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Exit Tickets
Teachers use exit tickets as a quick and effective way to assess student understanding, gather feedback, and guide future instruction. However, I also use them as a tool to build connections with students and to reinforce the skill of restating the question in their responses. Sometimes, I even include random or silly questions to wrap up class. This not only keeps things fun but also gives students an opportunity to practice restating prompts while writing. Here are
5-Minute Flash Fiction Frenzy! (Write With a Partner)
Just play the video, pause when needed, and pass out a worksheet for each story. That’s it! Worksheet for video: More creative writing prompts here: Donate here:
Is the End of the Period Imminent?
Video: Worksheet: New York Times Articles:
10-Sentence Emoji Story Challenge!
Worksheet Here: More emoji activities here: Donate here:
Ad Populum Fallacy (Appeal to Popularity): Lesson and Activity
Video Explanation Here: Worksheets: Donate here:
10-Word Stories (Flash Fiction Fun)
Creative muscles need to be built. The more we exercise our creativity with words, the more persuasive and precise our ideas will become. For the following activity, you need to write a ten-word story for each picture. And by ten, I mean exactly ten words. Not nine. Not eleven. ten. Writing ten-word stories–you see–is an intensely creative task. To capture the complexity of a story in such few words seems impossible. It forces you to