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Cartoon Dialogues
Writing dialogue can be the trickiest part of creative writing. Ms. Russell introduces her third-grade students to this writing skill by using cartoons with blank thought bubbles.
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Complete Stories
Ms. Pearson breaks down the parts of a story using strips of colored paper glued on a white copy sheet. Adopt Ms. Pearson’s cut and paste method to write color-coded holiday stories and decorate your classroom from top to bottom (or beginning to end)!
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Creative Research Papers
When my students write research papers, they do so with a unique twist. Tired of reading mundane topics, I revamped the assignment. Now, each student must research a year in history. In order to avoid...
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Dinosaurs in Language Arts
Spring into the world of dinosaurs! Ms. Loomis weaves together her social studies and language arts curriculum with unique activities based on a book about dinosaurs.
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Drawing Monsters and Writing Details
Try this fun activity for the Halloween season that combines drawing and creative writing to teach young students how to write dialogue.
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Feature Stories
Mr. Whary’s unit on feature writing includes interviewing activities: a short, warm up activity in which student practice interviewing before moving on to longer, more substantive interviews.
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Holiday Writing
Ms. Murphy has a great bookmaking activity for the week leading up to winter break. Based on the popular Chicken Soup book series, the project includes writing essays, poems and word puzzles. The finished product makes a great gift for a family member.
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Impromptu Plays
Ms. Herring plans an “out-of-desk” activity that’s fun for students and easy for substitute educators to deliver. Find out how she prepares for unexpected absences with a great bag of tricks any teacher would love to use.
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Integrating Hansel and Gretel Across the Curriculum
I read Hansel and Gretel to my class and then we graph colors and shapes. The students' objective is to make a pattern of shapes and colors showing how they would get from their house to the witch's h...
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Love-Hate Journaling
This retired teacher always had a love-hate relationship with student journals. They were time consuming but valuable teaching tools. With a list of imaginative writing prompts, she made the most out of them.
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