There is something about scenery, travel, and music that stimulates ideas. Here is a video you can play as your students write. My students write in silence for 20 minutes every class. This video is 20 minutes for that reason.
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Creative Writing
Create a Fictional Character
Part 1: Create a fictional character. Part 2: Exchange your character with a classmate. Then write a creative story with your given character.
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The History of Rap (Vocabulary-Building Activity)
The goal of Paragraph Practice is to instill in students the following habits. The topics for Paragraph Practice are meant to be of high interest (Lionel Messi, rap music, etc). This ensures students have background knowledge or interest in the subject they are reading. The paragraphs are designed to be short. This allows students to focus on just one topic and one set of vocabulary words. The paragraphs are created to be bursting with academic […]
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Think-Write-Pass (3 Activities!)
Get your students writing hilarious stories as a class!
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Think-Write-Pass!
