Students practice writing detailed, sensory-rich descriptions by framing a small piece of nature and freewriting about it. From this minilesson, students can develop a variety of types of writing.

Students learn about paragraphing conventions in dialogue by revising their own writing.

Introduce students to the idea that movies and TV have their own language and grammar, which gives them special ways of telling their stories.

Do your students skim assigned text material without even engaging their brains? The Check and Line method encourages students to think about what they are reading and monitor their own comprehension of the information.