Happy Friday Everyone! When I was trying to figure out what posts I should do this week, I came across posts I have done in the past where I do quotes by authors, and it gave me an idea. Today I de…
Literacy Genre Posters and Genre Tally Handout Product contains posters for the following genres: -mystery -legend -poetry -tall tale -fable -fairy tale -historical fiction -science fiction -informational -myth -biography -autobiography -folktale -fantasy The last page of this document is a handout for students to keep a tally of what genres they have read.
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Writing Genres: Helping your students write in different genres. I don't know the statistics, but I would guess that over 80% of your writing lessons focus on narrative writing. I know I did in my classroom. Once in a while I'd throw in a lesson on writing a letter, and once a year that animal research report, but not much else throughout the year. A few years ago I attended a conference and one of the ideas presented was teaching the genres of writing through one topic. I think the topic she used to demonstrate the idea was horses, an appealing topic for most kids. She had her students write a fantasy story about a flying horse, an informative piece about caring for a horse, a persuasive piece about the best breed of horse, a poem about a horse and a descriptive piece about how it feels to ride a horse. Using just one topic, horses, the students gained a much better understanding of the differences between the genres. Light bulbs went on all over the room! Every teacher began thinking about topics that would interest their students and would work easily with different genres. Since it was winter I came up with my first genre writing project with a snowman theme. The kids loved it! And I loved it too, because it was an easy way to introduce the different genres and get the kids exciting about writing. The next year I added the scarecrow project to my fall writing schedule and followed up in the winter with the snowman project again. I've polished these ideas and now have them available in my TPT store, along with a Spring Garden Writing project, added this past spring. In each packet you'll find 6 different genres (the genres vary slightly with each project), writing guides/checklists, graphic organizers and final writing papers for publishing into a book. (Click on the image for a free sample from my Scarecrow Genre Writing Project) For more great ideas for Fall, head over to Teaching Science with Lynda. And then check out Crockett's Classroom on TPT for all three genre writing projects:
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Everything will work out in the end. You don’t need to know how. You just have to trust that it will.
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With "Things You Wanted To Say But Never Did" Filipino artist Geloy Concepcion started a collective project that gives new life to discarded images exposing our most intimate thoughts, fears and hopes, creating some of the most powerful images on Instagram
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Cursed Bunny by Bora ChungAhoy fellow readers, fasten your seatbelts because we are about to take a deep dive into the book titled Cursed Bunny written by Bora Chung. We came across this book while surviving autumn blues and winter might be the perfect time to pick this rare gem up. Cursed Bunny is a collection of short, twisted, grotesque, and symbolic stories that expose the irony of motherhood, capitalism, greed, and revenge. Shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize this book is b
