Make the most of your students' diverse ability levels and experience with a prewriting activity in which they describe an abstract idea using blogging and photographs that they have taken.

Students hone their teamwork skills and play off each other's writing strengths as they participate in prewriting activities for a story to be written collaboratively by the whole class.

Students use their five senses as a prewriting tool to guide their poetry writing as they compose free-form poems using imagery to describe a color.

The purpose of this lesson is to provide graphic organizers to support students in writing an adventure story.
Included:

- Handouts:
HO-19 Planning an Adventure Story Unit 4
HO-20 Adventure Story DRAFT Unit 4
HO-21 Adventure Story Final-Polished Copy Unit 4

This resource provides a step-by-step overview of the writing process.

Included:

A YouTube video that outlines the writing process
Handout: HO-4 The Writing Process Unit 1 (overview sheet)

The resource offers multiple video lessons for each of the writing traits at the grade 5 level, using the resource "Write Traits Student Traitbook" Grade 5, by V. Spandel and J. Hicks.
The traits include:
- ideas
- organization
- voice
- word choice
- sentence fluency
- conventions and presentation are embedded throughout the unit lessons

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

This writing process checklist can be used as a template to co-create a checklist with students that aligns with the writing task.