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31. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Once They're Hooked, Reel Them In: Writing Good Endings
    It's important to "hook" readers at a story's beginning, but it's equally important to keep them interested. In this lesson, students learn to write effective conclusions to their own stories.
    
32. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Once Upon a Time Rethought: Writing Fractured Fairy Tales
    Students read and analyze fairy tales, identifying their common elements. They then write their own "fractured" fairy tales by changing one of the literary elements found in the original.
33. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Our Classroom: Writing an Owner's Manual
    Students write an owner's manual that helps them get to know their classroom, provides them with a sense of ownership, and lets others know about their classroom.
34. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Peer Edit With Perfection: Effective Strategies
    Students take a fresh look at the revision process and help one another polish their written work through a peer-editing strategy that is simple, systematic, and constructive.
35. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Playing with Prepositions through Poetry
    Students play with and explore prepositions during a whole group reading of Ruth Heller's Behind the Mask, and then by composing and publishing prepositional poems based on the book's style.
36. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Poetry from Prose
    Working in small groups, students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.
37. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Powerful Writing: Description in Creating Monster Trading Cards
    Students create their own monster trading cards using "powerful," vivid language to describe their creatures.
38. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Prompting Revision through Modeling and Written Conversations
    Students create a checklist outlining what effective writers do, revise his or her own writing, and engage in a written conversation to help peers with the revision process.
39. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Q is for Duck: Using Alphabet Books With Struggling Writers
    A is for zoo? Q is for duck? The alphabet as students know it is transformed when students create a class book that contains clever associations for each letter of the alphabet.
40. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Reading, Writing, Haiku Hiking! A Class Book of Picturesque Poems
    Students learn haiku
    write descriptive poems
    and share with the class.
    

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