Don't Forget to Write for the Elementary Grades
50 Enthralling and Effective Writing Lessons (Ages 5 to 12)
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Don't Forget to Write for the Elementary Grades
50 Enthralling and Effective Writing Lessons (Ages 5 to 12)
About This Book
Creative strategies for getting young students excited about writing
Don't Forget to Write for the Elementary Grades offers 50 creative writing lesson plans from the imaginative and highly acclaimed 826 National writing labs. Created as a resource to reach all students (even those most resistant to creative writing), the lessons range from goofy fun (like "The Other Toy Story: Make Your Toys Come to Life") to practical, from sports to science, music to mysteries. These lessons are written by experts, and favorite novelists, actors, and other celebrities pitched in too. Lessons are linked to the Common Core State Standards.
- A treasure trove of proven, field-tested lessons to teach writing skills
- Inventive and unique lessons will appeal to even the most difficult-to-reach students
- 826 National has locations in eight cities: San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Seattle, Boston, and Washington DC
826 National is a nonprofit organization, founded by Dave Eggers, and committed to supporting teachers, publishing student work, and offering services for English language learners.
Frequently asked questions
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- How perfect is your character? And what is the one flaw that might bring him or her down?
- How perfect is this character's life? And what is the one thing that's missing?
- What is that idea?
- And how is he or she going to make it work?
- How will your character's flaw get in the way?
- How will things get worse, and worse, and worse, and worse?
- How will he or she get so close to his or her dreamāonly to lose everything?
- Who will he or she fall in love with?
- Why will that cause problems?
- What kind of power does he or she want?
- Who or what will stand in his or her way?
- What will he or she have to do to get rich?
- How will that cause a problem?
- Whom does he or she want to be friends with?
- What does he or she have to do to win that friendship?
- How will that cause problems?
Table of contents
- Cover
- How to Use This Book
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- The Authors
- The Contributors
- Chapter 1: Tragic Love Tales (by 6-Year-Olds)
- Chapter 2: Writing for Pets
- Chapter 3: Fort Party!
- Chapter 4: Make-Believe Science
- Chapter 5: Oh, You Shouldn't Have, Really ā¦: (or, How to Write a Jon Scieszka Picture Book)
- Chapter 6: Space Exploration for Beginners: What to Do When You Meet an Alien
- Chapter 7: Magic Realism
- Chapter 8: Recycled Elves: Fairy Tale Do-Overs
- Chapter 9: Creating a Guide to Modern Girlhood
- Chapter 10: How to Write a How-To
- Chapter 11: Talking Trash!
- Chapter 12: Why Did the Chicken Cross the Lesson Plan?: Writing Jokes and Riddles
- Chapter 13: Spy School
- Chapter 14: Literary Mash-Ups
- Chapter 15: Brain Spelunking
- Chapter 16: PJ Party
- Chapter 17: Any Which Way: Choosing Your Own Adventure
- Chapter 18: Life-Size Board Game!
- Chapter 19: BRAINS! or, Writing with Zombies
- Chapter 20: How to Write a Comic
- Chapter 21: The Meaning of Life (The Short Answer): Writing Big, Large, and Small!
- Chapter 22: How to Survive Anything
- Chapter 23: Vindicated Villains
- Chapter 24: Ono-mato-WHAT-now?
- Chapter 25: All-Star Sports Stories
- Chapter 26: I Wrote a Guidebook and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Travel Writing
- Chapter 27: Cooking for Cryptids: The Definitive Cryptozoological Cookbook
- Chapter 28: Science Club: Ice Cream!
- Chapter 29: Sticky Words
- Chapter 30: Maddening Mad Libs
- Chapter 31: If I Were a King or Queen: Creating Your Own Country
- Chapter 32: How to Be a Detective
- Chapter 33: Harry Potter Spider-Man vs. the Evil Zombie Ninjas
- Chapter 34: Out There: Drawing and Writing New Worlds: An Interdisciplinary Art and Writing Lesson
- Chapter 35: Whining Effectively; or, How to Persuade Your Parents
- Chapter 36: For the Birds!
- Chapter 37: There's Poetry in an Atom: Writing Creatively About Science
- Chapter 38: Guerrilla Poetry
- Chapter 39: Frankenfilms
- Chapter 40: The Rules of Magic
- Chapter 41: And Now I Will Perform an Interpretive Dance: Kinetic Writing
- Chapter 42: Note to Self: Writing Autobiography
- Chapter 43: Smell This Story, Taste This Poem
- Chapter 44: Grammarama: Homonym Stand-Off
- Chapter 45: How to Be the Next President of the United States!
- Chapter 46: Character Assassination!
- Chapter 47: Sonnets with Superpowers
- Chapter 48: Best Imaginary Vacation Ever!
- Chapter 49: What's the Scoop? How to Get the REAL Story
- Chapter 50: The Illustrated Book Report
- Appendix