Using funny animal images to warm students up for writing
Focus: Generating ideas, sentences, words, spelling, punctuation, editing
Students could watch and discuss the video, then write an introduction, including details about the setting and characters. Their challenge could be to include a hook.
A big thank you to the teacher from Arawang School for sharing the two Year 5 student exemplars.
Images by David Mark (Pixabay).
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Using funny animal images to warm students up for writing
Focus: Generating ideas, sentences, words, spelling, punctuation, editing
Includes: Two templates with decorations (one with lines and one blank)
Focus: Publishing short messages on Christmas decorations
Includes: PDF of Self-check and Partner-check signs, JPG versions of each sign
Focus: Designating time for self-checks and partner-checks during writing
