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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
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