Using the “Make an Adventure” Lesson
February 25, 2008 at 7:18 pm | In Chapter Book Lessons | 1 Comment
WritingFix has a fabulous (and free-to-use) on-line lesson inspired by R.A. Montgomery’s series The Choose Your Own Adventure Books. 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 benefit from hearing.
Share your ideas and adaptations by posting your thoughts in the “comment” box below. Thank you in advance for participating in this community.
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As I read this fabulous lesson, I am reminded of a lesson I’ve done with students in grades 3-5. I use The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg. The book is really just a collection of illustrations that were supposedly left behind by the talented Mr. Burdick. Each sketch has a title and a sentence or two from a story Mr. Burdick is thinking of writing. He leaves the sketches with a publisher but never returns. What were the stories that were supposed to go along with these incredible sketches? Were the sentences meant to be the beginning of a story, the middle, the end…? I have the students choose a picture they want to write about, copy the sentence at the beginning, middle or end of their paper (wherever they think it fits) and then write the rest of the story. Now I will use this three paragraph adventurer format to more fully flesh out for the kids what I want to see in their writing. Thanks so much for sharing this!