This Lesson's Title:

Three-Meal Weather

food-inpired adjectives drive organized writing

This lesson idea was built for WritingFix after being proposed by Nevada teacher Kaycee Goman at an SBC-sponsored inservice class.

The ideal "mentor text" that can be used when teaching this on-line lesson is the picture book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi & Ron Barrett. Before writing, students should listen to and discuss the writing style of this book's author.

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Three-Sentence Overview of this Lesson:

Inspired by Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, the writer will brainstorm adjectives that center around food that might fall from the sky.  Breakfast, lunch, and dinner foods will be brainstormed.  Writers will then compose a three-part piece of writing that describes (with great adjectives) an entire day of raining food. Teachers: Click here to see the entire lesson plan.

6-Trait Overview for this Lesson:

The focus trait in this writing assignment is organization; ask writers to create purposeful paragraphs as they create a descriptive story with, at least, three parts.   The support trait in this assignment is word choice; writers will brainstorm strong adjectives before writing.