A fun vocabulary lesson where students can add, change and move words around to represent new scenarios and feelings. Here we have a sentence from ‘The Day The Crayons Came Home’ by Drew Daywalt that has been modified to make the situation scary.

5 Lessons

Grade: 1-2

Narrative Writing - The Day The Crayons Came Home

This mini unit breaks down the language and structure used by authors to add intricate detail to their stories. This unit uses Drew Daywalt’s ‘The Day The Crayons Came Home’ as a mentor text, however, these lessons could be completed with any book of your choice.

A fun vocabulary lesson where students can add, change and move words around to represent new scenarios and feelings. Here we have a sentence from ‘The Day The Crayons Came Home’ by Drew Daywalt that has been modified to make the situation scary.

5 Lessons

Grade: 1-2

Narrative Writing - The Day The Crayons Came Home

This mini unit breaks down the language and structure used by authors to add intricate detail to their stories. This unit uses Drew Daywalt’s ‘The Day The Crayons Came Home’ as a mentor text, however, these lessons could be completed with any book of your choice.

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Essential Question/s

What kind of vocabulary is used to make stories more vivid and interesting?

General Capabilities

Literacy
Critical and Creative thinking

Lessons

5 Lessons

Lesson 1

A fun vocabulary lesson where students can add, change and move words around to represent new scenarios and feelings. Here we have a sentence from ‘The Day The Crayons Came Home’ by Drew Daywalt that has been modified to make the situation scary.

Lesson
Reading | Writing

The Day The Crayons Came Home - Recrafted Sentences

Grades: 1-2

Create sentences that are more vivid and interesting by choosing effective words to describe the place, person or event.

Lesson 2

A creative writing lesson where students create the backstory of one of the crayons from Drew Daywalt’s ‘The Day The Crayons Came Home’. Here we have a story starter for the Pea Green Crayon, created as a class.

Lesson
Reading | Writing

The Day The Crayons Came Home - Story Starters

Grades: 1-2

Create sentences that are more vivid and interesting by adding new words to describe a particular place, person or event.

Lesson 3

A literacy lesson exploring the structure and language of postcards using ‘The Day The Crayons Came Home’ by Drew Daywalt. Here we have an example of a postcard that has been digitally annotated to highlight the structure of the text.

Lesson
Writing

The Day The Crayons Came Home - Postcard Features

Grades: 1-2

Identify grammatical and structural features in a text.

Lesson 4

A creative lesson where students have to infer and interpret clues left behind by the illustrator and the author to create the front of a postcard from one of the crayons in Drew Daywalt’s ‘The Day The Crayons Came Home’.

Lesson
Reading | Writing

The Day The Crayons Came Home - Illustrated Verbs

Grades: 1-2

Interpret and discuss the different types of images used in narratives.

Lesson 5

A writing lesson where students use the structure and grammar of a familiar text to write their own narrative. Here we have a written response in the form of a postcard using Drew Daywalt’s ‘The Day the Crayons Came Home’.

Lesson
Writing

The Day The Crayons Came Home - Postcard Reply

Grades: 1-2

Apply learned knowledge of text structure and grammar when creating a narrative.

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