Learning to write nonfiction text is an important literacy skill. This lesson guides students in writing descriptions of 100th day bottles they create at home. They will write clues about their bottles for a guessing game, practice descriptive writing, and create a class book. Several pieces of literature appropriate for use with this lesson are suggested.
In this lesson, students put the lives of historic Black figures into poetic form.
The “Hairy Monster Pots” art project leads to student writing fun.
A weekly writing assignment results in a year-end volume of work that , documents students’ writing progress.
Students respond to a writing prompt. Then they try to identify the classmate who wrote each response. In the process, they learn a lot about one another.