Unit 1: Read All About It

Activity 4:  Examine Elements (GLEs:  03, 05b, 05c, 07, 11, 14c, 20e, 21)

CC:  By reading to students from grade-appropriate books, teachers have an opportunity to model the process of using a Chapter Matrix Poster as a graphic organizer to analyze story elements.

Use MS Word to create the chapter matrix to analyze story elements.

Word template - "Story Elements"

Web Sites:

Dictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com

WordCentral.com

http://www.wordcentral.com/

Wordsmyth

http://www.wordsmyth.net/

The American Heritage Book of English Usage

http://www.bartleby.com/64/

Websites for developing paragraph writing

Guide to Grammar and Writing

http://cctc.commnet.edu/grammar/

Five Paragraph Essay

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/

Activities which can help develop the paragraph

Sandwich

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/sandwich.pdf

Sandwich Idea

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Mountain/9112/Parasandwich.html

Paragraph Sandwich

PowerPoint

Graphic Organizers

http://search.enchantedlearning.com/cgi-bin/uncgi/search?key=Graphic+Organizers

ReadwriteThink StoryMap

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/storymap/index.html