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Your Dictionary: Creative Writing Lesson Plan Ideas
This article focuses on ideas for lessons to teach creative writing such as Brain-Scrambler, Five-Sentence Paragraph, Obfuscatory Sentences, and Two-Sentence Response.
University of Oregon
Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Creative Writing via Basket Stories
This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage learners in creative writing about items found in a basket. Examples of creative writing are provided. Examples of springboard ideas are included.
University of Oregon
Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Chain Stories
This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing chain stories. A variation of the activity is provided as an extension during the publishing phase of writing.
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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Magical Animal Encounter
This writing lesson is fashioned after Harry Potter's encounter with a communicative boa constrictor at the zoo. Inspired by Rowling's original idea, students will be asked to create a three-part story about an original magical animal...
University of Oregon
Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Name Poems
This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing personal poems. Examples of personal poems are provided. A template is also included as a graphic organizing support for students.
The English Teacher
The English Teacher: Teaching Basic Poetry
This lesson plan-tutorial uses "Beware do not read this poem" by Ismael Reed to teach students how to read and appreciate poetry.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Put That on the List: Collaboratively Writing a Catalog Poem
Using the structure of a list poem, learners combine creative expression with poetic techniques and language exploration in order to write group poems about what really matters in their lives.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Story Starting Participles
In this lesson, Roni Schotter's picture book entitled The Boy Who Loved Words is used as the mentor text. This Language Arts Common Core Standards-aligned lesson pre-writing task engages students in writing a collection of ideas of story...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Imitating a Newspaper's Voice With a Funny and Original Idea
In this creative lesson, students will create a voice for a tabloid feature within a fairy-tale world.
PBS
Pbs: Multimedia Storytelling (A Lesson Plan Family Memories)
A lesson for exploring the use of multimedia presentation techniques in effective storytelling. Design, write, storyboard, and create a multimedia presentation of a story about an important family event or memory.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco by Janice Repka
This lesson plan will lead students in relating literature to their own lives. The book, The Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco, will be read aloud to students. Afterward, students will create short stories about things which they'd like to...
TES Global
Blendspace: Toontastic Grate(ful) Biographies
This nine-part learning module provides support for Launchpad's Toontastic App. This blendspace shares videos, screen shots, and written resources that will help students write biographies via the Toontastic App.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Fact Families With Pictures
Learners will use pictorial models to write as many equations for each picture as they can. Multiple variations and extension ideas are included in this lesson.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Fact Families
As a whole class, the teacher presents young scholars with 3 numbers on cards, such as 5, 8, and 3. The teacher asks the students to find all the ways the numbers can be put together in addition or subtraction sentences. This...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Rookie Project
This is a three-part writing project which includes a research paper, a creative short story, and a movie review inspired by the movie, The Rookie. The lesson is easily adapted to other appropriate films of similar themes.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's Going on and Where Am I?
In this lesson, students write a descriptive essay about an historical event as seen through the eyes of an alien from a different planet and time. The lesson encourages the use of colorful and exciting adjectives, adverbs, and verbs in...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Jason and the Golden Fleece
Explore characterization, plot and setting and compare these elements in mythology and modern works of literature, film and television. Retell myths in modern settings or modern-day stories using a mythological Greek setting. While this...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I Am a Fish
This cross-curricular lesson combines research on an ecological issue with creative writing. After conducting research on an important environmental issue, students will present their findings from a different point of view.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.ee Miles to Kilometers
In this lesson, 7th graders write algebraic expressions and determine if they have the same answer.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A ced.a.3 and a rei.d.12: Fishing Adventures 3
During this illustrated lesson, young scholars will write and solve inequalities, and they will represent their solutions graphically. Aligns with A-CED.A.3 and A-REI.D.12.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Roll & Build
The purpose of this task is to give students practice representing two-digit numbers with concrete objects to reinforce the meaning of the tens digit and the ones digit. Directions and materials needed are included in the lesson.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Poets and Puppets: Learning English
Use these how-toos to help English Language Learners with speaking and writing. Using poetry and role playing with puppets unleashes creativity.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: My Own Kingdom
This lesson requires students to write a descriptive essay and make an illustration of their own imaginary kingdom and share with the class. This lesson can be done after reading about Leslie's and Jesse's kingdom from the book, Bridge...