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Monster writing By Dawn
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We have a very creative language teacher who also happens to generously share her plans with us un-creative types. Here are her ideas--hopefully you can glean something to use.Students create their own monster. They | have to write an informational article, such as an encyclopedia article, about their monster. When I teach this, I xerox an encyclopedia article about tigers. We study what the article covers about tigers--their appearance, their eating habits, their habitat, their family life, their lifespan, and other facts. The students then generate what their article needs to convey about the monster | | they make up. I assign each student randomly a letter of the alphabet, which they have to start their monster's name with. They also have to illustrate their article with a picture of their monster.I've gotten great results with this. It allows kids to be creative but also teaches a form of expository writing. Some kids have skateboarding monsters, hamburger-gulping monsters, etc. Really cute. It helps if you design your own monster--picture and article--to guide them. If you want to, you can extend this into a folder about the monster. We also have students create the monster's favorite food, and write a how-to for how to prepare it. They also can write a persuasive speech convincing people to adopt their monster as a pet. The possibilities go on and on. I'll be starting this unit next week and following it through the week before Halloween. Hope this helps!
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