Narrative Writing Contractions SCAMPER Upper Elementary Middle School

Can narrative writing be interactive and engaging? Yes! You're going to love this narrative writing lesson that also enables students to practice their contractions. Yep! It's a two-for-one special! If you have reluctant writers, you'll love how the prompt and activities along with loads of graphic organizers, and clear instructions will help all students be successful as they write about a day they were invisible. In addition to narrative writing and contraction practice, students will also get to do some fabulous revision work using the SCAMPER method.

SCAMPER is a creativity activity usually used with gifted learners, but you'll see that it works like a charm here to get *all* kids to revise their work. Yes, even those gifted kids who hate revising.

You'll love how students move through different kinds of learning experiences, working with partners, in small groups, and independently to create their narrative writing work.

Do you want low-prep activities? These are surprisingly low-prep for how engaging and interactive they are. Simply print, cut, and go! You'll get teacher instructions, classroom procedures, a key, and a rubric. The teacher directions are so detailed! You will have very clear, step-by-step instructions for what to do to teach the activity.

This narrative writing, revision, and contractions resource is perfect for:

✍Fourth Grade

✍Fifth Grade

✍Sixth Grade

✍Seventh Grade

Included in this Persuasive Writing Resource:

✅ Teacher instructions and ideas so you'll know exactly what to do

✅ Contractions practice sheet for partner work
✅ Graphic organizer to prepare to write their narrative piece
✅ Writing template with the instructions for their narrative writing prompt

✅ SCAMPER revision instruction sheet
✅ Rubric for the narrative writing piece that has student instructions integrated right into it

Your upper-elementary, middle school, or junior high Language Arts students will love these activities!

Learn More about the Day I Was Invisible Narrative Writing Activity and Contraction Practice Resource!

⭐ CONTRACTIONS PRACTICE: In this activity, students will work in pairs to decide how to cut an match contractions to the words they stand for.

⭐ DAY I WAS INVISISIBLE NARRATIVE WRITING: In this activity, students will have cut hearts with prompts written on the backs. In small groups, students take turn reading what the prompt says and sharing with the group. They'll use their ideas to create their essay (using contractions, of course!)

⭐ REVISION: To help students revise effectively (meaning "without complaining"), this lesson uses the SCAMPER method that gives students specific things to change. They'll pick four of the seven ideas.

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⭐⭐WILLIAMS' MODEL OF CREATIVITY ⭐⭐

This lesson is based on Williams' Model of Creativity, a model designed to develop the traits of creativity in students. This particular resource focuses on these traits:

☀️ Fluency - the ability to think of a large quantity of ideas
☀️ Flexibility - the ability to put things to other uses

☀️ Elaboration - the ability expand on ideas

☀️ Imagination - the ability to build mental pictures and visualize possibilities

In addition to addressing standards and providing an engaging and effective classroom experience, these activities will also build students' creativity skills.

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