In this lesson, Flotsam, written by David Wiesner, is used as a mentor text. Students will analyze the author's use of crazy illustrations and word choices. Students will then use a game on this web site where they will click to discover unique and crazy words. From the computer-generated verbs, nouns, and adjectives, and prepositional phrases, ideas for crazy illustrations will be generated for students to design in their writer's notebooks. [Requires Adobe Reader.] Marissa Moss, author of the Amelia's Logbook, is used as a mentor text during the extension of the lesson. [Requires Adobe Reader.]

Concepts

adjectives, illustrations, nouns, prepositional phrases, verbs, word choice

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Additional Tags

northern nevada writing project, writingfix, picture book

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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