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.
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Problem to Solution: Invasive Species
The Florida Everglades is being threatened by new and invasive species of plants and animals that have no natural predators. Write your solution to this problem.
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The Introduction’s Super Power
Introductions can be boring. Super boring. Learn how your students can powerfully engage their readers with this writing super power in their introductions.
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Maya Angelou and Figurative Language
The late Maya Angelou was poetic even in her prose. Use two quotes from her books to learn how to use figurative language to describe emotions.
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My Fellow Students: A Graduation Speech
It’s that time of year again when everyone is interested in the future–your future! Write your own graduation speech using shared memories, quotes, personal anecdotes, advice, and encouragement.
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Coupons
Here’s a fun writing prompt you can do with your children, and it’s all about coupons. After everyone has written, read your prompts to each other and be enlightened.
