CNewman

More Craft Lessons to use in the K-3 classroom.  Lessons include cutting and pasting stories on pages and adding illustrations, using time transition with cue words such as the next day or later, using talk bubbles instead of quotation marks, finding new ways to write about old topics, describing the setting, staying on the topic, cause and effect, describing characters, writing through a mask, see-saw patterns, repeating a word or line and using surprise endings.  I am very interested in using these lessons in my classroom to put a new "spin" on writing.  I have already used some of the lessons with some success, however, with first graders it takes a lot of repetition to improve their writing skills.  We will keep working on it.