TEKS ELA Standard: 1.11.C

Simon Beck’s Massive Snow Drawings

Extreme Closeup in Slow Motion

Frozen Soap Bubbles

Any Shape With Just One Cut

Mechanical Dinosaur Costume

Carved Pumpkin Stop-Motion

Fold a Tiny Paper Book

Backdraft in Slow Motion

Metal Lattice Light Enough to Sit on a Dandelion

Faig Ahmed’s Surreal Woolen Carpets

Popsicles Made From Polluted Water

Stop-Motion Animation Made With Leaves

Kid Invents a Seed-Launching Backpack

Tatsuya Tanaka Builds a Miniature Scene

Dude Perfect Archery Records

Lego Sun, Earth, and Moon Model

Hand-Painted Rock Portrait

The Lion King’s Giraffe Costume

Robot Fighters

Charles Schulz Draws Peanuts Characters

3D-Printed Zoetrope

Faux Shadows on Streets

Insects Made From Plant Clippings

Jetpacks Flying Over Dubai

Stacking Books on Rolled-Up Paper

Jackie Chan Portrait Made of 64,000 Chopsticks

Floating Ball of Water on the Space Station

Portraits With Globs of White Paint

Shredding Paper With Lego

Scythe vs Brushcutter

Mathematical Art Flip Book

Time Lapse of a Tiny Painting

Hair Dryer Kinetic Art

Mesmerizing Sand Patterns With Magnets

Marble Course All Around the Backyard

Improving Shakespeare’s Repetition

Let’s help William Shakespeare with his use of repetition.

Getting Specific With St. Patrick’s Day Writing

Let’s take a starting phrase about St. Patrick’s Day and get specific. No, even more specific!

Holiday Emoji Story ⛷️

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Holiday Emoji Story 🚚

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Emoji Stories 🐻

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Greekymon Studies – Round 3

What might a creature named “Aquacornus Rex” be like?

Greekymon Studies – Round 2

What might a creature named “Hypermnemonicus” be like?

Mother’s Day Cards

Let’s write the cleverest Mother’s Day cards you’ve ever seen!

Super Specific Similes – Strong Uncle

Let’s make this simile about a strong uncle even more specific.

A Halloween Costume Gone Wrong

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

Super Specific Similes – Slimy Broccoli

Start with a basic simile. Now make it more specific. Now even more. Watch how much better writing gets with each round.

Super Specific Similes: Loud Class

Let’s make this simile about a loud class super specific!

Super Specific Similes: Stinky Seaweed

Start with a basic simile. Now make it more specific. Now even more. Watch how much better writing gets with each round.

Squiggles Introduction

What do you see in this squiggle?

Squiggles Collection 1

Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?

Squiggles Collection 2

Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?

Lipogram: Rewrite “Mary Had A Little Lamb”

What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?

Lipogram: Rewrite “Twinkle, Twinkle”

What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?

Looking Closely at Holiday Photos

Let’s write from multiple perspectives using an old timey holiday photo!

Holiday Writing: Packing Crates

An old photograph. A holiday scene. Pick one object in the picture and write from its point of view.

Back to School: Rewriting The Beatles’ “Help!”

Can your students come up with a one-syllable word to sum up their time away from school? And then rewrite The Beatles’ song Help!?

Writing About Art: Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons

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.

Writing About Art: Impression, Sunrise

Look closely at Impression, Sunrise. What do you notice? Now turn those details into a poem you didn’t know you could write.

Writing About Art: Chōshi in Shimosha

Get your students writing some pretty darn impressive poetry based on Japan’s most famous artist.

Writing About Art: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

Look closely at Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. What do you notice? Now turn those details into a poem you didn’t know you could write.

Writing About Art: Twilight in the Wilderness

Look closely at Twilight in the Wilderness. What do you notice? Now turn those details into a poem you didn’t know you could write.

Create A Civilization: Currency

What type of currency will your civilization use? What symbols will be on it? Why are they significant?

Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite

Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”

Fancier Figurative Language: Move the Simile

What if we started a sentence with the simile?

Self Portraits: Text Art

What if a students’ self-portrait was made of words that describe the student!?

Writing Technique: Contrast With Synonyms

A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We’ll be contrasting two ideas using synonyms.

Fancier Figurative Language: Start with a Cliche

We’ll start with the cliché “as cold as ice” and go somewhere much more interesting.

Writing Clear Directions

Can you write directions so clear that a group of kids can put a toy together with no illustrations?