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Bubble Gum Letters: A Persuasive Writing Activity

Students brainstorm ideas and then write convincing letters to the principal to try to get permission for a “Bubble Gum” science project.

Re-Enacting Procedures: Building the Foundation for Procedural Writing

Re-enacting a procedure is a great way to help students understand effective procedural writing.

Writing Poems

Lynn Reichle and her second-grade students go on a writing adventure called the Writers’ Workshop.

Greedy Cat: Retelling a Story Sequence to Build Comprehension

Students build skills essential to reading comprehension by retelling a story. Visit LitDiet.org to view to view the full lesson plan.

Five Senses Graphic Organizer: A Planning Strategy for Descriptive Writing

Students use their five senses and a graphic organizer to brainstorm ideas for writing a report on a recent school event and to think about interesting words to include in their report.

3 Different Ways to Combine Sentences | Combining Sentences

This video from Breaking English goes over three different ways to combine sentences using common connectors and conjunctions.

Show NOT Tell Using Your 5 Senses

Kimberly Yonke models Show NOT Tell using the five senses.

Starring Details: Helping Writers Revise by Adding Details

Discussing different strategies to revise written work and modeling how to add detail to the middle of a piece of writing helps students develop writing fluency to ease the process of composition.