For the following Power Verbs and Creative Writing Prompts activities, I like to have writing contests. The student that can best incorporate these words into a story or paragraph wins! I tell students that I want to see them experimenting with words while writing creatively. I encourage students to be their silly selves when writing. The goal is to make writing fun, playful, and experimental.
I write the contest winners on the board. Writing contest winners get privileges (extra lives in the games we play, and more). I also like to call home to tell parents that their child recently won a writing contest.
Overall, writing contests are a great way of creating a positive environment when it comes to writing and vocabulary.
Here is a Google Doc of Activities:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TO4hdhexSomJ0EZwxBLfwSkEpVCtZXSPCRk1Zl9Jg6E/edit?usp=sharing
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