http://writingfix2.edublogs.org/2007/12/14/24/ Teachers Sharing Writing Lessons. Teachers Adapting Writing Lessons. Teachers Sharing Adaptations. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:46:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://writingfix2.edublogs.org/2007/12/14/24/comment-page-1/#comment-42 merryellen Price Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:48:41 +0000 http://writingfix2.edublogs.org/2007/12/14/24/#comment-42 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. 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.

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