Lesson overview

Introduction
UNIVERSAL
Middle years and up
drill and practice
voice
style
newspaper report
lyric poem
friendly troll texting
Australian convict letter
game review
presenting facts
sequencing details
rhythm
rhyme
imagery
word choice
humour
comedy
fragments
banter
dialogue
expressive punctuation
sentence lengths
summary description
judging
Quick and fun. One picture, five exercises in different writing styles: newspaper report, lyric poem, friendly troll texting, Australian convict letter, and game review. Students are give a snippet and a worked example, and they write their own version. Who can do the best impression? Each exercise stands alone. Do one each day, or do them all in one go.