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4th grade short stories projects
Writing Fractured Fairy Tales (LapBook & Graphic Organizers)
Fractured fairy tales take the traditional fairy tales that you know and change them. Elements such as the characters, setting, point of view or plot might be changed.What is included in this resource?Graphic Organizers:* Prewriting brainstorming (2 worksheets)* Planning Story Elements* Planning Story Sequence* Comparing Stories*** An informational sheet about fractured fairy tales is also included.Mini-LapBook:Students will select a traditional fairy tale and write a new fractured version of
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3rd - 4th
Personal Narrative Writing Unit for 4th and 5th Grade | Full Lesson Plans
This is a "no prep" personal narrative unit, meaning that all of the organizers and teacher models are included. Print out the pages you need, and you're all set to teach your students how to write great narratives! This complete unit can be used on its own, or in addition to your Writing Interactive Notebooks! It's great for teaching your class about personal narrative writing! Common Core Standard Aligned - preview for the alignment guide. Works great with other standards!Click "preview" to se
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4th - 5th
Creative Narrative Writing Unit Grades 4-5 | Prompt, Graphic Organizers, Rubric
This is a "no prep" unit, meaning that all of the organizers and teacher models are included. Print out the pages you need, and you're all set to teach your students how to write incredible creative narratives! This complete unit can be used on its own, or in addition to your Writing Interactive Notebooks! It's great for teaching your class about creative narrative writing! Common Core Standard Aligned - preview for the alignment guide. Works great with other standards!Click "preview" to see a l
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4th - 5th
Paper Bag Book Report Project - Novel Study Templates - Reading Comprehension
Paper Bag Book Report: Fun Book Report Project for ANY Novel or Short Story - This package is perfect for your upcoming novel study unit or short story unit, as it provides students with everything they need to create a Paper Bag Book Report on ANY novel or short story! All activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts, information sheets, detailed instructions, and templates! Two separate Paper Bag Book Report packages have been included: one for use with ANY novel, and one tha
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3rd - 6th
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The Hero's Journey | Movie Analysis | Short Story Writing | Activities
This Hero's Journey activity package contains a variety of activities relating to the Hero's Journey as explained by Joseph Campbell. For this activity, students practice their Hero's Journey analysis skills by viewing a heroic movie of your choice (a variety of examples are included), and using the included worksheets to discuss how each stage of the Hero's Journey can be seen. Students then use an included template to illustrate and write their own short stories, following the stages of the
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Middle School ELA Emergency Sub Plans - No Prep English Sub Plans - May
Tacky the Penguin Craft | Helen Lester
Here is a fun and easy craft to go with the book Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester. You and your students will love the end results!
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PreK - 5th
Comparing Myths & Legends Writing - Greek Myth Medusa & Iroquois No-Faced Doll
Your students will love this reading and writing assignment that compares the Greek Myth of Medusa with the Iroquois or Haudenosaunee legend, The No-Faced Doll”. While Greek Mythology and Native American legends may seem like two very different genres, with little to no similarities, think again! This project asks students to compare myths and legends from two very different cultures, finding both the similarities and differences. Through this common core linked project, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Paired Texts: Comparing Myths & Legends from Across Cultures
Writing Realistic Fiction Stories Independent Writing Project Grades 4-6
In this independent writing project, students will: -draft, revise, and edit a realistic fiction story -develop a main character -develop a simple plot -integrate sensory images into the story for setting -use dialogue that moves the story forward -write and illustrate a final copy for an audienceTeacher Notes:Although this is an independent writing project, you will will need to teach and model the elements of a realistic fiction story. Included in this packet: -student instructions -grading ru
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4th - 6th
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Personal Narratives Made Easy!
*INCLUDES BONUS PACK
This download helps students understand and create personal narratives. It includes:
~introduction to personal narratives
~example personal narrative
~blank personal narrative templates
~personal narrative checklist
The Bonus Pack will allow your students to create books about their families, which include personal narratives. It includes:
~graphic organizer
~blank book page templates
~a complete sample book
*available in a discounted Writing Made Easy bundle!*
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1st - 6th
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Printable & Digital "My Name Story" Writing Project
Using "Alma and How She Got Her Name" as a mentor text, this product contains the resources you need to to help your students tell the stories of their names. This project provides your students an opportunity to share a little bit about their family and culture with the class – such an important step in creating a positive, welcoming classroom environment! Turn your final drafts into a class book that can live in your classroom forever, and you allow your students to see themselves in your clas
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2nd - 4th
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Writing a Reader's Theater Script Project
This project guides students through the process of writing and performing a Reader's Theater scene, based on a short story. The materials can be used with any fiction text, so it can be differentiated for leveled small groups or adapted for any grade level!
