With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
Part 5 of Super Specific Similes
Let's take a starting phrase about St. Patrick's Day and get specific. No, even more specific!
Part 4 of Super Specific Similes
Let's make this simile about a strong uncle even more specific.
Part 3 of Super Specific Similes
Students will make this slimy broccoli simile seriously specific.
Part 1 of Super Specific Similes
Let's make this simile about a quick baby even more specific.
Part 2 of Super Specific Similes
Let's make this simile about a loud class super specific!
Part 4 of Super Specific Similes
Students will make this simile about stinky seaweed super specific.
Part 1 of Writing About Art
Students will create a pretty darn interesting poem about Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons.
Part 2 of Writing About Art
Students will create a surprisingly good poem based on Monet's Impression, Sunrise.
Pi can go beyond circles! What if you wrote using the digits of pi as your guide?
Part 3 of Writing About Art
Get your students writing some pretty darn impressive poetry based on Japan's most famous artist.
Part 4 of Writing About Art
Students will look closely at a piece of art and then write a structured poem about it.
Part 5 of Writing About Art
Students will write about a beautiful painting from Frederic Edwin Church.
Part 2 of Fancier Figurative Language
Let's start with "As cold as fire."
Part 3 of Fancier Figurative Language
What if we started a sentence with the simile?
Can your students help The Bard? We'll fix five Shakespearean run-ons in three different ways.
Part 3 of Spice Up Your Writing
A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We'll be writing sentences with three dependent clauses.
Part 1 of Spice Up Your Writing
A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We'll be contrasting two ideas using synonyms.
Part 2 of Spice Up Your Writing
A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We'll be using antonyms to describe the same topic!
Rather than just demand that students "write clearly," we'll explore the hazards of poorly written sentences… and maybe create one of our own!
Part 4 of Fancier Figurative Language
Is your students' use of repetition limited to, "The girl was very, very, very fast."? Let's borrow some ideas from Shakespeare!
n this lesson, students will not just fix passive sentences, but break active sentences as they learn to put the star of the sentence first.
Part 3 of Ways To Start Sentences
We'll show students how to add more variety to their writing by starting sentences with gerunds, participle phrases, and absolute phrases.
Part 2 of Ways To Start Sentences
We'll show students how to add more variety to their writing by starting sentences with a reason, a prepositional phrase, and a simile.
Part 1 of Ways To Start Sentences
"Add more variety!" I'd say to my class. But I never really knew what this actually meant. Suprise! This bad advice never improved students' writing. In these videos, students learn nine specific ways to add variety just by changing the beginning of their sentences. This was easily one of my students' favorite writing tools - because it actually helped them.
Did you ever notice that the structure of an essay is very similar to the structure of a paragraph? Hmm…