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12th grade creative writing classroom decors for Microsoft Word
iphone text message template (editable), con-text clues, context
Great for bulletin boards or a fun center for writing, vocabulary review, context clue, dialogue fun and much more! Use this editable text message template to create a great bulletin board display or fun writing activity for your students!After an activity of your choice, use this fun template to allow students to creatively make a text message conversation. *Completely editable template* Modify however you choose for any fun writing activity!Included: - Editable text message template (you can c
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2nd - 12th
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If I had $100... Creative Writing Prompt
Lovely Lauren says,
You've got to grab this great writing prompt for the 100th day of school! To celebrate all things 100, I thought giving your students $100 dollars would suffice! :)
Brainstorm with children what they would do with $100 dollars and just see what kind of creative responses you get!
Your kids will have to chance to have their face on a $100 bill! They could draw themselves, or you can take a picture of them and attach it for some added pizzaz!
This creative writing activity
Grades:
K - 12th
Open House Display Idea for Upper Grades - Six Word Memoirs
So many times, teachers of upper grades struggle with some creative idea to display student work for Open Houses or Parent Conferences. Recently, a series of books has been published based on the idea of a six-word memoir. Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser's books include six-word memoirs from writers "famous and obscure", including one by teens called I Can't Keep My Own Secrets, and the original collection, entitled Not Quite What I Was Planning. The idea is for students to express their "so
Grades:
7th - 12th
Coloring Pages Soup / Soups / Cooking / Stew / Chowder Soup Day Foods Art
Foster creativity with this awesome soup day coloring set. This set includes 29 images. Ideas to challenge the students:-Invent a story for your image, what is happening? What happened 2 days ago? What will happen tomorrow?-Color the image in only one color (focus on light and dark).-Color half and your friend colors half.-Color half angry and color half happy.-Describe the image in writing or orally.-Add a background These are intricate illustrations intended for large 8.5” x 11” format, no w
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2nd - 12th
Cosmetology Academy Award Project
Take advantage of the excitement surrounding the Academy Awards. The Cosmetology Academy Award Project gives you a detail outline for students to follow. The project includes directions for a written paper, a poster presentation, and a guideline for mannequin completion. All you will need to do is to assign the specific actresses and movies. It is ready to roll!
Grades:
10th - 12th, Adult Education
Write Your Own Fable
Use this fable lesson and writing form to inspire students to write their own fables. It's a great beginning of the school year writing assigment because fables are short stories. This lesson gives a definition of fables, examples of fables, as well as a writing template. A great way to introduce this lesson would be with a video, tape, of DVD of a fable or by reading several to the class. A good way to assign this writing activity is to have students work backwards by selecting a moral firs
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
10 Free Author and Activist Posters For Your Culturally Responsive Classroom
Please enjoy this free set of ten author and activist quote posters! Also, please don't forget to rate them.
Whether you are setting up a new class or giving yours a makeover, these posters will brighten up your space and inspire your diverse community of learners. In my own class, I often refer to these quotes on my wall to generate conversation and inspire creative writing and poetry assignments.
Have a wonderful year, teachers. Stop in for upcoming unit plans and teaching tools.
-Alex
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Fall Haiku Poetry Form
Celebrate fall with this haiku poetry assignment. This form teaches students how to write a haiku poem as well as provides them with a form on which to write it. This would be a great addition to your students' writing portfolios. Collect all of the seasons. They are also provided in a packet entitled "Poems for all Seasons". These could also be displayed on bulletin boards or in hallways.(Also, see my poetry bookmarks as well as my holiday portfolio packet.)
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Motivational Quote Posters Assignment
This is a great way to get students to think and interpret what the author was thinking when the quote was said. I love to put motivational quotes around the room and years ago I started to pick a quote a week and have my students interpret what the quote means as well as how they can relate it to their lives. The students love the assignment and their write ups lead to great class discussions. I have used this assignment for Jr. high classes but it would work for as low as 5th grade to high
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5th - 12th
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Stretch a Sentence - Writing Minilesson
This is a poster than when enlarged to A3 can be used for teaching a mini lesson about stretching a sentence.
The poster outlines ways to stretch out a sentence to give more details.
This poster was originally made for a high school special education class as part of the writing block in the Four Blocks Literacy Framework.
