LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - "Reeling in Readers With Magnetizing Hooks"

By - Connie Casserly

Grades 6-12

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Students must learn to reel in readers with alluring hooks that grab the readers' interest.  In this FREEBIE activity,  Reel in Readers With Magnetizing Hooks, teachers prepare mini-lessons on creating this most important writing element.

In my blog: http://teachitwrite.blogspot.com/2013/03/writing-right-reeling-in-readers.html  I detail ideas for how, when and why teachers should offer mini-lessons on writing alluring hooks. Types of Hooks and Choosing the Right Words - both with explanations and examples - are two of the topics that I address.

Five Types of Hooks

·         Anecdote

·         Description of person, place or object

·         Example

·         Stance on an issue

·         Startling fact or statement

·         Question

Choosing the Right Words

·         Strong concrete nouns and adjectives: help create clear mental pictures. They destroy

haziness, erase questions, and incite emotional responses. The use of sensory imagery

(sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing) lures readers. Every sentence should contain at

least one sensory imagery appeal.

·         Vivid verbs: Verbs are the backbone of writing. Without vivid verbs, writers’ words will

collapse. Verbs MUST combine the subject’s action plus his/her emotion while performing

this action.

Mini-Lesson Ideas

A. Warm-ups – Three lesson ideas

B. Write Now Moments – Two lesson ideas

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Isn't it time for a Write Now Moment in your classroom? 

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Spring Bouquet - an "Easy - art" Picking Flowers Craftivity

Language arts - Classroom - Visual Arts - Science -Home School

by Art Action - Laurie Carpenter

Grades 1st - 4th

This lesson plan will provide the elementary student with a fun spring-summer art, language arts, 
and science experience.  

Group research, discussion, and sharing of past experiences is a necessary part of this lesson.  

Research books are suggested to coordinate with the PRINTED PATTERNS, with basic lesson
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The perfect motivation, if possible, is a walk in the woods or back yard, picking flowers. If this is not possible, then observing flowers in the grocery store, or flower and science books will provide the research. 

In the lesson plan, I also suggest various stories that will set the "spring mood"; the best are ones that the students are able to help read out loud.  Group interaction always adds to involvement and motivation!

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FREE MISC. LESSON - “End of Year Reflections”

by Cecilia Magro I Love 1st Grade

1st - 5th Grade

This freebie is a great tool to use with your students so they can reflect and assess their learning this year. You could use it in one subject or each. There are two choices, one that includes applying their learning strategies to future learning. 

This product ties neatly to the CCSS which asks students to reflect on the way they learn.

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FREE CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG

BY ART ACTION- Laurie Carpenter

Language and Visual Arts

Grades 1-3

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This lesson will provide the primary age children with an experience in which art and literature work together. After hearing the teacher read the story of Clifford, the Big Red Dog, and discussing the story, the students will then enjoy a simple cut and paste project, using pre-cut pieces for this step-by-step "easy-art" lesson.

They will learn many basic art skills, have a chance to add creative details of their own, and of course have fun!

This project can be used in the art room, classroom, or as a home school activity. 

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FREE MISC. LESSON - “End of the Year Baggie Toppers {Freebie!}”

by Katie Jones

Pre-Kindergarten - 3rd Grade

With this product, you get 8 different baggie toppers. These are a great way to spruce up a baggie of treats for your students at the end of the year. 

All you have to do is print, cut the toppers out, fill up the baggies with treats of some sort, and staple the toppers on. 

The sayings included are:

Blow a kiss, silly fish!

Bye Bye, Butterfly!

Give a hug, Lady Bug!

Be sweet, Parakeet!

Take care, Polar Bear!

Out the Door, Dinosaur!

So Long, King Kong!

See you soon, Raccoon!

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"Art Action" Spring Swing - An Easy-Art Craftivity

Classroom, Visual Arts, Language Arts, Home School

by Art Action - Laurie Carpenter

Grades 3-5

This lesson plan, complete with patterns and detailed directions, provides the elementary teacher with detailed directions for a basic drawing experience, combined with a 3-dimensional craftivity.

Motivation comes from from reading a spring story - followed by a class discussion of spring activities.

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FREE MISC. LESSON - “Summer Gift Topper/Tag for Student End of Year Gifts {Smart Cookie}”

by Julie Faulkner

Pre-Kindergarten - 11th Grade

Looking for something easy and thoughtful to say farewell to your students at school, kids' church, club, or Sunday School class? This is a free, ready to print gift topper in pdf format!

I have a similar gift tag that I used as a teacher appreciation gift. It looks great printed and taped onto a Little Debbie cookie, or you could tie it to a bag of freshly-baked cookies!

