7 Awesome Halloween Writing Activities
Make October writing magical! Explore 7 Halloween writing activities that build creativity, description, and storytelling skills for grades 3–6.
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Halloween Writing Activity – 8 Scary Fairy tales Mini Lessons
Halloween writing activities offer so many opportunities to engage students in the writing process! If you’re looking for a fresh approach to narrative writing, why not have students put a spooky spin on a classic fairy tale? Reimagining Goldilocks and the Three Bears as a scary story can help students explore the elements of creative writing while
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Peer Review for Persuasive Essays
Grading writing is kind of the worst kind of marathon. If you can teach your students to take responsibility for truly revising their essays prior to submitting them, it can shave a whole lot of time off the work you have to do. More importantly, when they become active revisers, their work improves far more
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Writing Prompts that Inspire
There are lots of reasons some kids don’t enjoy creative writing. One of the most common is: I don’t know what to write about. The pressure of trying to come up with something creative and interesting on-the-spot is stressful. While that stress can sometimes lead to a great breakthrough, it just as often (more often?)
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5 Tips for Revising Persuasive Writing
You’ve gotten your students almost to the finish line of a persuasive or argumentative writing essay, when you realize some of them got it and some of them … not so much. Revising — well, that was the trickiest thing for me to figure out when I started teaching writing. (If you’re just getting started
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5 Ways to Inspire Wonder & Curiosity
Real talk: are your students truly filled with wonder & curiosity? Do you sometimes feel like you’re battling an onslaught of flashing lights and dopamine-drip screens, vying for your students’ attention? It can be frustrating to want students to open their eyes and take in the wonder of the non-screen world around them, and feel
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Do Your Students Love to Write? It’s Within Reach!
Which one sounds more familiar? My students look forward to writing every day, and frequently ask for more time to work on writing pieces. My students don’t write every day. When they are asked to write, many groan audibly in protest. In honesty, I’ve had both situations over the years. Through trial and error, I
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Teaching Persuasive Writing … Painlessly!
If you’re here, you’re about to teach persuasive writing unit. Or argumentative writing, or whatever the cool kids are calling it these days! Or maybe you’re already in the muck & mire of it wondering why your students aren’t producing organized and compelling essays. Many years ago, I caused myself — and my students —
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