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2nd - 12th
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Thanksgiving Rebus Story
If you believe that variety is the spice of writing, then you'll want to purchase this 5 page unique writing lesson. Students will have a ball writing and decoding rebus stories about Thanksgiving. First, there is a rebus for them to decipher. Then there are directions on how to write their own. Next there are 2 pages for writing. The lines are an extra wide distance apart to allow for pictures. Last there is a word bank of Thanksgiving-related words as well as an answer key for the rebus
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Holiday Poetry Portfolio
This holiday poetry packet is a must to have in your students' writing portfolios. It should be kept in portfolios as an ongoing writing activity and students can be assigned to writing an array of different types of poems as each holiday occurs during the course of the school year. By the end of the school year, you will have a marvelous collection of poems to share with parents and students will be proud of their writing accomplishments. They will be quite impressed. A checklist will also
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Independent Reading Poster Project (for any book!)
Do you want students to read a book independently and complete a project for it? Posters are perfect for this! Students love to have a chance to flex their creativity and show what they know. In this project, students will create a poster that represents the novel that they read in class. This includes instructions, a reflection on their artistic choices where they connect it to what they read, and a rubric for you to assess them on. Students will show knowledge of characters, symbols, plot, imp
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Independent Reading Projects Bundle! (works for any book!)
Writing Process Posters/Clip Chart
This is a pack of writing process posters including:
Prewrite, Draft, Revise, Edit, Publish
Goes great with Ruth Culham's Trait Writing!
Can be made as a bulletin board, or assembled as a clip chart to be used with clothespins to monitor student progress. Great visual for the writing process! The students love seeing their clip move through the process!
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K - 12th
Dead Word list for High School Writers
Use this list with you students - break bad habits in writing! Tuck it away in a writing portfolio and ask them to pull it out during the editing process to cross check their own writing against the list. Making word list with students in class to find replacement words is a great activity to do when initially passing this out to students.
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
What is an Adjective? Writing Minilesson
This is a poster that outline the purpose of an adjective. It shows what sentences with and without adjectives look like, highlighting what adjectives can do for writing.
This poster can be used to display around the classroom or for a writing minilesson.
This poster was made originally for a high school special education class as a writing minilesson as part of the Four Block Literacy Framework.
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K - 12th
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Marriage Contract--like water for Chocolate
this is a great way to start LWFC. Students examine how they feel about love and marriage by writing a marriage contract. The rubric is included as well.
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Grades:
10th - 12th
Spring Diamante Poetry Form
Celebrate spring with this diamond-shaped poem called diamante. This form teaches students how to write a diamante poem as well as provide them with a form on which to write it. This would be a great addition to your students' writing portfolios. Collect all of the seasons. They are also provided in a packet entitled "Poems for all Seasons". These could also be displayed on bulletin boards or in hallways.(Also, see my poetry bookmarks as well as my holiday portfolio packet.)
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Ice Breaker Activity- 6 Word Memoir
"I asked. They answered. I wrote." Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway, a famous and celebrated author, was once challenged to write a story using only six words. This fun ice breaker activity passes on the challenge to students, with creative brainstorming prompts ("If you were a type of salsa, what would you be?"), directions, and examples, for writing their own "6 Word Memoir." It's a fun way to engage the students at the beginning of the year and briefly share out their personality to you an
Grades:
7th - 12th
Writer's Toolbox (Banks of creative verbs, varied syntax, & punctuation)
Moving students from one level of writing to the next is a challenging and often daunting task. Their ideas may be insightful, but their writing style lags behind -- filled with repetitious diction and syntax. Directing students to elevate their language often leads to an unhealthy attachment to the thesaurus, which creates unbalanced prose and artificial wording. A more subtle and creative approach is to encourage students to focus on figurative verbs to make their writing more vivid. At the be
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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58 Introduction Starters for your students
This document has 58 Introduction starter and 10 bonus conclusion starters. Students can use when essay writing to help find creative ways to start a essay, can also have your students memorize a starter a week in preparation for the LEAP writing assessment at the end of the year. Student will be well equip to write a creative essay.
Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
POSTERS about CREATIVITY with BABY ANIMALS THAT MATCH THE QUOTATIONS
These posters are designed to motivate students to tap into their creativity.
Make your bulletin board with these, and refer to the quotes when students hit a creative slump.
The baby animals that match the quotes will draw students to look at the posters.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Winter Cinquain Poetry Form
Celebrate winter with this cinquain poetry assignment. This form teaches students how to write a cinquain poem as well as provide them with a form on which to write it. This would be a great addition to your students' writing portfolios. Collect all of the seasons. They are also provided in a packet entitled "Poems for all Seasons". These could also be displayed on bulletin boards or in hallways.(Also, see my poetry bookmarks as well as my holiday portfolio packet.)
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Grades:
2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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