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Narrative craft — dialogue, detail and a real ending — Take-Home — 3rd Grade Writes a story with a problem, dialogue punctuated properly, sensory detail, and an ending that isn't "I woke up". This one-page 3rd Grade take-home carries the two-minute check that tells you whether the skill is wobbly, then "Show, Don't Tell" — 20 minutes with paper, pencil — plus what to say…
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Narrative craft — dialogue, detail and a real ending LITERACY · 3RD GRADE Name Date TAKE-HOME PRACTICE Writing · 3rd Grade 20 minutes WHAT THIS BUILDS Writes a story with a problem, dialogue punctuated properly, sensory detail, and an ending that isn't "I woke up". 1 THE TWO-MINUTE CHECK ASK "Write a short story where someone loses something. Put one line of speech in it." A SOLID ANSWER A problem, a resolution, and speech marks in roughly the right places. Not yet Getting there Solid 2 SHOW, DON'T TELL You need: Paper, Pencil Take a flat sentence: "He was scared." Rewrite it together showing the fear — hands, breath, what he looked at. Do three more together: happy, tired, angry. They write a short story and must include one shown feeling and one line of dialogue. Teach the speech rule once: new speaker, new line, punctuation inside the marks. Underline the best sentence in their story and say exactly why it works. SAY THIS WHEN IT STALLS "Don't tell me he was scared. What was his body doing? Let me work it out." Rewrite one told sentence into a shown one. That's the whole session. Write the same scene from two different characters' points of view. IF IT'S TOO HARD IF IT'S TOO EASY Did it M T W T F Full year of take-homes: www.littleactivity.com/takehome/grade-3 www.littleactivity.com 3rd Grade · Literacy
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Narrative craft — dialogue, detail and a real ending LITERACY · 3RD GRADE Name Date TAKE-HOME PRACTICE Writing · 3rd Grade 20 minutes WHAT THIS BUILDS Writes a story with a problem, dialogue punctuated properly, sensory detail, and an ending that isn't "I woke up". 1 THE TWO-MINUTE CHECK ASK "Write a short story where someone loses something. Put one line of speech in it." A SOLID ANSWER A problem, a resolution, and speech marks in roughly the right places. Not yet Getting there Solid 2 SHOW, DON'T TELL You need: Paper, Pencil Take a flat sentence: "He was scared." Rewrite it together showing the fear — hands, breath, what he looked at. Do three more together: happy, tired, angry. They write a short story and must include one shown feeling and one line of dialogue. Teach the speech rule once: new speaker, new line, punctuation inside the marks. Underline the best sentence in their story and say exactly why it works. SAY THIS WHEN IT STALLS "Don't tell me he was scared. What was his body doing? Let me work it out." Rewrite one told sentence into a shown one. That's the whole session. Write the same scene from two different characters' points of view. IF IT'S TOO HARD IF IT'S TOO EASY Did it M T W T F Full year of take-homes: www.littleactivity.com/takehome/grade-3 www.littleactivity.com 3rd Grade · Literacy
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