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Great lessons on story elements including a picture book, resources, and guided notes for each element. There is also a link on here to an online story mapping activities that can have info added by students and then printed out.

Mysteries to solve, scary stories and magic tricks (mentioned in grad class, didn't have time to check out yet

"Okay, so also not to long ago I saw on Blog Hoppin' a teacher did a project for younger kids called turkey in disguise (sorry I don't remember the teacher, but she is so smart). So we decided since I saw it too late, to do Gingerbread men in disguise for our Christmas writing prompt. The students are currently working on stories about how they woke up and they found a gingerbread man running for his life and asking for help. In their story they must tell about how they disguised him, what they disguised him as, and how they helped him escape certain peril. They are having such a good time, they begged for extra writing time today. Anyway here are some of the gingerbread men in disguise, these are not all from my class. Our whole fourth grade is doing this project. aren't they adorable, these are just a few. There were way too many to choose from. Hopefully when they are done with the writing piece I can post some of those. I hope you all have an amazing last week before break, and as always thanks for reading! Mrs. B"

Scott Davidson (Ryan Landis' student teacher sent me this link - looks like a lot of resources for short stories, lengthier reading. fluency, writing, puzzles, etc.

News reference - organizes the news stories online -

This is the site Wendy showed us yesterday.

Student project - very well done, with a summary of Ruby's story and background music.

Immigrant Success - a video of people who immigrated to the US and made big contributions. Students may or may not be familiar with faces/stories.

Rap of the elements

One of the first stories in Pearson....Pay it Forward