Mini-Lesson Outline

readwritethinklessonplans: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=322 (Genre study: The Jolly Postman: Writing Letters)

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=85 (Writing authentic letters)

Rubric for the The Gardener Packet Assignment

Book Project

KWL

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr2kwl.htm

http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/graphic_org/kwl/

Writing Workshop

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/index.htm

Biography

Fable

Holes

Literary Packet    (Online)

Literary Packet (Word Documents)

Figurative Language (simile poems)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/listenandwrite/similes/index.htm

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/index.htm (Writing with description)

Interview with Louis Sachar

Green Lake Gazette Assignment

Flat Stanley Project

Flat Freddy (Lowell)

http://wheatley.lkdsb.net/lara.htm (Flat Lara)                      http://www.unc.edu/~cblee/cindy.html (Flat Cindy)

Fables

Interactive Fables http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading40/aesop.htm

Units on Folktales and Fables- Many Versions! http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000376.shtml

EDSITEment Fable/Folktales (Grades 3-5) (Grades K-2)

Writing Fables and Fable Rubric

http://www.bluemountainmedia.com/Stories%26Proverbs/AesopFables.html

(Caribbean fables and folktales with audio samples)

Web-Based Thematic Unit

Bud, Not Buddy

Bud Packet Outline

BNB Interdisciplinary Literary Study Word Documents (Created by Dr. Frye)

Examples of Student Work:

Packet Covers

Kids During the Great Depression Packet

Casey at the Bat