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Descriptive Prompt: Precise Language

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Incorporate sensory details into a piece of descriptive writing. First, elementary and middle schoolers improve a piece of writing by using precise, vivid language, as well as appropriate word choice. They then listen to a variety of...
Writing
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Advanced Practical Writing - A Letter to your Landlord

For Students 6th - 8th
Looking for a letter writing worksheet? This worksheet provides a practical and realistic activity for your class. Learners write a brief letter to their landlord, who can be either real or imaginary, asking him or her to fix a problem...
Writing
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The Best Advice: Writing Paper

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this writing worksheet, students will write about the best advice they have ever received. There are lines on which students can write and tips for good writing at the bottom.
PPT
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Wind House

For Teachers 9th - 12th
While just a series of slides displaying a building that has fallen into disrepair, this presentation could be used as a writing prompt or as part of a discussion concerning the need to protect historical sites. The building is...
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Global Oneness Project

Learning with Nature

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Think outside the box - and think about education beyond the classroom walls - with a resource that has your critical thinkers watching a video about a nursery in Scotland that lets youngsters roam wild in a forest....
Lesson Plan
Global Oneness Project

Freedom to Change

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Here's something unusual and thoughtful: have your scholars do some pensive reflection themselves before tackling how such meditative techniques are used in prison rehabilitation programs. They watch the...
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Historical Presidential Campaign Announcement Analysis

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Using the announcements of presidential candidacies, pupils consider how contenders make their initial arguments to the public. A worksheet helps structure collaborative work to analyze 10 video clips. Writing prompts allow for extension...
Worksheet
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Creative Writing: Writing a Story

For Students 6th - 10th
In this creative writing prompt instructional activity, students respond to a writing prompt that requires them to include the 4 specific details that are listed and are inspired by the picture on the page.
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It's a Secret! Writing Prompt

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Young scholars write the ending to <i>It's a Secret</i> by John Burningham.  In this creative writing activity, students are read the first two pages of <i>It's a Secret</i> and they continue writing what...
Handout
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Essay Exams: Common Question Types

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Novice writers often struggle to determine what style of essay to write when given a prompt. This learning exercise helps to identify an appropriate form based on the language of the question. For example, key words like prove or justify...
Activity
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The Old Man and the Sea: Narrative Essay

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Finish a unit on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea with a narrative essay. Based on Santiago's harrowing adventures, the essay prompts readers to think about a time when they were faced with a challenge, overcame a...
Writing
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Tell the Story - The Cows Go Shopping

For Students K - 2nd
Will Casey get a can of clover? After examining the provided writing prompt about Casey's trip to the grocery store, young writers must decide what happens next and tell their story with words and pictures.
Assessment
California Education Partners

Vincent Van Gogh

For Students 7th Standards
Living in someone's shadow would be difficult for anyone, including one of the most talented artists of the modern age. Middle schoolers read an excerpt from Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan...
Writing
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Understanding Paragraph Basics

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Full of informative, helpful, and accessible activities, a language arts packet is sure to be a valuable part of your writing unit. It's versatile between reading levels and grade levels, and focuses on the most efficient ways for your...
Organizer
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Journal Writing

For Students 4th - 6th
Ask learners to keep a basic journal of any number of things with this graphic organizer. Kids write in a topic and write down four events, responding to the prompts in above each box.
Writing
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Story Starter: Stop Sign

For Students K - 2nd Standards
If you're looking for simple writing prompts for young children then stop right there, because we have what you need. Including a picture of a stop sign and four sets of handwriting lines, this exercise asks young writers to...
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Using Each Trait to Improve Student Writing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine examples of the qualities of good writing skills and discuss how each of the traits add to the process of good writing. A variety of excerpts from literature provide samples for the exploration.
Worksheet
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Writing Topics

For Students 4th - 5th
Finding a topic that engages young writers can be difficult. The four prompts offered by this resource focus on pets. Whether it be writing a story about an imaginary pet or about preparing for a pet, your pupils will find something here...
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Writing a Newspaper Article

For Teachers 6th - 9th
The perfect resource for a beginning journalism teacher or someone designing a journalism unit, this activity prompts young scholars to write a newspaper article. It covers all aspects of the writing process, such as a guided warm-up...
PPT
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Shorter Writing Task - Year 5

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young writers are given a prompt to construct a story around: "Imagine you are spending a night under the stars." The following slides invite learners to use all of their senses to help them create an engaging and interesting story about...
Lesson Plan
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Lesson Plan 10: Writing Really Good Dialogue

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Boring dialogue can run a great story into the ground; get your novelists using dialogue as a tool to move their story into deeper and more developed territory. As part of a larger writing series, this lesson has a worksheet that can...
Worksheet
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Wisconsin: Draw and Write

For Students 1st - 4th
In this Wisconsin draw and write worksheet, students draw a picture related to the state and then write about the state on the lines provided.
Worksheet
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Washington Writing Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this Washington activity learning exercise, learners draw a picture of something state-related and then write about the picture that they drew on the lines provided.
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Childhood Narrative Memory Writing Prompt

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this writing prompt worksheet, students are encouraged to write a narrative about a vivid childhood memory. They discuss why it was so important and why it was particularly memorable.

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