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Common Core: ELA
CCLS - ELA: W.4.3
- Category
- Writing
- Sub-Category
- Text Types and Purposes
- State Standard:
- Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
29 Results
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- In this unit, students apply the research they have completed (in Unit 2) about their expert animal and its defense mechanisms in order to write a narrative about their animal. Students will write a...
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- This lesson is largely dependent upon students having access to a computer, an online dictionary, and a printer.
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- In this assessment students have 45 minutes to plan and write Choice #2 of their choose-your-own-adventure animal defense mechanisms narratives based on the assessment prompt.
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- This lesson takes place in two parts, with Work Times A and B focusing on narrative conclusions and Work Times C and D focusing on transitional words. If you anticipate students needing additional...
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- This is the second of a sequence of three lessons focused on revising the choose-your-own-adventure narratives. Students again use colored pencils to make revision notes and revisions.
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- In this lesson, students record notes for their ideas for dialogue in Work Times A and B. In Work Time C and D, they add the dialogue using correct conventions.
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- For this lesson, students will need their draft narratives from the mid-unit assessment (Lesson 7). Be sure to make copies to evaluate the assessment before handing back students’ original drafts.
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- This assessment is broken into two parts, to help pace students. Both parts occur during this lesson. The first part is the planning of narrative introductions and the second part is the drafting of...
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- This lesson uses the terms introduction and beginning interchangeably. This is intentional. This will help students to make meaning of the academic vocabulary word introduction and become used to...
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- This lesson follows a similar flow to Lesson 4; students review the characteristics and organization of narratives and then plan their own narratives using the Narrative Planning graphic organizer....
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- In this lesson, students reread “Powerful Polly” and study it as a mentor text: as an example of a choose-your-own-adventure narrative that students can use as a model as they write their own...
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- In the opening of the lesson, students celebrate their hard work writing informative texts by sharing and reflecting in small groups on their informative page for the performance task (completed in...
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- This lesson assumes that students have some basic knowledge of the differences between fiction and nonfiction texts through additional literacy instruction that occurs alongside the module; this may...
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- In this eight-week module, students explore animal defense mechanisms. They build proficiency in writing an informative piece, examining the defense mechanisms of one specific animal about which they...
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- Writer’s Gallery and End of Unit 3 Assessment: On-Demand New Historical Fiction Narrative In this lesson students engage in a writers' celebration to share their performance task narratives and...
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- Publishing Historical Fiction Narratives In this lesson student use a computer to correct edits and add revisions as they publish their final narrative for their performance task.
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- Revising for Organization and Style: Exciting Endings In this lesson students learn to write a strong conclusion to their narrative by examining mentor texts, practice revising the wheelwright...
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- Revising for Organization and Style: Bold Beginnings In this lesson students learn to write a strong introduction to their narrative by examining mentor texts, practice revising the wheelwright...
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- Writing Dialogue: Revising Historical Narrative Drafts to Add Dialogue In this lesson students learn the conventions for writing dialogue and revise their narratives to add their planned dialogue...
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- Planning for When to Include Dialogue: Showing Characters’ Thoughts and Feelings In this lesson students examine mentor texts to learn how dialogue is used to show characters' thoughts and feelings...
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- Revising for Organization: Timely Transitions In this lesson students examine a model of the wheelwright narrative to learn about using transition words and then revise their own narratives to add...
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- Mid-Unit 3 Assessment: Drafting a Historical Fiction Narrative based on Expert Trades In this assessment student write a draft of a historical fiction narratives based on their planning in the...
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- Planning a Historical Fiction Narrative Based on Expert Trades In this lesson students plan their own historical fiction narratives based on their research about their selected colonial trade from...
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- Drafting a Historical Fiction Narrative: The Wheelwright In this lesson students continue their shared writing as a class to learn how to write a historical fiction narrative by drafting a narrative...