Creative Writing

Designed for: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Teaches students in grades 3 through 5 the components of a well-written, creative story. It also shows students how to evaluate writing at four levels of complexity.

Targeted Skills

Communicating Ideas And Information
Writing For Specific Audiences
Writing For Specific Purposes

Story Building
Using Rubrics To Evaluate And Edit Written Work

Highlighted Features

Provides models for creative openings, setting, mood, plot crises/problem, climax and solution, and gives students exercises to practice these writing tactics
Uses a modeling approach to show students how to communicate ideas and information for specific purposes to specific audiences
Provides an overview of the writing forms – fiction, non-fiction, narrative stories, poems, and letters
Introduces students to the process of developing descriptive paragraphs, writing to explain, writing to persuade, writing to provide details, writing questions, and writing definitions

Gives students the opportunity to use rubrics to evaluate and edit written work at four levels of complexity
Students draw on skills developed in earlier units to identify grammar and content errors
The clue button provides students with an explanation of the skill area being covered

Resources

Scope and Sequence

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