Teaching Fun

Cute ideas to use with the story.

Objective: The student, after reviewing the parts of a narrative story, will be able to create a writing castle folder out of construction paper and write a creative narrative story using the prompt: "Once upon a day in a medieval castle..."

Block Plan Day 1 * Identify monuments from the book. * Develop a list of vocabulary words form the book. KS -Introduce Ben's Dream by Chris Van Allsburg. -Create configuration wordcrosses. Day 2 * Research a monument. S -Prepare for presentation. Day 3 * Illustrate monument. S -Prepare for presentation. Day 4 * Present monument information to class. * Identify monuments location on world map giving coordinates. * Locate the creation of monument on a timeline. C K K -Present monument inform

Remember those little science jars that we put "grow body parts" into. Here is a cool writing activity that gets the kids to write with DESCRIPTION. Have fun!

Great response book to any fairy tale.

A small paper book to complete story elements for any fictional book.

Journal style writing response to any non-fiction book.

A letter to parents to explain the reading program.

Great for having students be accountable for their own points or to use in data folders.

Fun way to respond to any biography book. Great to use with the Scholastic My First Biographies.

Great for differentiation. 3 levels to choose from to practice story elements with any book.

for explaining how the program works. Is great for students and parent nights..