Using the “Unlikely Diary Keepers” Lesson
WritingFix has a fabulous (and free-to-use) on-line lesson inspired by Doreen Cronin’s picture book, Diary of a Worm. Click here to read the lesson’s overview and have access to all its resources.
If you’ve used this lesson with your students, we want to hear:
1) What worked well for you with the lesson; or…
2) What adaptations did you make to have success with your students; or…
3) Anything else you think other teachers would enjoy hearing.
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1 Response to Using the “Unlikely Diary Keepers” Lesson
April 6th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I am a special education teacher and used this lesson with my 4th and 5th graders. I used the prewriting sheets and then had the students make a power point presentation with each diary entry as a slide. They loved it! After they had typed it all, I let them take photos off of the web to insert into their pages along with downloading some real recorded sounds of their animals. I will definately do this lesson again. They learned to do research- pulling interesting facts from their resources and then turning it into I statements. Next time I would focus a little more on the story line, but this was a good first introduction to power points, voice, and idea development.