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FREE "SPRING AND SUMMER THINGS" EASY-ART MONO-PRINT

Classroom -Visual Arts-Science-Language Arts


1st - 6th grades

by Art Action - Laurie Carpenter

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 This elementary art lesson plan provides the student with a fun, mono-printing experience related to the 

"growing and crawling" seasons of spring and summer. The project also acts as a science or classroom project as it relates to the environment.

The experience teaches the children a basic art skill of printing, as it exposes them to an understanding of the meaning of "symmetry" as it is applied to nature.

Quiet seat work time is provided, as the students are able to spend time researching in various reference books(science) or reading spring stories(language arts), as they acquire knowledge of the appearance of the items they wish to use in their mono-print visual arts experience. Children can sketch numerous items for several days in preparation - of course, keeping in mind that the object must be symmetrical and a front view, for it to work out in the fold over print.

The lesson plan gives suggestions for an enjoyable motivation, preparation, and presents  a detailed step by step procedure to be followed.

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FREE MISC. LESSON - “End of School Memory Book”

by Elementary Endeavors

Kindergarten - 2nd Grade

End of the school year memory book activity for K or 1st graders.

Print, cut in half, then staple each booklet.

Enjoy and have a fantastic summer!

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Language Arts Lesson Plan - Incredible Critique Forms and Rubrics: Twelve Individual and Group Writing Assessment Handouts

by Connie Casserly

Grades 6-12

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Summer vacation is a time to spend the majority of your time relaxing and restoring your energy- not planning. This 14-page listing, Incredible Critique Forms and Rubrics: Twelve Individual and Group Writing Assessment Handouts will guarantee that you spend more time tanning than planning.

Along with two full pages of Teacher Notes, it offers 12 printable handouts that students can use to analyze and critique their own writing as well as that of their peers. Teachers can choose which ones best fit their students' skills, abilities and needs.

Five of the handouts are

• Peer Critique Guide: Strong Fiction Requirements
• Fiction Analysis: Done or Not Done? That is the Question
• CREATIVE WRITING PEER CRITIQUE RUBRIC
• Analytic Writing Group Critique Form
• Self-Assessment Sheet: Writing

These lessons and activities have been effective with regular, Honors and A.P. English students as well as with SPED students in grades 7-12. The Self-Assessment Sheet: Writing and the Quarter Writing Progress Self-Assessment are great ways to help students accept ownership for their writing and the process that they choose to follow to complete their work. Not only will these activities enable them to strengthen their writing, but they will talk like writers, too.

If we want our students to develop confidence in themselves as writers, we must Show Them the characteristics and standards of strong writing, Help Them to see these strengths in their own writing as well as in others' words-authors they have never met and their peers- through critique sessions and then Let Them revise and develop their writing to reflect their understanding and skills.

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Enjoy your well-deserved summer vacation.

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FREE MISC. LESSON - “Free Graduation Clip Art from Charlotte’s Clips”

by Charlotte’s Clips

Pre-Kindergarten - 12th Grade

This Free Graduation clip art includes 7 items in black silhouettes.

Cap

Cap 2013

Diploma

Diploma 2013

Girl Graduate

Boy Graduate

Poster

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Nursery Rhymes - Artistic Language Visualization

Nursery Rhymes-Artistic Language Visualization

Language Arts-Visual Arts

by Art Action-Laurie Carpenter

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To teach the elementary student to transfer language arts and reading skills into an artistic accomplishment through "visualization". Many printable practice work sheets provide the experience and knowledge to create a final drawing composition. 2 full projects in one lesson plan price.  

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FREE MISC. LESSON - “SuperDad - Printables for Father’s Day {FREEBIE}”

by Christina Mauro

Pre-Kindergarten - 4th Grade

Super adorable printables for Father's Day!

There are black and white and color versions of the following pages:

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FREE MISC. LESSON - “My Year In...An End of Year Memory Book”

by The Primary Schoolhouse

1st - 3rd Grade

Help your students remember this year. This 9 page booklet will help them record their memories. Pages come with colorful borders or black and white.

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Unit Plan - A House is a Home for Everyone

Unit Plan and Activities – “A House is a Home for Everyone”

By: TheBeezyTeacher

Grades: Kindergarten, 1^st

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Tired of the same teaching themes and you want a change? After coming across the book A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman, I decided to do a unit on Homes (and Family) in lieu of The Gingerbread Man in December. The potential of the use of a “Home” theme is incredible and still reinforces remediation skills that some children still need. This is an important concept to me because of my own experiences of teaching so far away from family and home. A high degree of mobility is demanded of our students. Our children move around the world, acclimating themselves to new cultures, new friends, new homes and new surroundings. Therefore a home is such a precious concept.
In this unit you will find math and literacy activities, poetry, flip-flap book, an emergent reader and take home ideas for family projects. I hope you enjoy it!
Beezy!

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