Angela Johnson: Everyone Has a Story to Tell / Schoolwide's Lesson of the Week (1/8/10)

 

Dear Community,

Subject: Angela Johnson: Everyone Has a Story to Tell / Schoolwide's Lesson of the Week (1/8/10)

What stories can your students tell? How do you help them take their own or their families' stories and turn them into evocative writing? In this week's lesson, famed children's author Angela Johnson tells us how she brings these stories to life.

Learn how to:

• Take family stories and make them powerful;
• Help students discover compelling facts about their own community; and
• Build students' confidence in their writing skills by demonstrating how everyone is good at something.
  
  CLICK HERE FOR THE LESSON OF THE WEEK.
  
  

 

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Highlights

Lesson Title: Everyone Has a Story to Tell

Subject: Writing Workshop / Generating Ideas

Audience: Grades 4-8

Description: Stories are all around us, and many are passed down through each generation. Angela Johnson explains how the people in our lives are sources of intriguing stories to tell and write about.

Share: Create a common tool for your entire school or school district by sharing the Lesson of the Week and using it to provide consistency. Please contact me at ldavies@schoolwide.com and I will be glad to assist you with this process.


Thanks so much for your participation. Read. Learn, Enjoy!