Editor Christine N. Smith Managing Editor Ina Massler Levin, M.A. Grades 4 8 Illustrator Kevin McCarthy Cover Artist Tony Carrillo Art Manager Kevin Barnes Art Director CJae Froshay Imaging Rosa C. See Publisher Mary D. Smith, M.S. Ed. Author Connie Williams Teacher Created Resources, Inc. 6421 Industry Way Westminster, CA 92683 www.teachercreated.com ISBN-1-4206-3139-X 2005 Teacher Created Resources, Inc. Made in U.S.A. The classroom teacher may reproduce copies of materials in this book for classroom use only. The reproduction of any part for an entire school or school system is strictly prohibited. No part of this publication may be transmitted, stored, or recorded in any form without written permission from the publisher.
Table of Contents Introduction..................................................................... 3 Objectives...................................................................... 3 How to Use this Program........................................................... 3 Student Guidelines................................................................ 4 Writing: A Four-Step Process........................................................ 5 Pen Name Anthologies............................................................. 6 Lesson 1: Program Introduction: Get in shape with Miss WriteRight........................... 7 Lesson 2: Sensory Overload: Descriptions that get the job done............................ 13 Lesson 3: Spicy Verbs: There will be no snoring in my soup................................ 16 Lesson 4: The Magic of Threes: Painless pigful paragraphing.............................. 20 Lesson 5: Another Time, Another Place: Rescuing dinosaurs............................... 22 Lesson 6: Dynamic Dialogue: Huh? Who said that?..................................... 25 Lesson 7: Catchy First Lines: Give me a clue.......................................... 30 Lesson 8: I Am... Stories: With or without the dog slobber............................. 34 Lesson 9: Problems, Problems, Problems: Going from bad to worse......................... 36 Lesson 10: Out of My Element Stories: My seat partner just ate his paste.................... 38 Lesson 11: Setting the Setting: Four words: gum, Chrissy, math book........................ 39 Lesson 12: Soliloquy, Shmoliloquy: Hamlet never had it so good............................ 41 Lesson 13: What If?: Introduced by someone with spaghetti on her head.................... 43 Lesson 14: Fit the Phrase: Excuse me, but that man is sitting on your cupcake.................. 46 Lesson 15: The Power of Persuasion: Four words: gum, Chrissy, hair, pillow.................. 47 Lesson 16: Raving Reviews: Whine and song.......................................... 49 Lesson 17: Really Tall Tales: Paul Bunyan is a wimp compared to these guys................... 52 Lesson 18: I Admire: Learning from the best........................................... 55 Lesson 19: Autobiographies: Who am I?.............................................. 57 Lesson 20: Biographical Mini-Reports: Who are they?................................... 58 Lesson 21: Cooked-Up Mysteries: I m clueless.......................................... 62 Lesson 22: Freestyle Free-for-All: Free at last!......................................... 65 Across the Curriculum............................................................ 66 Math Social Studies/History Language Arts Science Reading Art and Music Public Speaking Additional Support Materials....................................................... 71 The Story Plan Sample Note to Parents Story Evaluation Forms Peer Feedback Forms Anthology Cover Anthology Table of Contents Historical Event Research Amazing Animal Research Research Bibliography Bibliography.................................................................... 80 #3139 Write Creatively 2 Teacher Created Resources, Inc.
Introduction Write Creatively is a writing program designed to enhance student writing skills and foster creativity. Students use pen names throughout the 22-lesson program to help unleash their creativity under a safe blanket of anonymity. Each unique and fun lesson follows the same four-step process, which consists of creating a rough draft, editing, writing the final copy, and presenting the story. Students are motivated to communicate clearly so the teacher can read their stories each bearing an anonymous pen name with good expression during the presentation step. Plus, as an added bonus, students get the opportunity to glow in the dark while they anonymously soak in the positive responses of peers to their writing. Objectives Students will free up their creativity as they write under the protection of anonymous pen names. Students will master valuable writing skills that they can integrate into other areas of study and life. Students will develop self-editing skills. Students will learn to communicate clearly and neatly so the teacher can read their stories aloud with good expression. Students will receive personal satisfaction from hearing the teacher read their stories and from positive peer reaction. Students will learn from each other through the sharing of their writing. How to Use this Program The lessons in this program do not need to be done in order. Each one is independent of the others and designed to be used as a complement to other areas of the curriculum. For example, when you study verbs in English, present Lesson 3: Spicy Verbs. A teacher page for each lesson identifies the objective or objectives of the lesson, what you need to do before the lesson to prepare, and how to present the lesson. (Note: Lessons 10, 14, 19, and 22 are selfexplanatory and are not accompanied by a teacher page. Simply make overhead transparencies of these lessons and present them to the class.) Support materials such as student worksheets, overhead masters, and detailed assignment pages are also provided. It is recommended that you make an overhead transparency of the assignment page to be displayed as you give the assignment and while the students work. If a student is absent, simply provide him or her with a copy of the assignment page. You may also find it helpful to provide students with individual copies of the writing assignment page to keep them focused on the assignment, especially if they will be working on the assignment outside of the classroom. Teacher Created Resources, Inc. 3 #3139 Write Creatively
Lesson 1: Student Worksheet Name: Editing Practice Directions: Edit the sample paragraph below using the editing checklist and editing symbols provided by your teacher. Use a blue pen to make your editing notes. billy bob burton s bike Cowabunga Billy Bob Burton fell off his bike and landed in Mrs. Johnsons daisty patch. Luckily, Billy Bob was was wearing his helmint, so he didn t get hurt by the daisys? unfortunately the daisys didnt do two well in fact Mrs. Johnson was very upsett when she saw her smashed flours, and Billy Bob apologized and told her to stop worying because he would take care of everything. The next day he made some tiny little helmits out of plastick he brought them to Mrs. Johnsons daisy patch and put them on the little flower heads. He is such a good boy? Teacher Created Resources, Inc. 11 #3139 Write Creatively
Lesson 1: Overhead Master Editing Practice Answer Key billy bob burton s bike Cowabunga Billy Bob Burton fell off his bike and landed in Mrs. Johnsons daisty patch. Luckily, Billy Bob was was wearing his helmint, so he didn t get hurt by the daisys? unfortunately the daisys didnt do two well in fact Mrs. Johnson was very upsett when she saw her smashed flours, and Billy Bob apologized and told her to stop worrying daisy helmet daisies upset daisies worying because he would take care of everything. The helmets plastic next day he made some tiny little helmits out of plastick he brought them to Mrs. Johnsons daisy patch and put them on the little flower heads. He is such a good boy? #3139 Write Creatively 12 Teacher Created Resources, Inc.