Author: Brian Tolentino

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Students have to guess who said each quote. Pass out paper and play the video. Then pause when necessary. That’s it! Who Said It: Tupac or Shakespeare? Who Said It: Mark Twain or Shakira? Who Said It: Ernest Hemingway or Taylor Swift? Who Said It: Jane Austen or Drake? If you like what you see, …

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Encourage students to take risks with their writing. Tell them to EXPERIMENT with punctuation, an interesting hook, a new vocabulary word, a silly idea – anything. Teach them to have the audacity to try new things. Here is a video and worksheet on the topic: Worksheet: Here are related activities! Donate to Tolentino Teaching Here!

Writing that is littered with mistakes is hard to read. It just is. No matter how great your ideas are – errors in punctuation, spelling, capitalization and grammar will detract from your message. This is why I want my students to reflexively edit their mistakes. It should be normal to read over a sentence and …

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Students need to edit and rewrite the quotes by people of various professions: Anthropologists, Artists, Athletes, Composers, Economists, Historians, Poets, Psychologists, Scientists, and Education. The goal is for students to build the habit of editing conventions (basic grammar, punctuation, spelling, and capitalization). Many of my students turn in writing littered with convention mistakes. These worksheets …

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If you are looking for ideas to end the year right, check these out! 1) I have my students write the following prompt as a piece of creative nonfiction. I encourage students to dazzle their audience with a story. Worksheet: 2) Giving students the choice to choose their prompt really helped with this writing prompt. …

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