Playlist: Bookmarks
Depth and Complexity Frame Intro: Power
Where does your power come from? Students map the power in their own lives, the power they hold and the power others hold over them. Then they discover that power never sits still. It shifts over time, and much of what belongs to others now will move to them.
Depth and Complexity Frame Intro: Power (Primary)
Ask your students to name the most powerful person they can think of. You’ll hear about superheroes and presidents. Then they’ll build a frame all about themselves and discover that power hides in small places too.
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!
Halloween Emoji Story 🌕
Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?
Domesticated Animals Tournament
Which domesticated animal will win the tournament?
Thanksgiving Photo Writing
Starting with an old-timey photo, students will write from a particular item’s point of view.
Tournament: 8 Wonders of the Solar System
Which location is the most wondrous place in the solar system?
Not Like The Others: Rainforests
Which of these rainforests is not like the others?
Writing A Thanksgiving Letter
What if an inanimate object could express thanks for a special person in your life? What would it write?
What’s In My Brain: Cute Baby vs Fast Cheetah
Can students spot similes vs metaphors?
What Would Poetry Think About Prose?
Poetry and Prose meet at a party. What would they say to each other? How would they feel about each other’s style?
The Resiliency Tournament
Your students will set up a tournament to determine which person or character best demonstrated resiliency.
Universal Themes
★ Bookmarked • For TeachersUniversal Themes are an easy way to connect lessons, units, and content areas, even going across grade levels, and into students’ personal interests.
Creating A Classroom Motto
Starting with specific examples of fantastic classroom behavior, your class will end up with one sentence summing up their expectations. It’s a classroom motto!
A Grid-Based Fraction Project
You’ve got 60 spaces on a grid to create an amusement park, a house, a farm, or whatever you’d like. Divide it into seven pieces, order it by size, combine into two halves, and more in this fraction project.
Better Stories Part 2: Types of Conflict
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.
Better Stories Part 4: Character Archetypes
Are students’ characters a bit flat? Archetypes give them a strong foundation on which to build their own characters as well as a tool to analyze existing stories.