GETTING CREATIVE: Four Outside the Box Activities Design Your Own Machine English isn't always about writing. Students can design objects and things that can be worked into their story. Here is an activity that students can complete to get their creative juices going. Students need to create a machine, includes labels to explain how it … Continue reading GETTING CREATIVE: Four Outside the Box Activities
Tag: Creative Writing
Choose Your Own Adventure!
The Situation Your students find it difficult to develop ideas for their short stories. The Solution Writing does not always have been worksheets. In fact, I would steer clear from this as much as you can! Think of yourself as a student...what do you find interesting? How do you prefer to learn? An activity that … Continue reading Choose Your Own Adventure!
Visualization and Creative Writing
AITSL STANDARD: 1.5 - Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities Develop teaching activities that incorporate differentiated strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities. The Situation Often, I find that students are quite vague about where their story … Continue reading Visualization and Creative Writing
Narrative Starters
The Situation You want students to be creative and different with their writing, but they lack ideas. The Solution There are so many ways that you can get your students writing quickly! Here is one for free: when students come into the classroom, or if you just want to do a bit of writing, show … Continue reading Narrative Starters
The English Classroom 