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Writing Prompt

Are Ghosts Real?

Theme Holiday
Grades 3-5

In the Classroom Writing Prompts

Introduction

Students will compose a fictional narrative in the form of a ghost story that is written from the ghost’s perspective.

Learning Objectives

Students will

(ELA-Literacy.W.4.3) Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details and clear event sequences.
(ELA-Literacy.W.4.3.A) Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

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