Unique Moments Photo Album

Here is visual resource that is very useful for written work, previous oral discussion.

 

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I took these photos from different sources, and then added speech bubbles to some of them, for my students to write down  in it whatever the picture suggested to them. Some are funny; others, tender , moving or surprising and thought provoking.

  If you like, you can use them as story starters, too. Generally, these kind of images are engaging for children to work with.

In my experience, they work well for writting collaborative stories with KS1 children, though KS2 students enjoy creating  stories in pairs or individually.

Travelling with the main character in your book!

This activity is directly linked to your reading project, and it is especially good for reading buddies, as it implies a lot of research and writing work.

It focuses on creative writing responses about the story's main character. At the same time, this project involves students in researching information about a country that students choose to visit with their main characters. Prior to their vacations, students have to research the following information about their selected countries: flag, population, capital city, currency, languages, and the price of an airline ticket.

Students also have to plan what the main character will pack in his or her suitcase and the main attractions that they will visit in that particular country.

Next, students write about their favorite places that they visited in this country, items that they bought when they went shopping with their main characters, and the types of food that they ate in restaurants in this country. Finally, students explain why it is was fun to take a vacation to their selected countries with their main characters.

These fun creative writing responses are written inside unique suitcase . The  creative writing responses that are required for this project will make your students think about their main characters in a whole new way!

These suitcase book report projects are also a great way to add research and library skills into your reading lesson plans.

Below is  the assembling directions worksheet and a sample of what you’d like to include in the first draft.

This project is divided into the following creative writing sections:

• Researching the country, flag, population, capital city, currency, languages, and price of an airline ticket
• The main attractions that we plan to visit are...
• I think that ____ would enjoy visiting ____ because...
• Packing our suitcases
• Our favorite places that we visited together
• Shopping and Restaurants
• Traveling with ____ was fun because.

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