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A Birthday Basket For Tia
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Abstract: This lesson will provide your students with an opportunity to brainstorm, predict, and check for understanding throughout this wonderful story about a little girl, Cecilia, who is preparing a special birthday gift for her 90 year-old Aunt Tia. Cecilia collects objects that represent her favorite memories ... More »
A Million Fish....Serving up Exaggeration
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Abstract: Students will become familiar with the term "exaggeration" and how it can be used in stories to catch the reader's attention. Students will create narrative stories of their own using exaggeration.
A Mutation Story
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Abstract: This video segment describes the role of the sickle cell gene in natural selection. Footage courtesy of the PBS series Secret of Life: "Accidents of Creation."
A Visit to a North Carolina Aquarium
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Abstract: Students will visit the website for the North Carolina Aquariums and choose one aquarium to visit. They will gather the information requested on the worksheet as if their family made an imaginary trip to the chosen aquarium. They will use this information to write a story about their imaginary trip.
Adding Emotions to Your Story
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Abstract: One way to make stories even better is to show emotions, and not just tell them. In this lesson, students will use actions, gestures, and facial expressions to act out emotions.
Alphabet Recognition with the Alphabet Band and Express
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Abstract: This activity will reinforce letter recognition along with letter order. Students will watch a video, listen to stories and play CD games on the computer to aid in recognition of alphabet letters, sounds and order.
An American Success Story: The Pope House of Raleigh, NC
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Abstract: tells the story of Manassa Pope, the first black man to receive a medical license in North Carolina (1886). After practicing medicine and helping establish a drug store and insurance company in Charlotte, Pope moved his family to Raleigh. There he continued his medical practice, built an elegant house ... More »
Animal Adjectives
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Abstract: Students will describe animals as they review nouns and verbs associated with these animals. They will learn to use adjectives as they describe the animals. They will use this knowledge to write their stories about animals.
Apple Story Writing With A Buddy
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Abstract: Students will write a story with a buddy through the use of a computer. Practicing computer skills and correct sentence formation will be emphasized.
Appositive Action
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Abstract: Appositives are descriptive phrases, set off by commas, that modify a noun or noun phrase. Using appositives helps writers create sentences that are smoother and less choppy. In this lesson, students will learn to combine 2 or more descriptive sentences and action sentences into one sentence with an ... More »
Child-Created Bulletin Board of Story Elements
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Abstract: This lesson will introduce young children to the elements of stories starting with characters. Children will be involved with interactive writing as they respond to shared reading lessons. Students will illustrate a caption of a character to be displayed on a bulletin board.
Connecting Folktales and Culture in North Carolina and Beyond
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Abstract: Students will explore connections to North Carolina culture as they engage in reading and analyzing three folktales of North Carolina Literary Festival author, William Hooks. After comparing these stories to other versions of the traditional tales, students will become authors and storytellers themselves ... More »
Creating a Book Review Using A Multimedia Stack
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Abstract: In this lesson, students will identify title, characters, setting, plot of a story that they have read. They will also be able to state their opinion of the story read and provide information about themselves as a reviewer.
Description as Mind Control: Using Details to Help Readers Visualize Your Story
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Abstract: Good writers help their readers visualize their stories by including vivid details. Students will listen to passages from Gary Paulsen's novel "Hatchet", draw one of the images from the passage, and identify which details Paulsen uses to create these images.
Discovering Just the Right Word
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Abstract: Precise word choice helps show the reader a story and not just tell a story. The purpose of this series of lessons is to help students improve their writing style by strengthening word choice at the word and sentence level by adding adverbs, precise verbs, and specific nouns.
Family Story with Research
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Abstract: Using the book, "When The Legends Die" and a Native American story-telling unit, students gather a family story of their own.
Formatting the Script
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Abstract: For the first lesson of this course, you are given a short story and you are told to format the story into the proper format for a motion picture script. Now is an excellent time to learn script formatting. This is a task that people do every day in Hollywood so this lesson give you excellent practice. ... More »
Fresco Cycle with the Story of Procris and Cephalus
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Abstract: offers nine frescoes depicting the mythological tale of Princess Procris and Prince Cephalus of Attica, a story of wedded bliss ravaged by distrust found in Book VII of the Metamorphoses by the ancient Roman poet Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 17). These nine paintings by Bernardino Luini are the only examples of ... More »
Frosty Friends
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Abstract: Students will draw snowmen using various tools in the illustration component of their program. Our students use KidWorks2 by Davidson but others may be used instead. They will then write original stories to accompany their illustrations.
Geologic Time: The Story of a Changing Earth
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Abstract: examines the history of Earth. Learn about the formation of Earth, dating the age of rocks, geologic time, plate tectonics, climate change, ocean circulation, evolution, extinction, ecology, and topics related to paleobiology.