Letter GeneratorLetter Generator will be an awesome activity for my students to utilize for practice a few times then generate their first pen pal letter to a Makah student in Washington. It provides the proper structure for every part of a business and friendly letter. With the use of texting, e-mailing, and Facebooking, students are so far out of the realm of knowledgable writing and formating. Writing and sending letters is not going to become a lost art as long as I am an educator.
The second activity that I will utilize in my Language Arts classroom, is the "Stapleless Book". The following is the planning sheet ( I just love a preactivity structure):
The next jung image is of what one of the pages looks like; students choose the format of the page in terms of the image and the text positioning:
Book Format
My students will be able to go from their story strip to a short book highlighting the six most relevant scenes in specified chapters from our novel. The can also utilize these books for a vocabulary collection - my vocabulary instruction includes use of context from the story or selection from which the identified words are chosen, their part of speech, a useful synonym for each, and relevant illustration of the word in context. They just love me! :)
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