narrative Writing – Practice Specific Strategies with a Passage

By Brenda Kovich

Improve narrative writing with focused activities and a passage. Third, fourth, or fifth grade students revise a simple story using eight strategy cards: varying sentence beginnings, varying sentence types, varying sentence lengths, choosing words

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Writing, Summer

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

CCSS:

W.3.5, W.4.5, W.5.5

$4.00

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Realistic Fiction Writing: Narrative Prompt, Project & Activities 4th 5th Grade

By Brenda Kovich

Kids use clear writing processes for realistic fiction stories. The project asks fourth and fifth grade students to focus on a goal or problem. They develop characters, setting, and plot. Support for writing dialogue, revising, and editing are also

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Projects, Unit Plans, Activities

CCSS:

W.4.3, W.5.3

$5.00

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Fantasy Writing Project Unit: Processes, Prompt & Activities for 4th & 5th Grade

By Brenda Kovich

Imaginations run wild with this fantasy writing project! Fourth and fifth grade students use writing processes to address a prompt. Activities involve them in development of characters, setting, and plot. They include dialogue and revise their

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Unit Plans, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

W.4.3, W.5.3

$5.00

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Fractured Fairy Tales: Prompt for Writing Humorous Fiction Stories 4th 5th Grade

By Brenda Kovich

Turn fairy tales into laughter-filled masterpieces! This prompt asks students to develop well-known literature with a parallel motif - and convert it into a fractured, humorous fiction story. Your fourth or fifth grade students will love this funny

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Projects, Unit Plans, Activities

CCSS:

W.4.3, W.5.3, W.5.3a, W.5.3b, W.5.3c, W.5.3d, W.5.3e, W.4.3a, W.4.3b, W.4.3c, W.4.3d...

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Time flies when you're having fun! I taught fourth grade for more than 35 years and loved it. Today, my mission is to create enjoyable, engaging materials your classroom.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I believe in student-centered learning that's seriously fun. In my store, you'll find engaging genre studies and hands-on science, as well as scaffolded ELA and math units that move kids to mastery.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

I'm proud to be a National Board Certified Teacher (Middle Childhood Generalist) and have received three special awards: Lilly Teacher Creativity Fellow, Crystal Apple Award Winner, and Lake Central Teacher of the Year.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I received a B.A. in Elementary Education, an M.S. in Elementary Education, a Gifted and Talented Endorsement - all from Purdue University.

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English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Algebra, Basic Operations, Fractions, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Science, Anatomy, Astronomy, Basic Principles, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Environment, Physics, Social Studies, Elections - Voting, U.S. History, World History, Arts & Music, Music, Computer Science, Drama, ESL-EFL-ELL, ELA Test Prep, Math Test Prep, Geography, Other (ELA), Gifted and Talented, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Statistics, Word Problems, General Science, Physical Science, Problem Solving, Criminal Justice - Law, Short Stories, Writing, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Halloween, Winter, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents' Day, Decimals, Black History Month, St. Patrick's Day, Spring, Place Value, Tools for Common Core, Earth Day, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, Test Preparation, End of Year, Engineering, Close Reading, Women's History Month, Classroom Community