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Happy New Year!

New Year Fractured Tales, are a delightful way to review parts of speech: nouns, verbs and adjectives.

Students roll dice to see which word they will use to fill in the blanks from the word bank list.

They can work independently or with a partner.

After children have filled in all of the blanks, students draw a before and after illustration.

Have students read their story to another person, or exchange it with their partner.

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As another writing extension, challenge students to make up their own Fractured Tale using the same format.

Click on the link to view/download New Year's Fractured Tales.

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"We will open the book, it's pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." -Edith Lovejoy Pierce

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