CCSS ELA Standard: 2.W.5

When I see a quote, I often think, "That's not quite right!"

When we try to solve a problem, sometimes we end up creating new problems. Which lead to new solutions. Which lead to new problems.

What if we rewrote a story's climax into a totally different genre?

Let's write a holiday song about order and chaos!

Let's go roller skating in a Halloween costume! What could possibly go wrong?

Students will look closely at this old image and write a short, structured poem.

Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.

Have students mastered the art of anadiplosis: ending one sentence with the beginning of the next? Now it's time to take it to the next level!

Repeating words can be what you want, if what you want is an interesting effect. (Psst, that's an example of anadiplosis!)