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The Houdini Box: What Did Houdini Hide? Writing Creative Endings
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| Grades | 3 – 6 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Standard Lesson |
| Estimated Time | Five 60-minute sessions |
| Lesson Author |
Ames, Iowa |
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LESSON PLANS
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Peer Edit With Perfection: Effective Strategies
Students take a fresh look at the revision process and help one another polish their written work through a peer-editing strategy that is simple, systematic, and constructive.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Prompting Revision through Modeling and Written Conversations
Students create a checklist outlining what effective writers do, revise his or her own writing, and engage in a written conversation to help peers with the revision process.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Once They’re Hooked, Reel Them In: Writing Good Endings
It’s important to “hook” readers at a story’s beginning, but it’s equally important to keep them interested. In this lesson, students learn to write effective conclusions to their own stories.
STUDENT INTERACTIVES
Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay.
Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
The interactive Cube Creator helps students identify and summarize key elements. It can be used as a prewriting or postreading activity.
Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a variety of topics such as a character in a book, a person or place from history, or even a physical object. An excellent tool to for summarizing or as a prewriting exercise for original stories.
STRATEGY GUIDES
Grades K – 5 | Strategy Guide
This strategy guide explains how you can employ peer review in your classroom, guiding students as they offer each other constructive feedback to improve their writing and communication skills.
Grades K – 5 | Strategy Guide
Implementing the Writing Process
This strategy guide explains the writing process and offers practical methods for applying it in your classroom to help students become proficient writers.