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Informational Writing Craft: My Favorite Animal
By Qiang Ma
This product is especially fun for your class animal writing projects! It is a fun engaging writing task your students will enjoy. Prep Free! Ready to go!
Task:
1. Students are going to write a five sensory informational writing about your favorite animal using the Red Barn Craft Book pages.
2. This is a seven page-writing project: one page for the cover, one page for the topic sentence, four pages for the middle (five sensory writing: eye/see, hand/feel, ear/sound, mouth/food, + action), and one page for the conclusion.
3. Each student will choose an animal of his own to write.
Step by step assignment directions are giving using Teacher Writing Sample "Horses" as a model.
You could use this Red Barn Craft Book to write anything related to Animal Studies.
This product includes:
- Red Barn Craft Book in four formats: colored with/without writing lines and black lined with/without writing lines
- Lesson Plan for My Favorite Animal Writing Project
- Step by Step Assignment Directions
- All the posters your students need to write their favorite animals
- 1 Teacher Animal Writing Sample
- 2 Student Animal Writing Samples
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