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Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.
Blow up a paragraph into individual sentences. Now reassemble it. The clues hiding in each sentence will surprise you.
We’ll take two seemingly unrelated pieces of content (say volcanoes and the human body) and then build analogies to connect the two ideas. In the end, students can create a skit, comic, or story relating the two concepts.
We tell students to ‘show, not tell’ — but that advice is useless until they experience the difference. This lesson makes it click.
‘Add more variety!’ teachers say. But how? This lesson gives students actual techniques instead of vague advice.
Can your students fit a whole story into seventeen syllables? Now do it from inside a character’s head. Then once more, following the power.
Young students can use this big idea organizer to identify the main idea and support it with details.
Five idioms related to numbers.
Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about trains back into the correct order?
Read three pieces of writing from three different robots about the same beautiful painting of a volcano. Who wrote it best?
What is the Brick Pig’s philosophy? How would he apply it to the characters in Harry Potter?
Five idioms related to geese.
Three paragraphs about cucumbers. They all cover the same topic — so what makes each one different? Now combine them into one super-paragraph.
How many words can you find within Ireland?
Anyone can say a character changed. Your students will prove it: four details from the beginning, four from the end, and the two traits those details point to.
Five sets of idioms related to the color red.
When we try to solve a problem, sometimes we end up creating new problems. Which lead to new solutions. Which lead to new problems.
Look closely at Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons. What do you notice? Now turn those details into a poem you didn’t know you could write.
A passage from White Fang to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.
What happens when we switch out a “but” with a “so”? An “and” with a “for”? How can such tiny words make such big differences?
Can you write directions so clear that a group of kids can put a toy together with no illustrations?
A passage from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
What if a capybara and a kangaroo rat switched homes? Would their adaptations be helpful at all?
If your students’ stories are packed with endless ninja fights or arguments between frenemies, it’s time to expose them to a wider range of conflicts.
Strength and weakness are often two sides of the same coin. Students will explore how a character’s flaw can be a benefit.
Five idioms related to salt.
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?
Five idioms related to birds.
Three paragraphs about baseball. They all cover the same topic — so what makes each one different? Now combine them into one super-paragraph.
What if one character dressed up as another for Halloween? Would the Cat in the Hat pick Captain Jack Sparrow, because they’re both chaotic yet good-natured people? Would Elsa dress up as The Ice King since they are both lonely?
Five idioms related to the Greeks and Romans.
Can students spot similes vs metaphors?
How many words can you find within MENORAH?
It’s time to turn that outline into a storyboard and then some actual slides.
These clauses are sorted into two groups. What’s the rule? No definitions given — just examples.
What might a creature named “Hypermnemonicus” be like?
