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4 Writing Activities for Celebrating Black History
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4 Writing Ideas for Creative Classrooms
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5 Fun Creative Writing Activities
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8 Mindful Writing Habits (and 16 Prompts!)
Writing Topic
A narrow escape from trouble
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A time that was just not fair
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A trip to a space station
Blog Post
Awaken Creativity—and Students
Minilesson
Create a Memory Palace
Use spatial awareness to improve memory.
Student Writing Model
How the Stars Came to Be
Sixth-grade student Laura wrote this fantasy in which the “storybook” voice sets the tone appropriately.
Blog Post
How to Engage Your Students with Shared Inquiry
Writing Topic
How _ came to be.
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If I lived back in history
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If only I would have listened!
Books
Inquire Middle School
Books
Inquire Middle School Teacher's Guide
Writing Topic
Life among the cloud people
Student Writing Model
Limadastrin
A response to literature can take many forms other than a book report. Sixth-grader Mark decided to respond in a poem patterned after the poetry he read in the Redwall series of fantasy books. (These stories are about peace-loving small animals who exhibit human characteristics in a medieval setting, facing day-to-day struggles of good versus evil, life versus death.) The author of the Redwall books never mentions where the “Badger lords” come from, so Mark created this fictional place called Limadastrin and describes how one would find it.
Student Writing Model
Linden’s Library
This model is based on an original story submitted by Elise, a sixth-grade writer. Note how she uses dialogue and details to bring her characters to life.
Writing Topic
Long ago and far away
Minilesson
Make Abstract Ideas Concrete
Make concrete representations of abstract ideas.
Blog Post
Mapping Your Writing Process
Writing Topic
Meeting myself in the future
Student Writing Model
My Backyard
Kevin, the sixth-grade author of this poem, effectively uses personification to paint a vivid picture of his backyard.