Articles by Brian Tolentino

Story Prompts

Here’s a set of creative writing prompts that have worked well with my students. The protocol I follow is this: My goal for these activities is to CELEBRATE ideas, and provide simple feedback on student writing. This typically consists of talking to individual students about punctuation, transition words, and more.  I keep feedback SIMPLE–one thing at a time. And I keep things mostly positive. At the start of the year I am trying to get […]

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