Polar Express Christmas Writing Activity for Google Slides with Videos

Item description

Engage students in writing at home fun with this engaging Google Slides narrative writing prompt. This digital Christmas activity is the perfect accompany to The Polar Express movie or book, but is not needed to complete the project.

Students will plan, draft, revise and edit an imaginative story about their adventure on the Polar Express.

ALL teaching videos are already included.. simply assign and go! Excellent for digital learning, distance learning, homeschool teachers, hybrid teaching, guest teachers, student teachers and the average busy teacher!

Students will practice basic skills on Google Slides while working on this presentation. ALL TEACHING VIDEOS are included, or can be replaced with videos that you make. Simply assign, and students will be ready to go.

This unit includes 5 lessons for one week of writing.

Week Overview:

• Monday: Introduction and Prewrite – Students will learn to add bullet points to their graphic organizer

• Tuesday: Draft – Students will write a basic topic sentence, 2 event sentences and 2 detail sentences (including adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, similes, onomatopoeia, commas, conjunctions and dialogue)

• Wednesday: Draft – Students will finish their last 2 events, 2 details and add a basic closing sentence

• Thursday: Revise/Edit – Students are walked through using a basic revising and editing checklist

• Friday: Students are taught to add photos and to use a rubric to check their work before turning it in.

What you get with the download:

A PDF linking to:

• Teaching Slide

• Student Planning Template

• Student Publishing Template

This was designed for second graders, but can easily be implemented in first and third grade classrooms.

These lessons build on each other, so might go through previously covered topics rather quickly. If you would like the comprehensive resource, upgrade to the bundle.