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Short on time? These writing activities are sure to spark creativity in your students.  Perfect for a sub plan, a shortened class period, or a pocket of time when you want students working.  Great writing workshop activity as well.  Quick write activities that will keep students motivated.  Easy lesson with free story starters! #lessonplans #writingworkshop #writingprompt Teaching Middle School English, Fifth Grade Writing, Motivational Activities, Literary Writing, Creative Writing Lesson, Fun Writing Activities, Creative Writing Activities, 5th Grade Writing, Quick Writes

Short on time? These writing activities are sure to spark creativity in your students. Perfect for a sub plan, a shortened class period, or a pocket of time when you want students working. Great writing workshop activity as well. Quick write activities that will keep students motivated. Easy lesson with free story starters! #lessonplans #writingworkshop #writingprompt

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Quick Writes For 3rd Grade, Art Grade 4 Ideas, 3rd Grade English Lessons, Quick Writes Middle School, Quick Write Ideas, Writing Lessons For Third Grade, Daily Quick Writes, Grade 4 Writing Prompts, Writing Prompts Third Grade

Hi Friends! Confession time…writing is my LEAST favorite subject to teach. I know, I know…teachers shouldn’t have favorites! In all seriousness, teaching writing to first graders was not my favorite subject to teach. I was in a place where I thought, “If it’s boring to me, isn’t it boring for them?” I desperately needed to spice things up. That year I made it my professional goal to improve my writing instruction. I spent time reading, researching best practices and developing a system that…

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You're in the middle of your writing block during the day and students are sitting at their desks (maybe on the floor or in bean bags dispersed throughout the room) writing. Smoke is coming out of their pencils. They are writing epic stories about dragons, or spaceships -- or something equally as epic. This is your classroom every day, right? (Not) "I don't know what to write about!" (now that's more like it!) At least that's what *I* used to hear a lot. Well, no more. Give even those most…

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Whether you call quick writes your warmup, a focused writing prompt, writing into the day, or simply timed writing, a quick write has a range of possibilities that are just plain cool and useful in the English classroom. I adhere to the definition that Linda Reif uses in her book The Quickwrite

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Formative assessment 10/10 - Quick Write Prompt. The quick write can be used as morning work or as an activity to allow the students to revisit and write about a lesson or topic they previously learned or currently learning to check for understanding. This gives the teacher the chance to assess students’ understanding, while also allowing the students to self assess based on the amount they are able to write on the topic. Ell Activities, Writing Time, 5th Grade Writing, Primary English, Quick Writes, 3rd Grade Writing, Class Activity, 4th Grade Writing, Writers Workshop

The curse of Writer's Block can be REAL. And writer's block can really frustrate our students. When this happens, we need strategies to help students push through writer's block to keep going through the writing process. Check out this list of 8 strategies to help students break through writer's

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1. Attach an image (photo, magazine, etc.) to a notebook page and write about it. 2. What things will people in the future say about how we live now? (Examples: They ate that? They believed that?) 3. Pick one from each list to make a creature and animal combination. Now write a short story or scene in which this creature appears. List 1 List 2 Vampire porcupine Ninja armadillo Zombie pig Pirate goat Mummy lobster Clown possum Banshee shark Wraith moray eel 4. Imagine a future in which we…

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Upper elementary descriptive writing activities. Includes anchor charts for expanding sentences and descriptive writing prompts.

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