The purpose of the video lesson is to review what personification is and practice writing personification using objects and self-drawn pictures.

The resource offers multiple video lessons for each of the writing traits at the grade 6 level, using the resource "Write Traits Student Traitbook" Grade 6, by V. Spandel and J. Hicks.
The traits include:
- ideas
- organization
- word choice
- sentence fluency
- voice
- conventions and presentation are embedded throughout the unit lessons

Students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems and then brainstorm nouns and verbs to create personification in their own poems.

"Digital storytelling helps students build important 21st century communication skills and make personal connections to the content they are learning. Digital storytelling can help you engage students in deep thinking and help them become powerful communicators."

This guide includes lessons for:
*animal interviews (so fun)
*personification stories
*visual poem
*historical Journal
*cycle stories
*additional ideas

Students build a world of their own by answering curriculum aligned questions covering thousands of skill strands. Reading, writing, rhyming and phonetics are included.

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This lesson provides teachers with support for using text-dependent questions and Common Core literacy strategies to help students derive big ideas and key understandings while developing vocabulary using the illustrated text, "The Stranger." This story uses a mixture of pictures and words to explore the idea of the changes of the seasons and the expected natural events that occur with it' colder weather, leaves changing color, Jack Frost and migration. Chris Van Allsburg walks a fine line between reality and fantasy to create a mystery about the identity of the stranger who will represent the seasonal change from summer to fall. The Houghton Mifflin authors identify the storyĺĺs theme as an allegory for autumn and the use of personification to make the association.