Show Don’t Tell Emotions Narrative Writing Mini-lessons Unit

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Stop planning writing lessons from scratch and get your plans done today! This show, don’t tell unit guides students through noticing language that shows rather than tells, describing different emotions, revising their own writing, and trying their new strategy out in new narrative stories. Activities are hands-on and authentic and include step by step lesson plans!

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Stop planning writing lessons from scratch and get your plans done today! This show, don’t tell unit guides students through noticing language that shows rather than tells, describing different emotions, revising their own writing, and trying their new strategy out in new narrative stories. Activities are hands-on and authentic and include step by step lesson plans!

Included in this resource:

  • Teacher tips for introducing writing strategies
  • Mentor text list for language that shows emotions
  • Lesson plans for the unit (7 days)
  • A hands-on activity in which students read examples of showing emotions and identify the emotion being described
  • Materials for building an anchor chart to record the hands-on learning
  • 7 Show, Don’t Tell posters with sentence starters
  • A language generating activity for 14 different emotions (sample keys included)
  • Emotions Idioms handout for notebooks
  • Revise It: revise boring paragraphs using show, don’t tell language (sample key included)
  • Revise Your Own: a guide to revising your own boring writing
  • Try It: students write a narrative to show, not tell six different emotions
  • Show, Don’t Tell tips – a bookmark sized tip sheet

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