This week my students are working on the diction analysis, which is an assignment requiring the students do the following: choose a section of text containing about 150 words, identify at least 6 literary devices, persuasive techniques, or logical fallacies, explain the effect of each device, compose a paragraph explaining the context of the ...

Batty About Bats Cover My son is going to make a bat book using the activities and information below. These booklets and activities will all go into my son’s bat book: “‘Batty’ Facts About Me” from Scrapbooking Student Writing “Bats” (nonfiction fifth-grade story) plus comprehension questions and cloze ...

My son is going to make a pumpkin-shaped book with the following “chapters”: Fun pumpkin facts Pumpkin reading and comprehension Pumpkin creative writing (with child-drawn pictures) Pumpkin recipes Pumpkin arts/crafts (child-made) The following Web sites will be used: Child-Made Pumpkin Fact Books Wanted…Someone is Stealing ...

My son will be making a Halloween book for his Halloween theme unit, using the following for some ideas: Art/Crafts/Games: Phantasmechanics Online: A Cute FCG Marionette for Kids Martha Stewart: Halloween Decorating Kaboose: Halloween DLTK’s Halloween Crafts for Kids kiddyhouse.com: Halloween Activities Apples4theteacher.com: Halloween ...

Here are a few ideas for an apple theme unit. Our son will be making his own apple book, which will be used as a reference. Pictures to come! Science: Apple Fun Facts (New York Apple Country) Apple Parts (University of Illinois Extension) Life Cycle of Apple Trees (University of Illinois Extension) How to Grow Apple Seeds (eHow) Apple Trees ...

September 23 is the first day of autumn! Here is a basic autumn outline that I am planning to use. Hope the information helps! I am also planning an apple theme unit, a Halloween theme unit and a Thanksgiving unit. More info to come! Define autumn. Why do leaves change colors? (edHelper.com) Maine.gov: Kids’ Page: Fall Foliage Video What ...

An acrostic is a poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word. Here’s a way for children to write one (see sample worksheet): Have the children write the subject of their poem (a single word) vertically, using capital letters. For example: S P I D E R S For each letter, have the children write a descriptive word or phrase ...

The purpose of child-made pumpkin fact books is for your children to have a reference book about pumpkins that they can reread in the future. I find that nonfiction child-made books are very popular during silent reading time. They are also a huge hit when they take them home to read to parents, friends, grandparents, [...]

On the first day of school, I would tell each and every one of my first graders that they had to write a story for me. I wish you could have seen the shocked looks on their little faces! They would cry out, “I’m only 6-years old! I can’t write a story!” I explained to them [...]

Two of my favorite teachers, both journalism instructors, are admittedly not the typical readers. One reads only non-fiction books, newspaper and magazine articles, and online list serves while the other contends he’s “not the typical English teacher” because he only reads online articles, list serves, and blogs. Even though they ...