Creative Writing Lesson Plan on Clustering
Clustering is a great classroom tool for idea organization, writing, and studying. Use it to brainstorm ideas and overcome writer’s block in …
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Study Skills Strategies: Utilizing Clustering as Part of the Writing Process
Clustering helps students organize concepts and understand any academic subject.
Continue ReadingFirst and Third Person Point of View Explained: Use Mnemonics to Help Students Remember Points of View
Article provides an explanation of point of view
Continue ReadingWhat Does Foreshadowing Mean? Help for Teachers and Students
Help students understand the concept of foreshadowing by first discussing the definition and talking about the kinds of hints or foreshadowing authors …
Continue ReadingPersuasive Writing Skills : Use News Articles to Teach Persuasive Writing
Students like to read news articles that relate to their town or the overall country. There are always interesting events mentioned in the news and …
Continue ReadingSpark Your Students' Creativity at Halloween and Plan a Poem-Writing Lesson
Around Halloween you can keep your students’ attention if you build lessons around the holiday. Let students unleash some holiday spirit and at …
Continue ReadingTop Five Writing Prompts for Students in Fiction Writing
Students often have a hard time thinking of an idea to create a short story; thus they find writing prompts very helpful. If you give them a starting …
Continue ReadingSet Up a Hot Seat in Your Classroom for Understanding Character Motivation
Have students role play to help understand character motivation. This fun activity gives students a chance to practice public speaking and character …
Continue ReadingTeaching Shakespeare in the Classroom: Help Students Learn to read Shakespeare Aloud.
How will you know how to direct a Shakespearean play? The key, of course, is in the punctuation. Take a look at these lines from Romeo and Juliet, and …
Continue ReadingReading Comprehension Strategies: Understanding How Writers Organize
I used to lose my car keys a lot. One day my wife, while trying to hammer my skull to the wall, hammered a nail into the wood cabinet above my head. …
Continue ReadingElements of the Writing Process: How to Write a Rough Draft
After students have completed their pre-writes, they are ready to begin writing the rough drafts.
Continue ReadingHow to Edit the Rough Draft, the Fourth Step of the Writing Process
After students have revised, they are now ready for the fourth step in the writing process, editing.
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