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Free middle school creative writing lectures
Black Out Poetry, Fun Poetry Activity, Blackout Poem Lecture Slides, FREE
Use this visually dynamic tool to get students excited about poetry. No, really, my teens LOVE this blackout poetry creative writing activity. View the 10-slide overview lecture (includes both Prezi Next and Google Slides versions) and imagine all of the possibilities your students could create.All you’ll need to fill an entire class session is the slide deck, dark markers or crayons, and a few newspaper pages or photocopies of a few pages from any novel you’re currently teaching.This item is pa
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Creative Writing Workshop Lesson 1: Introduction to Storytelling
Hi! I'm Livia Blackburne, author of the NY Times bestselling young adult novel Midnight Thief. In July of 2015, I ran a week long creative writing camp for middle and high school students. We had a ton of fun, and the students wrote some great short stories and novellas! After the camp, I revised my materials and expanded them for other teachers to use.
Lesson one is a bird's eye view of storytelling. Why do we tell stories in the first place? What makes a good story? How do you become a bet
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in:Â Creative Writing Workshop Complete Bundle
Four Types of Conflict--Mini Lesson
Mini lesson covering the four types of conflict found in literature. This mini lesson includes internal and external conflict, man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. nature, man vs. society, definitions, examples, and video links.
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Genre Lesson & Activity
Genre is what we all use to identify our favorite books, movies, and shows. This product will challenge students to identify their favorite genres with examples using their prior knowledge and then testing their newly learned knowledge. The lesson will bring you through what genre is, different types of genre, their descriptions, and examples. What's included: Genre PowerPoint LessonGenre ActivityThe genre lesson and activity enable students to examine and identify different forms of genre. Also
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5th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Creative Writing Bundle
Poetry Unit
This package includes intro lessons on Ballads, Odes, Sonnets, and Free Verse. Also included is a quick lesson covering soliloquy and monologue. There are practice problems added on at the end of each lesson that allow students to test their knowledge on poetry. There are four Google Slide lessons that pair with a handout that is given to students at the beginning of the unit. Poems needed to teach the unit are included too. This is a low prep easy to follow unit on identifying and applying ty
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6th - 9th
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Brief intro to Graphic Novels layout
This is a brief powerpoint that goes over the page elements of a graphic novel.
I use this with my Grade 11 class in teaching Macbeth; I had a graphic novel version of Macbeth that was fairly accurate to the play. I would photocopy a few scenes (enlarging it) and white out all the speech bubbles. Students would have to use visual cues to input dialogue.
This idea can also be adapted with younger grades as a story composition tool.
None of the info in the powerpoint is original (made by me
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Parody & Satire Slides
Parody & Satire Google Slides to introduce parody and satire. Parody & Satire: Fill in definitions goes with this slide show... can be found in my shop
Grades:
7th - 12th
Figurative Language
Figurative Language notes page for lecture, which includes a student activity on the second page. Covers alliteration, allusion, hyperbole, idiom, meiosis, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification and simile. Also discusses denotative and connotative meaning. Includes answer key. Goes well with second activity: Figurative Language and the Author's Purpose.
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Figurative Language Bundle
Short story and questions at the end of the story Ellie's Jungle Discovery
This WH Question Short Stories Set includes 10 WH Questions Each story asks Who, What, Where, When, Why and How! Perfect for Auditory and Reading Comprehension This short stories is designed to develop for children to read and understand. and answer questions after reading. Developing auditory comprehension skills will improve students abilities in the area of attention, discriminating important information, and later developing skills such as note taking! The stories can also work on main id
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Grades:
1st - 6th
Saving the Rainforest
Saving the Rainforest is a descriptive lesson highlighting how rainforests have been suffering over the past few years. The presentation describes summary, vocabulary words along with sentences and question and answers.
