Punctuation in Dialog
Do your students love to write stories but have no idea how to use punctuation in their dialog? Use this fun tutorial with exercises and answers to help them gain proficiency in this area.
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2 Fresh Summertime Ideas for Writing and Literature
Today’s blog is a combination of two blogs. Want some fun writing activities for your kids this summer? Are you interested in your children reading literature this summer but don’t know where to begin? Check out these two articles.
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3 Types of Poems for Poetry Month
SHARON’S BLOG Let’s give your students some practice in writing poetry! With these guided prompts, your students do not have to “sit down and write a poem” but will surprise you by creating something fun and maybe even memorable. Here goes . . .
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Fall-themed Writing Prompts
SHARON’S BLOG 10 Fall-themed Writing Prompts Colorful leaves. Pumpkins. Football. Cooler weather. Raking. Apple pie. Candles. What are signs of autumn to you? Students are more likely to write if the topics are related to something that is going on at the moment, so let’s cash in on the season by using these fall-themed writing prompts….
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How to Develop an Almost Painless Reading List for Teens and Tweens
SHARON’S BLOG Do you hear that thunder? It’s the crash of schoolbooks slamming shut for the summer. As a parent, you want your children to continue using their reading skills. You know there are so many wonderful books they would enjoy reading now that it is summer and the distractions are fewer. Treasures await them….
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Happy Birthday, Ray Bradbury!
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Ray Bradbury, author of Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451, was born August 22, 1920. Though he’s been gone for a few years, we still celebrate this man who helped make science-fiction the respected genre it is today. Many years ago, Ray Bradbury wrote the short story “The Veldt” with an intriguing kids’…
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Celebrate National Poetry Month with Joyce Kilmer’s “Trees”
SHARON’S BLOGAll this month we’re celebrating National Poetry Month with famous poems worth knowing. Be sure to check out the many links at the end of this post for more poetry appreciation and practice! What is today’s poem? Joyce Kilmer’s “Trees.” Here are the first two lines: I think that I shall never see A poem…
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Explore Poetry with “Birches” by Robert Frost
SHARON’S BLOGHave you ever come across something unusual and wondered how it got that way? Robert Frost in his poem “Birches” does just that. He finds some birches in the woods that are bent down and wonders what happened to make them curve down. Did a boy come by and climb them, bending them down?…
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Use Poetry to Cope with a Traumatic Event
SHARON’S BLOGHas something traumatic ever happened to you or your family? When Anne Bradstreet’s house burned down, she was heartbroken and wrote a poem about it. Read her poem below in which she pours out her grief, her pain upon losing everything, and what she learned from this terrible situation. What is unusual about this…
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6 Literature-Based Writing Prompts
SHARON’S BLOGLiterature holds an Aladdin’s cave of treasures that students can plunge their pens into. Whether it’s imitating good writing, pondering a topic in the story, or using the story to write another, your students will gain a healthy curiosity for great works of literature as they write. To enjoy these fun prompts, knowledge of…
