What You Will Learn

  • Unlock your creativity and spark your imagination by rewriting nonfiction stories using your favorite animals as the new characters!

  • Use an existing nonfiction story as a springboard to inspire new stories about your favorite wild animals and their characteristics.

  • Rules and conjugation patterns of verb tenses can be fun! Get creative and rewrite stories in simple and progressive future tenses.

  • Use new vocabulary and expressions about wild animals to write exciting, well structured, 3-paragraph stories.

  • Pro Tip: After finishing this course, put your biliteracy skills to the test by taking the Spanish version, called "Escribiendo Historias: Una Mascota Nueva." You'll walk away knowing all of the vocabulary, grammar points, and writing tips in two languages! Pretty amazing, right?!

Course Curriculum

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  • 1

    Lesson 1: Vocabulary

    • New Vocabulary: Wild Animals vs. Pets

    • Vocabulary & Expressions

    • Speaking Practice

    • Quiz #1
  • 2

    Lesson 2: Read & Identify

    • Handout: The Magnificent Macaw

    • The Magnificent Macaw: Let's Read!

    • Fill in the Banks & Identify Expressions

    • Identify More Expressions & Quick Check

    • Quiz #2
  • 3

    Lesson 3: Rewrite the Story

    • The Magnificent Macaw: Change It Up!

    • Putting It Together

    • Your New Story 2.0

    • Quiz #3
  • 4

    Lesson 4: Future Tense

    • Future Tenses

    • Let's Practice!

    • Let's Change the Story

    • Quiz #4

Course Instrutor

Courtney Gordon

Courtney has been teaching for over 14 years and lives in Portland, Oregon. She holds a Master's in Education, B.A. in Elementary Education, and additional teaching endorsements in English as a Second or Other Language (ESOL) and reading. She has taught in public and private preschools with the youngest of our English learners, and works with students of all ages at Bilingual Bridges. She's undoubtedly one of our most sought after literacy teachers for elementary and middle schoolers, too! Courtney studied Japanese throughout high school and spent a summer living there before graduating. She especially enjoys working with students from diverse backgrounds, is an avid reader, and loves teaching math!

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