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS3-2
, MS-ESS3-1
, MS-ESS3-5
, MS-ESS3-4
, MS-ESS3-3
Types of Narrative Leads PPT: How to start a story & grab the reader's attention
This presentation covers 11 different ways to start a narrative story and provides examples of each type of lead. Students can use this before starting any type of narrative assignment or as a way to revise their narrative writing during the writing process. Students could take notes from this presentation in a teacher-guided lecture, or they could view the presentation independently and select the type of narrative lead they see in what they are reading or what they will use in their writing. F
Grades:
7th - 12th
Poetry Around the World: Meaning & Poetry Lesson Plan
Poetry plays with meaning when it identifies resemblances or makes comparisons between things. In this way, poetry deals with particular things in concrete language because our emotions respond best to these things. In this lesson, students will be introduced to literary role models, performers, and writing craft techniques that discuss meaning in poetry. This lesson includes an overview of the elements of poetry and offers students a way to learn how to use these elements by implementing them i
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Grades:
8th - 10th
Subordinating Conjunctions Lesson Plan Slides Journey's Reader's Notebook
This is an excellent way to chunk out your instruction of Subordinating Conjunctions. The Workbook pages mentioned are aligned with 3rd grade Journey's Reader's Notebook. I sell a subordinating conjunctions lesson that is not aligned with Journey's and has built in independent practice slide. Please message me if you are interested in me creating specific lessons for you!
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Direct and Indirect Characterization Peardeck
These slides contain definitions and interactive slides to help students understand direct and indirect characterization. I highly suggest using the Peardeck add-on, but they can be used without it.
Grades:
8th - 10th
Annotation Assignment: Exploring Taylor Swift's Fifteen
Introducing the "Annotation Assignment: Exploring Taylor Swift's 'Fifteen'" resource, a comprehensive tool designed to engage and guide students through the process of annotating lyrics from Taylor Swift's iconic song, "Fifteen." This assignment provides a valuable opportunity for students to deepen their understanding of the song's themes and literary devices while enhancing their critical thinking and analytical skills.This resource includes a step-by-step guide that assists students in effect
Example Essay "Person I Admire"
This is an example of an essay in paragraph format. Indented paragraphs and a heading with the creative title listed are exemplified in this sample essay. This could be used as an introductory essay for the beginning of school, because it allows students to demonstrate writing skills while focusing on a positive subject.
Grades:
8th - 9th
Introduction to Narrative Writing Slides
This slide set contains a mini-lesson on narrative writing. It is perfect to introduce your students to the concept or narrative writing and really get their creative juices flowing!
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Creative Nonfiction Breakdown
This Google slide digital resource is perfect for an introduction to Creative Nonfiction.
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Creative Nonfiction Resource Bundle
Creative Writing Strategies 3: Conflict
Use this discussion based PowerPoint to walk your students through:1) What is conflict?2) Why is it necessary in a story3) 5 types of conflicts and examples4) How conflict changes a characterThis is PART 3 of a series. If you are interested in something different, please check out the other sections:1) Show Don't Tell & Figurative Language2) Character Development3) Conflict4) Beginning and Endings 5) Plot and Story Structure6) Titles, Paragraphs and Dialogue7) Final Touches and EditingFIND T
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8th - 12th
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1st Person POV Writing Tips
I am using this to teach about 1st person for our Gothic narratives, but it can be used for any story using 1st person! I am also doing a word cloud activity on the board to help them with #3 Strong Word Choice... students will add to the cloud as they write!
Grades:
8th - 12th
Classic Plot Structure Notes
Half-page handouts (2 per page) that include information on classic plot structure. The outline covers: Exposition, Inciting Incident, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Resolution.
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Autobiography Writing Powerpoint
This powerpoint is a description of what an autobiography is and what makes an effective one. It includes a basic example and an improved version of the work.
Grades:
8th - 10th
Plot Structure Lesson
Plot is what keeps us interested in any story. Understanding how a story structure works helps you and your students to not only appreciate stories but also create stories! The lesson will bring you through what plot is, different story structures, their descriptions, and examples. What's type of plot is included: 3 Plot Structure5 Plot StructureHero's JourneyThe plot lesson enable students to examine and identify different forms of story structure.
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5th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Creative Writing Bundle
Writing: The Writer's Notebook
A printable/reproducible resource on keeping a writer's notebook. You can use this product as an introduction to middle school writing.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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5th - 8th
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