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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: Sylvia Plath: Creative Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Looking at three of Sylvia Plath's poems, students will be encouraged to think critically and create compositions that explore complex themes. [PDF]
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British Library

British Library: Robert Browning: Creative Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Looking at three of Robert Browning's poems, students will be encouraged to think critically and create compositions that explore complex themes.[PDF]
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Other

National Novel Writing Month

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Here's an interesting creative writing challenge. Write a 50,000 word novel between November 1 and November 30. NaNoWriMo has been orchestrating this challenge for several years now and the site has plenty of directions on the process,...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Exploring Adjectives Through Art and Creative Writing [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, students will use adjectives to describe artwork and to develop descriptive language in creating interesting and unique stories.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Building Creative Writing

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This simple activity will enhance the descriptive writing of primary aged children. By building upon each page of the flipchart over a period of several days, it makes the students more aware of nouns,...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Descriptive Writing: Similes, Metaphors, Cliches, Hyperbole

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on figurative language used in descriptive writing including similes, metaphors, cliches, hyperbole. It offers multiple links to websites pertaining to figurative language in descriptive and creative writing; an...
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Curated OER

Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Creative Writing

For Students 3rd - 8th
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Creative Writing."
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Ed "Not What It Seems"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes enhancing students understanding of metaphors, creative writing, and using life experiences to create poems and writing pieces.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "I Am Me"

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson plan includes promoting students' understanding of themselves through self-expression, critical thinking skills, and creative writing and thinking skills...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Utilizing Scientific Inquiry in Creative Writing

For Teachers K - 1st
In a writing workshop activity, students determine the specific dietary, habitat, and reproductive strategies of an organism through research and observation.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Dancing With the Math Stars

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a great math writing assignment. First, learners learn about the patterns and shapes of polynomial equations and their inverses by making their bodies imitate mathematical concepts, using popular disco & 80's dance moves....
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abcteach

Abcteach: Dinosaurs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource features a variety of activities related to dinosaurs. There are interdisciplinary tasks that include writing exercises such as creative writing and story planner formats. Lessons for...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Write Now! America Weighs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Video clip displays someone on a scale weighing themselves and asks students to write about what public schools should do, if anything, about the growing obesity problem in America. This is one in a series of creative writing prompts....
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Write Now! A Big Pot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short video displays several people stirring a large pot of stew, and the prompt at the end asks students to describe how they would make the same dish. This is one in a series of creative writing prompts. [0:38] W.9-11.12 Write Routinely
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Science Now! A Picture Is Worth

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A video clip asks students to explain how X-ray images communicate information. This is one in a series of creative writing prompts. [0:32]
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Using Specific Detail

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart promotes creative writing using supportive details. Students will explore examples from literature and consider ways to improve their writing.
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Braingle

Braingle: Mentalrobics Creativity

For Students 9th - 10th
Exercise your brain and creative thinking. Find daily questions, games, and ideas that will force you to brainstorm, create, imagine, and use your creativity on your own or in a classroom setting.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: All Dressed Up

For Students 9th - 10th
All Dressed Up shows a dog being groomed and asks the student to write a story about what the dog is thinking.
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Great Depression and the 1990s

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site includes a unit about the Great Depression. Students will create a creative writing based on Dorothea Lange's 1936 "Migrant Mother" photograph. They will also write a position paper on the United States' current welfare issue....
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: 20th Century and Modern Poetry: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to 20th Century and Modern Poetry. It focuses on disillusionment in British attitudes, World War I's influence on the literature, changing role of women in British society, and major writers of the time and their...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Japanese Mythology

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a comprehensive unit on Japanese Mythology including key terms, Japanese history including Buddhism and Shintoism, creation story animoto, creative writing, quizzes, tests, final assessment to create a business project as a...
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Plant and Animal Cell Worksheets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A free online site full of plant and animal cell worksheets for the busy educator! Included are Venn diagrams, KWL, mazes, puzzles, word searches, creative writing, and many other varieties of worksheets -- all focusing on plant and...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing Riddle Rhymes With Jean Marzollo

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Children's author Jean Marzollo will teach you how to write "I Spy Riddle Rhymes"! There is a teacher's guide included.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Weather Is Frightful

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students are asked to explain how climate and extreme weather events affect people's lives in this writing exercise provided by Science Now!

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