Merry Easter
Merry Easter? This activity is a fun way to incorporate holiday activities with age appropriate writing skills. The students create greeting cards to special persons for a special holiday.

What Happens Next? 
Students will sequence events and/or steps in a process using dramatizations, retelling, pictures, charts, and media.

Developing a Rubric and Making a Life List
This lesson comes from a unit on personal narratives.  Students will create rubrics noting what makes a good personal narrative.  Then they will do a pre-writing activity to help determine an event from their own lives that they would like to write about.
 

Silly Billy's Writing Project:  Writing is Exciting

Build Your Own Adventure Story:  This exercise will first give writers an adventure character's name, then asks them to choose a series of events that will make an interesting adventure and expand on them.

Suggestions for English Language Learners: 
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)

(E/B) Students sequence pictorial daily schedules.
(E/B) Teach chronological-order words.
(E/B) Read a descriptive text to students, then students rearrange a picture sequence to reflect the organization of the descriptive text.
(E/B) Rearrange sentence strips in a language-experience activity by placing them on a board or into an outline.
(E/B) Use a graphic organizer to show the relationship between main and supporting details, relevant and irrelevant details.
(D) Students write about their day using chronological order.
(D) Student use timelines.
(D) Students complete a story map.
(D, E) Students create story sequences with pictures or words depending on levels.
(D, E) Students work with partners to take notes on a particular reading and then outline the notes for understanding.
(E) Students organize a piece of writing using an order other than chronological order, such as order of importance, cause-effect.
(E) Students create a story map.

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