|
|
 Student Samples Page:
Counting Sentences' Words
...so your sentences' words count more
The writing of author Jane Yolen is currently inspiring student writers to try new techniques with the traits of idea development and organization. Join us in teaching (and adapting) this on-line lesson and sharing your students' work.
You can publish up to three of your students' edited and finished stories at this page to be entered in a semi-annual contest for free classroom resources from the Northern Nevada Writing Project.
 Use these samples to inspire your student writers! Discussing the strengths of published student samples before, while, and after using this on-line assignment is important. If your students are engaged in trait- or skill-inspired discussions about any of the samples we've posted here, they will produce better writing, especially if you help them take their writing all the way through the writing process.
Thank you, those who share their students' writing with us. |
|
Additional Student Samples Being Sought:
Grades 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Learn more about WritingFix's policies for publishing student work by visiting our Publishing Student Writers Information Page.
WritingFix is currently seeking additional student samples from this writing assignment that can be featured in this space. Submitted student work must show evidence of revision, editing, and the final draft must be typed and sent through e-mail. Teachers: if you can help us obtain up to three student samples, along with a digital photo of the student(s) and a signed permission slips, we will send you a complimentary copy of one of the Northern Nevada Writing Project's print publications.
To have us consider your students' writing for inclusion on this page, you must post the writing to our Ning page dedicated to this lesson. Click here to access that page. You must first be a member of the Writing Lesson of the Month Network in order to post.
|
Student Samples: Upper Elementary
 Tiger's Roar
by Halie, fifth grade writer
The white tiger roared in a fierce, scratchy, deep voice. She bolted out of the jungle into a very small populated village. A young boy screamed in excitement. He had always wanted to see a white tiger. To the white tiger, the boy was dinner, but the boy did not know this, so he approached the tiger. The white tiger slowly stepped forward, causing the boy to believe that the tiger wanted to play. White tiger started licking the boy. The boy laughed, and the tiger chomped. What happened? No one will ever know. Neither the boy nor the tiger was ever seen again.
(Click here to print Halie's writing, along with samples from several of her classmates.)
|
|
