Each week you will come here for your WRITING learning choices. You should choose 2 WRITING tasks each week from the choices below for your Choice Board. New choices will be added weekly, but you can still choose a task from a previous week if you haven't already completed it. Some choices require you to do lessons in order. Tasks with more than one part will say so in their description. Get creative as you pen through your WRITING tasks!
Writing
Week 11 (June 15 - June 19) WRITING Learning Experiences
Choose 2 WRITING tasks below for your WRITING choices on your Choice Board.
Writing Task 1 - Super students seriously study science in school. Say what? Writer's use alliteration, the repetition of similar sounds, to enhance their writing. See how Chris Van Allsburg uses this strategy in his story, The Z was Zapped and then try some alliterations of your own.
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Writing Task 2 - Find a quiet, comfy, and maybe even dark place to try this scary writing task. Describe what you hear to bring your story to life!
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Writing Task 3 - Create a classroom memory book to reflect on and remember all the happenings of this school year. Add to this file for a digital memory book or print out and fill in.
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Writing Task 4 - Don't give up on practicing your spelling just yet. Keep your spelling sharp with Spelling Trainer.
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Week 10 (June 8- June 12) WRITING Learning Experiences
Choose 2 WRITING tasks below for your WRITING choices on your Choice Board.
Writing Task 1 - Punctuation helps our writing make sense. What happens when punctuation takes a vacation? Try this activity out and learn about each type of punctuation and get some punctuation practice in!
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Writing Task 2 - These are a few of my favourite things! In this activity, you will list a few of your favourite things and then try to write them all into a creative story.
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Writing Task 3 - This is the 2nd of two lessons on opinion writing. In this lesson, you will think about your favourite thing and write to convince others of your choice.
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Writing Task 4 - Build words by using rhyming patterns in this word work lesson.
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Week 9 (June 1-5) WRITING Learning Experiences
Choose 2 WRITING tasks below for your WRITING choices on your Choice Board.
Writing Task 1 - Start with an Outlandish Claim - turn ideas into strong claims and then free-write to push your thoughts to the next level in this writing strategy lesson.
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Writing Task 2 - Corina the Corgi needs help with writing. Put your creative writing hats on to try to help Corina!
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Writing Task 3 - This is the first of two lessons on opinion writing. In this lesson, pick a dragon and write 3 reasons and 3 pieces of evidence to back your thinking!
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Writing Task 4 - Explore "root words" in this word work task. Match words to their root word and try your hand at building words from a root word.
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Week 8 (May 25-29) WRITING Learning Experiences
Choose 2 WRITING tasks below for your WRITING choices on your Choice Board.
Writing Task 1 - Rule of Threes. Try your hand at the "Rule of Threes" as you learn how to elaborate through lists!
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Writing Task 2 - Picture writing prompt. It's time to put your creative writing to the test with this laugh-worthy prompt.
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Writing Task 3 - This is the third of three lessons on comparison writing. In this lesson, you will review and revise your work from lesson 2 and add a conclusion. *Lessons 1 and 2 from weeks 5 and 6 must be completed prior to doing this lesson.*
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Writing Task 4 - Practice your spelling. How many words can you make?
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Week 6 (May 11 - 15) WRITING Learning Experiences
Choose 2 WRITING tasks below for your WRITING choices on your Choice Board.
Writing Task 1- Let your mind (and your pencil) wander with this writing stamina activity.
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Writing Task 2- Q&A! Have you ever wanted to be a reporter? Well now you have your chance! Create compelling questions and interview someone to gather responses.
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Writing Task 3 - This is the second of three lessons on comparison writing. In this lesson, you will use the Venn diagram that you created last week to draft a comparison paragraph. *Lesson 1 from week 5 must be completed, prior to starting this lesson*
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Writing Task 4- Learn how to make words plural by adding "s" or "es" to the end of root words in this word sort.
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Week 5 (May 4 - May 8) WRITING Learning Experiences
Choose 2 WRITING tasks below for your WRITING choices on your Choice Board.
Writing Task 1 - If it could go on Facebook (or SnapChat or Instagram or...) it could go in a notebook. Learn about how to use "snapshots" from your day to generate ideas for writing.
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Writing Task 2 - Picture writing prompt. Get creative as you complete the story that the picture doesn't tell!
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Writing Task 3 - This is the first of three lessons on comparison writing. In this lesson, you will pick two things to compare and create a Venn diagram to help generate ideas for lesson 2.
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Writing Task 4- Strengthen your word knowledge by completing word sort 2. *Word sort 1 was completed in week 2; it is not necessary to complete sort 1 to complete sort 2 but it may be helpful*
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Week 4 (Apr 27 - May 1) WRITING Learning Experiences
Choose 2 WRITING tasks below for your WRITING choices on your Choice Board.
Writing Task 1 - Learn to jazz up your information writing by using imagery.
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Writing Task 2 - Picture writing prompt. Get creative as you complete the story that the picture doesn't tell!
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Writing Task 3 - This is the third of three lessons on information writing.
** You must complete lesson 1 and 2 from week 2 and 3 prior to doing this lesson**
Click here to continue the information writing piece that you started in week 2.
Writing Task 4- Sharpen up your spelling skills with spelling training. Learn words through games and then test yourself.
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Week 3 (Apr 21 - 24) WRITING Learning Experiences
Choose 2 WRITING tasks below for your WRITING choices on your Choice Board.
Writing Task 1 - Get your non-fiction writing hats on and be prepared to ask questions and find the answers for this writing task.
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Writing Task 2- I spy with my little eye.....the Great Wall of China? The Royal Tyrrell Museum? For this writing task, you will embark on a virtual field trip and learn how to describe what you see.
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Writing Task 3 - This is the second of three lessons on information writing.
** You must complete lesson 1 from week 2 prior to doing this lesson**
Click here to continue the information writing piece that you started in week 2.
Writing Task 4- Strengthen your word knowledge by completing this word sort.
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Week 2 (Apr 6 - Apr 9) WRITING Learning Experiences
Choose 2 WRITING tasks below for your WRITING choices on your Choice Board.
Writing Task 1 - Now that you have had time to work on your writing at home, we want you to share what your BEST writing environment would be like.
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Writing Task 2 - Put on your creative writing hats! For this task, you will explore 2 different versions of The 3 Little Pigs, and then you will have the opportunity to create your own twist of this classic tale. You may choose to write a dramatic piece, create a video or maybe even an artistic representation to help tell your story.
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Writing Task 3 - This is the first of three lessons on information writing. Additional lessons will be posted in the coming weeks.
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Writing Task 4 - It's time to start amping up your spelling with Word Shake.
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Week 1 (Mar 30 - Apr 3) WRITING Learning Experiences
Choose 2 WRITING tasks below for your WRITING choices on your Choice Board.
Writing Task 1 - How has social distancing changed your routine?
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Writing Task 2 - Picture writing prompt. Get creative as you complete the story that the picture doesn't tell!
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Writing Task 3 - Would You Rather...? Play "would you rather" and get ready to support your choice in this opinion writing task!
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