Are you looking for ways to encourage your students to show feelings in their writing instead of just telling them? This writing unit includes everything you need to teach your students about the importance of showing feelings in their writing. Included in this unit are: *Writing Ideas List: Feelings- This brainstorming list allows students to gather ideas for their stories by thinking of times when they felt a certain way *Feelings Charades- This activity is so FUN! Volunteers in your class will act out different feelings while the rest of the class records the body language/actions that they notice. This game helps students understand how to "show not tell" in their writing. This game includes 6 feelings cards and a recording sheet. *Showing Feelings Chart- This chart can be used as a resource in your students' writing notebooks/binders. Twelve different feelings are described so that your students can reference the chart when writing. *Changing Telling to Showing- Four different practice pages allow your students to practice changing a telling sentence into a showing sentence or paragraph. I included four different sentences so that you can use these whole group, in partners, or independently. *Showing vs. Telling with Patricia Polacco- This activity includes feeling cards that will be passed out to students. While reading different Patricia Polacco books throughout the unit, students will raise the feeling card they were assigned if they hear it in the story. Also included are charts for The Junkyard Wonders, For the Love of Autumn, and Chicken Sunday with specific page numbers and quotes from the text where a feeling has to be inferred. *Inferring Characters' Feelings- Once students understand how to infer feelings and how to show them in their writing, this independent practice page allows them to record quotes from a text while reading and the feeling they inferred. You can use this in guided reading groups, during reading workshop, or as an assessment to see if your students understand how to infer feelings. Please let me know if you have any questions about this unit! Be sure to download the product preview for more views of the contents!
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Show, Don't Tell: A Writing Minilesson! This blog post focuses on teaching students to write showing sentences instead of telling sentences. It includes an anchor chart and a FREE Bingo game!
Show, don't tell is often-abused writing advice. Accomplished authors have been vocal about why telling is also effective. Read tips for balancing both and choosing the right narration type.
Create a poster, laminate a reference sheet, and practice using this great show, not tell lesson. To create an interesting story, the writer needs to show NOT tell the reader about people, places, and things they are writing about. Writers can do this by creating mental pictures in the minds of the...
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Create a poster, laminate a reference sheet, and practice using this great show, not tell lesson. To create an interesting story, the writer needs to show NOT tell the reader about people, places, and things they are writing about. Writers can do this by creating mental pictures in the minds of the...
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This lesson provides step-by-step procedures to use when teaching students how to write using the Show, Don't Tell technique.
Teach your students that this fun classroom tradition is just as much “Look and Learn” as it is “Show and Tell.” Have a purpose in Show and Tell! Use this packet to help you establish that purpose! Packet Contents: Letters to Parents about Show and Tell Monthly Show and Tell Suggestions Show and Tell Theme Reminders Show and Tell Reminders Show and Tell Response Sheets 3 Clues Planning Sheet Posters: How to Look and Learn Posters: How to Show and Tell Suggested Questions to Ask Suggested Information to Share
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I chanced upon this technique two years ago when I was surfing on the Internet to look for an effective way to help my students describe better. It has proven to be very useful and successful. One important reminder, though is that vocabulary-building lessons should be carried out prior to a Show, not Tell lesson, especially so with average and below average second language learners. Things to prepare: LCD projector; Jumbled up strips of paper describing feelings; colour paper; colour pencils; glue; marker pens / magic pens; dictionary & thesaurus How do I use this technique in my lesson? 1. Introduce the concept Four Essential Elements in Show, not Tell technique 2. Show examples An example Alister and I came up with 3. Practice I use cooperative learning approach to get students to read some useful phrases/ sentences / expressions describing feelings. Each group is given 2 words. e.g. happy and sad; angry and bored; shy and amused; etc. Students, in groups of 3 - 4, are assigned to 2 - 3 phrases on strips of paper. They are to read and understand the expressions and categorize them under the appropriate circle maps. It would help tremendously if the teacher has a list of useful expressions to describe various kinds of emotions. Expressions to use in class Cooperative learning and circle maps in action 4. Presentation Each group to share their product by reading and acting out the expressions assigned to them. Read and Act Check these websites out to get more examples of Show, Not Tell technique: Write Design Online: Show, Not TellThis Craft Called Writing: A How to Guide on Show Not Tell Mrs Swanda's Writing Resources The Open Door Classroom Jennifer's Teaching Tool Foremost Press: Show, Not Tell
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Show, Don't Tell: A Writing Minilesson! This blog post focuses on teaching students to write showing sentences instead of telling sentences. It includes an anchor chart and a FREE Bingo game!
