Your students will learn the difference between opinion versus persuasion with this fun infographic about dogs and an easy writing exercise.
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Writing is hard. My students tell me this, and I believe them. Writing makes their hands hurt. They don’t know what to write or how to write it. They have trouble coming up with topics. They’ll write if someone gives them a topic they are interested in. Or if someone gives them…
Rules. You find them everywhere, even on vacation. Make a silly or serious list of “Never do the following” advice for specific situations or locations.
Let everything that happens be recorded from an animal’s perspective, just as Matriarch in Alaska thinks humans seem like water fowl. Funnel events through the animal’s eyes.
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a short story by Colombian-born Gabriel García Márquez. Write a short story based on his “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.”
How do you narrow down a topic that is too large? Find out how in this prompt as you narrow down the topic of fire for Fire Prevention Day.
National Poetry Day is this week, and this year’s theme is “Remembering.” What will you remember as you write your poem? What event, person, or object will you write about?
This tutorial shows your students the universal proofreading marks and how to use them. Plus, you’ll get examples and an exercise to reinforce the information.
The dialog in comic book speech bubbles is different from the dialog in books. Change the dialog from a book into words that will go into speech bubbles.
It’s tough to come up with ideas for essays. Where do you find the topics? Try this strange way of developing ideas for essays using your own initials!
