Sometimes Teaching

A 5th grade Langauge Arts project in which students will learn to plan and write a memoir about an experience or event that affected them in some way.

In this taskcard, originally created for a Project CHILD textbook station focused on developing narrative writing in 5th graders, students write their own flash science fiction stories. Students will read about the basic characteristics of the science fiction genre, choose from five original writing prompts, plan a short "flash" narrative, and then write their own science fiction story.

Grammar the fun, easy, visual way it should have been taught. A fun guide to the basics of punctuation, parts of speech, and sentences that helps students learn grammar with smiles instead of groans.

In this fun writing activity students will plan, draft, revise, and write their own narrative stories based on a wordless comic strip. This is a great way both to introduce the organizational elements of narrative writing (a clear beginning, middle, and end) as well as to allow student's imaginations to roam free.