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1. Three different graphic organizers for students to record information about the setting, characters, and plot of their text. (These really helped my students focus on the important details from the story that needed to be i
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2nd - 8th
Halloween Writing Pack
This Halloween Writing Unit was designed to create a full month of writing for your classroom. Simply make a copy of each of these pages, staple together (with the cover page provided) and students can work all month on creative, fun, and meaningful writing for the whole month of October.This Writing pack contains two parts – 4 Halloween Writing Assignments and 5 October themed journal pages. Each of the 4 Halloween Writing Assignments have a brainstorm page. These pages have directions for each
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K - 6th
Narrative Writing: BUNDLE
Narrative Writing: BUNDLEUse these no prep graphic organizers to guide your students through the narrative writing process while centering their writing around the elements of a particular genre. These work great as a culminating writing project and are easily differentiated for a variety of student needs and abilities.This Bundle currently includes these packs:Narrative Writing: Create a Fairy TaleNarrative Writing: Create a Super HeroNarrative Writing: Create a Mystery StoryNarrative Writing:
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2nd - 5th
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My Sneaky Snowman's Adventure Narrative Writing Unit | Writing & Art Project
Narrative writing doesn’t have to be limited to just a plain old paragraph! Teach your students how to draft, write, and edit a narrative paragraph AND engage them with an art project at the same time. My Sneaky Snowman’s Adventure is a narrative writing unit and art project that’s just perfect for the winter season! Not only will your students produce a narrative paragraph, but they will flex their creativity and produce a Sneaky Snowman Diorama and Sneaky Snowman flipbook! What You Get In Th
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2nd - 4th
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The Mysteries of Harris Burdick creative writing example (Just Dessert)
Chris Van Allsburg’s book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick is an excellent medium to teach creative writing. The titled illustrations are accompanied with only the slightest bit of text. A mere suggestion as to what already has happened and might happen. Every turn of the page introduces a unique vignette, an intriguing picture that arouses curiosity that tugs at the imagination, thus sparking new ideas to fill in the blanks. The entire book is a collection of writing prompts! The tantalizing st
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Design Your Own Comic Strips: A STEAM Activity
Design Your Own Comic Strips: A STEAM ActivityWriting doesn't have to be boring! Let your kids' creativity go wild with these comic strips. The possibilities are endless- use these comic strips to: • Show steps in a process • Explain conceptual understanding • Retell a story • Illustrate a narrative or non-fiction writing piece • Practice target vocabulary words in context • Practice writing dialogue • Help second language learners explain their thinking • Make learning fun! Three sam
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PreK - 12th
Also included in: 3 Activity STEAM Bundle
Snapshots of My Summer
This is a FUN and EASY back-to school project that looks fantastic as a Back-to-School bulletin board and also serves as a quick assessment of your new students’ writing ability!
Students will illustrate and write a brief description about something they did during the summer. Multiple graphic organizers are included so you can help your students organize their thoughts beforehand.
Included in this product: 3 graphic organizers (for various grade-levels), 1 camera cover page (for students to d
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PreK - 6th
There's A Wocket in my Pocket! printables
When you download this product, you are on your way to make your very own class book!! This book will be a companion to Dr. Seuss' "There's A Wocket in my Pocket!". This is such a fun story! My students always LOVE getting to write their own book about different creatures that they create, in our classroom! A title page has already been created for you, just add your name! "There is a Zassboom in our Classroom!" will soon be one of your student's favorite books to read! Have each student make th
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PreK - 4th
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Crime Scene Investigation: An Inferencing Writing Prompt for grades 3, 4 and 5
In this activity, students will make inferences and draw conclusions by analyzing the evidence of a crime scene. Students will record their observations and cite their evidence for the conclusions they draw. Perfect for grades three, four, and five.With this download, you will receive instructions and student materials to host your own crime scene investigation. This is a great way to boost student engagement and get students writing! Print out the student detective journal, set up a small crime
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Language Arts: Writing & Inferencing Halloween Activities Bundle
Memoir Writing Project- Sharing My Shorts - Distance Learning
Memoir WritingDigital Version NOW INCLUDED! Everyone loves to get more bang for their buck and that's exactly what you get with Sharing My Shorts!With this year long writing project you will get to know your students as people and as writers. Sharing My Shorts can be a long term project spanning the entire school year or a short term project spanning a few weeks. The project consists of 8 prompts to choose from. Each prompt encourages students to share moments in their lives by writing "short"
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3rd - 6th
3rd, 4th, or 5th Grade Narrative Writing Unit
Are you looking for an engaging way to teach Narrative Writing? Are you not sure how to teach the Common Core standards for Narrative Writing? These Narrative Writing mini-lessons will guide you and your students through the entire writing process from Researching to Publishing.This resource includes BOTH printable and Google Drive documents. This will work for you if you are Distance Learning, Face-to-Face, or Hybrid.Students will write a story of their choice. They will draft, revise, edit, a
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3rd - 5th
Reader's Theater Script Writing 101
Included within this packet you will find everything necessary to implement basic script creation in your classroom. There are several kid-friendly graphic organizers for organizing thoughts around PLOT and Beginning-Middle-End Summarizing, a Types of Sentences chart that includes a practice worksheet, and basic teacher plans for a 6 day reader's theater unit. Rubrics are included for both script creation and presentation. This unit is meant to be versatile, and should be adapted to meet the nee
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2nd - 5th
Writing a Folktale
This packet is perfect for having a 2nd, 3rd or 4th grader create their own folktale. it includes graphic organizers of all of the important elements in a folktale and is easy to follow. It does not include a rubric, as I feel that each teacher needs to decide which elements are most omportant to focus on.
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2nd - 5th
Digital Complete Guide to Personal Narrative Writing Gr 4-5 (Google Classroom)
This digital resource is the Google Classroom version of my "no prep" units, meaning that all of the digital organizers and teacher models are included. Share the student pages in Google Classroom, and you're all set to teach your students how to write incredible personal narratives! Common Core Standard AlignedWorks great with other standards!Which parts of the writing process does this resource cover? Each lesson comes with a teacher model that teachers can use to show their students what they
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4th - 5th
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