ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Color Poems: Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting
Contains plans for four 50-minute lessons that ask students to use their five senses for poetry prewriting. In addition to student objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...
TES Global
Tes: Writing Bootcamp #1: Extended Free Write
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will write for an extended period of time. Students will engage in this silent writing activity to building their stamina and to increase their creativity.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Blogging With Photovoice: Sharing Pictures in Integrated Class
Photovoice is a technique that has participants take photos in response to a prompt, reflect on the meaning behind three of their photos, and share the photos to find common themes. It is an ideal strategy for all forms of classrooms,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Feature Story?fifteen Minutes (And 500 Words) of Fame!
Contains plans for five lessons that teach learners how to write feature news stories and the difference between feature and hard news articles. Students interview each other as prewriting for writing their own human interest stories. In...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Story Writing With Arthur
This series of 12 downloadable activities teach students some basics of story writing, using books or videos from the PBS "Arthur" series as a springboard. Activities include creating story maps, asking questions about characters and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Ab Cs of Poetry
Contains plans for a poetry lesson that asks learners to write poems after brainstorming metaphors and other ideas as a group. Ideas are groups by different themes, like letters of the alphabet. In addition to objectives and standards,...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Real Survival Skills
Learn about process analysis, writing procedurals texts, the steps of the writing process, and cause and effect in this unit. Also, examine patterns of organization in writing. A handy chart shows common organizational patterns which...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: 4th Grade Narrative Practice Prompt: Show Me Your Pride or Pleasure
This exercise assists fourth grade Nevada students in preparing for their fifth grade Writing Exam. This exercise was designed to serve as a pre-writing activity for one of our three designated fourth grade practice prompts. The prompt...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: 4th Grade Narrative Practice Prompt: Showing Amazement
This exercise assists fourth grade Nevada young scholars in preparing for their fifth grade Writing Exam. This exercise was designed to serve as a pre-writing activity for one of their three designated fourth grade practice prompts. The...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: 4th Grade Narrative Practice Prompt: Awards for a Deserving Person
This exercise assists fourth grade Nevada students in preparing for their fifth grade Writing Exam. This exercise was designed to serve as a pre-writing activity for one of their three designated fourth grade practice prompts. The prompt...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: 5th Grade Narrative Prompt: School Scenes in "Slow Motion"
This exercise was designed to serve as a pre-writing activity for one of their three designated fifth grade practice prompts for the state writing exam. The prompt is: Think about a time when something special or unusual happened at...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: 5th Grade Narrative Practice Prompt: Relevant Setting Details
This exercise was designed to serve as a pre-writing activity for one of their three designated fifth grade practice prompts. The prompt is: Remember a time when you did something that made you feel proud of yourself. Think about what...
Can Teach
Can Teach: Writing Prompts and Journal Topics
This site has hundreds of writing prompts/journal topics to get students started writing. Topics like "what is" and "what if" will get students thinking about what they could write.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Prepare to Write
Prepare to write by analyzing the requirements for the culminating task product for the application unit.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Prepare to Write
Conduct research to gather additional evidence to prepare to write.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Prepare to Write
Prepare to write by previewing the section diagnostic. This will help you understand the writing task.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Prepare to Write
Prepare to write by previewing the section diagnostic to help understand the task.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Prepare to Write
Prepare to write by previewing the culminating task for Romeo and Julie to help understand the task.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Prepare to Write
Prepare to write by brainstorming and determining the focus.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Prepare to Write
Understand how learning about the past in The Joy Luck Club allows the mothers and daughters to alter their perceptions of one another. Choose one mother and daughter's experiences from part four of The Joy Luck Club to use to support...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Parts One and Two
We will gather and organize evidence from parts one and two of The Joy Luck Club and the excerpts from Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother to prepare to write.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Organize Before Writing
Revise the organization of your writing to a prompt to make sure the structure is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Prepare to Write
We will prepare to write by analyzing the culminating task for A Lesson Before Dying guidebook unit. This will help us understand the task and prepare to gather evidence.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Prepare to Write
Prepare to write by posing and answering questions about the theme of isolation in A Lesson Before Dying.