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Stone Soup: How to Submit Creative Writing and Art to Stone Soup
This resource accepts contributions from younger children, up through age 13. This page explains the process to follow when submitting contributions. Also at this site students will find a link to a sample issue.
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Abcteach: Dinosaurs
[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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Tate Online: Tate Tales
Let your imagine run wild when you select a painting from the Tate Gallery collection. Interpret the painting by making up a story about it. Let the painting inspire you to new heights of creative writing and then add it to the story...
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Pbs Learning Media: Write Now! America Weighs
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 Learning Media: Write Now! A Big Pot
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 Learning Media: Science Now! A Picture Is Worth
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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Fostering Academic Creativity in Gifted Students
What can teachers to do encourage gifted students to exhibit creativity in the classroom? This article provides some suggestions and also list ways that adults often "kill" creativity in children.
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Pbs Learning Media: All Dressed Up
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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Pbs Learning Media: Weather Is Frightful
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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Ad Cracker
In this website students can learn to create an international advertising agency. They will learn to write a brief, create a brand and position the product. They will also be introduced to the fundamentals of creative writing as well as...
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Write Away: Finding Your Voice
This article, written by a college creative writing instructor, gives advice about developing a writer's voice. There are six sections with specific suggestions for improving your writing. While the source of this page is a site about...
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Science Museum of Minnesota: Students as Designers
This site provides eight projects to use in an elementary classroom to encourage students to become inventors/designers. Invention, prototyping, materials exploration, creative writing, problem-solving, and group presentations are...
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Musical English Lessons
Learn English vocabulary and grammar through songs from a wide range of famous pop artists from the Beatles and Elvis to contemporary standouts like Avil Lavigne, Good Charlotte, and James Blunt. Find an exercise by grammar or vocabulary...
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Arles Office of Tourism
More than 5,000 pictures, maps, tourist information (lodgings, restaurants, real estate, shopping, description of the Crau and of the Alpilles regions surrounding Arles) and daily life (public forum, festivals, creative writing...
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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...
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The World of Calli & Graphy
Young students will enjoy exploring the world of calligraphy with these colorful illustrations, and easy-to-follow explanations. Follow the story of "Calli and Graphy," as they teach the viewer about this ancient art form.
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Storyboard That
Create your own storyboard with this interactive tool. The storyboard framework is a graphic organizer that helps structure students work into a linear and concise story. Although it feels easy at first, breaking down ones thoughts into...
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Sophia: Using Fragments Wisely
This lesson focuses on the intentional use of sentence fragments. It offers a YouTube video asking the viewer to spot the fragments, and a PowerPoint presentation listing 5 appropriate uses of fragments: to get the reader's attention, to...
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Scholastic: Teacher: Mystery Writing With Joan Lowery Nixon
Have you ever wanted to know how to write a mystery novel? Use this site to learn more about how a professional author goes about writing mysteries. With tips from prolific mystery writer Joan Lowery Nixon.
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Pbs Learning Media: Science Now! Agony of Defeat
A video clip asks students to explain how forces and motion affect the skier in the film. This is one in a series of creative writing prompts. [0:32]
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Pbs Parents: Creativity Haiku
Using this activity students can test their understanding of language and poetry by creating a Haiku using the word tiles in the box. Teachers and parents check out the interact, understand and expand buttons for more activities.
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The Dream Flag Project
This creative and collaborative project is centered around the poetry of Langston Hughes, and incorporates art, multi-cultural ideas, and student performance. The site is full of examples, information, lessons and explanation.
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Write4 kids.com
This site provides a great deal of information on writing children's stories. Contains "Advice, instruction, insider tips, insight and inspiration."
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Bedtime Story: Whimsical Stories for Reading
Awesome site with hundreds of stories by published and unpublished authors to encourage reading stories together and out loud. Each story also has a section titled "What's it all about" which gives background information along with...
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