It’s Not Just Your Parents
Parents often limit students’ social media habits, and not the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends limits as well. If you had to cut back on a habit, how would you go about doing it? Explain your plan.
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When a Product Outlives Its Usefulness
Products and services can outlive their usefulness to us, like the door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman. What product or service has disappeared in your lifetime? Do you miss it? What do you think will disappear soon?
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Middle School Prompts | Middle School Tutorial | Sharon's Blog | teaching aids | tutorial | Writing Prompts
Create a Character from a Photo
You want to create a character for your story, but you’re stuck. You can’t think of one. Use this trick to get you thinking about characters.
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Choose Your Own Team
The hot soccer competition in the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals is heating up. If you were to belong to a team, sports or not, what team would you choose? What would be the criteria for being admitted to the team? Which position or part would you play?
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Proofreading: Three Methods to Make it Easier
Proofreading is not easy, but we can make it a little easier for our students. Let them try these two proven methods of proofreading that professional writers use.
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The Talking Shoes
When was the last time your shoes talked to you? By using anthropomorphism, meaning “in the form of a human,” you can make objects or animals talk, plan, cry, and do other things humans do.
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Create Your Own Guide to Popularity
Popularity. What makes people popular? What does it take to be popular? Write a list of traits, habits, or qualities that seem to be true for popular people.
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3 Powerful Tools for Writing Persuasively
Writing a persuasion essay is all about the reader. Give your student these three powerful keys to writing that essay and enjoy the writing activity that follows.
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The Problem with Storage Units
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Self-storage units are springing up in the United States like mushrooms in a warm, shady, moist lawn. You see those units around town with the garage doors lined up in row after row and perhaps wonder what could be behind all those doors. When people have too much furniture or too many…
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Create a Warning
Did you know you shouldn’t spray Windex in your eyes or put your TV remote in the dishwasher? You did? Create your own warning to include on a product.
