Indiana ELA Standard: 7.W.7

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Can your students help The Bard? We’ll fix five Shakespearean run-ons in three different ways.

In a sentence, punctuation may seem meek when compared to those mighty words, but punctuation has incredible power over the meaning of a sentence. Students will try re-punctuating sentences to find new meanings – without changing a single word!

When students learn about alliteration, it’s hard to steer them away from goofy tongue-twisters. Certainly, there must be more powerful and practical ways of using alliteration. In this lesson, I draw on delicious examples from Shakespeare to show how a very advanced writer used alliteration. Then, I break those ideas down so students can try them out.

Let’s spice up a typically dull lesson about the difference between “its” and “it’s” by asking students to write a children’s story about the adventures of a critter named It.