Club Write
| Series
Information |
Curricular
Areas:
Language Arts |
| Length:
14/15-Minute Programs CC |
| Grade
Levels: 4-7 |
|
Teacher's
Guide |
|
This
series provides comprehensive, contextualized support for developing
writing skills at the upper elementary and middle school level.
Episodes
can be used within and across curriculum areas to support many different
applications of writing, from lyrics to persuasion to technical
reports.
In
each program, students are challenged to approach a writing assignment
in a different way. Contextual real-life settings where different
writing styles are employed are carefully woven into stories.
Episode Descriptions
1
Journal Writing — Meet the Writing Club Kids as they
learn about daily writing in a journal.
2 Biography/Autobiography — Students pick a person to
become the subject of their biographies.
2 Writing Epitaphs — Teaches poetic and summary as students
tour a local cemetery.
4 Poetry — A Shakespearean actor presents a poetry reading
to the writing club.
5 Persuasive Writing — Students enter a writing contest
that challenges the to create persuasive essays.
6 Descriptive Writing — The Writing Club is assigned
to describe a place so that the reader will feel as if they have
been there.
7 Expository Writing — The students write an essay explaining
why elephants have been brought to this country.
8 Math — Following a discussion of geometry, the students
focus on urban architectural elements and write a creative story.
9 Writing Reports — To get started on their Web page,
each member writes a report on a career.
10 Point of View — Kyle begins to wonder if the story
of Robin Hood might change if told from the Sheriff’s point
of view.
11 Lyric Writing — A professional songwriter explains
the parts of a song and then works with the students to compose
lyrics.
12 Drama — The students take a well-known children’s
story and write a dramatic adaptation for it.
13 Writing a Research Paper — Writing Club members learn
to research, write, revise, and publish their research papers.
14 Writing the News — The Writing Club starts a school
newspaper. A journalist tells them about news writing and the club
takes a tour of the local newspaper facility.
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