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7 Prompts on Wisdom
BySharon Watson April 22, 2018

SHARON’S BLOGLet’s use a quote from Confucius and a passage from Proverbs to get your students thinking about wisdom. In this bundle of writing prompts centered around wisdom, your students will encounter these types of writing: opinion, personification, parallel construction, definition, and more. These prompts are just right for students in grades 5 – 12. So,…

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5 New Prompts for a New Year
BySharon Watson January 1, 2017

SHARON’S BLOGThe beginning of a new year is a special time when your students can look back on their past year and cherish their hopes and dreams for the future. But do they know how to express those? Here are five prompts geared to help them express their ideas through opinion, personal narrative, personification, and…

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Write a Story from an Animal’s Perspective
BySharon Watson October 12, 2014

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.

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The Talking Shoes
BySharon Watson June 22, 2014

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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Maya Angelou and Figurative Language
BySharon Watson June 1, 2014

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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