This Lesson's Title:

The Vocabulary Fashion Show

writing a script for an imaginative fashion show that uses interesting transition words

This lesson was built for WritingFix after being proposed by NNWP Teacher Consultant Sandra Madura at an SBC-sponsored inservice class.

The intended"mentor text" to be used when teaching this on-line lesson is the picture book Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster by Debra Frasier. Before writing, students should listen to and discuss the writing style of this book's author.

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An original R.A.F.T. Writing Assignment:

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Three-Sentence Overview of this Lesson:

Inspired by Debra Frasier's clever vocabulary fair from her book, Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster, individual students will imagine what a vocabulary fashion show would be like. Assuming the role of a fashion show announcer, students will write a script that describes a vocabulary word's stroll up and down the runway at a high-class fashion show. Students will then team up with students who've scripted different vocabulary words, combine scripts, add transition words in between the "models," and perform their vocabulary fashion shows. Teachers: Click here to see the entire lesson plan.

6-Trait Overview for this Lesson:

The focus trait in this writing assignment is organization; writers plan for a story that has an interesting introduction and conclusion, and a story that is woven in between a repeated use of an original catch phrase.  The support trait in this assignment is word choice ; in between the repeated catch phrase, students will develop ideas in the form of sentences that are different from one another..