Two Kinds of Writing Assignments for Student Essays and Reports 1. The topic has not been assigned. Students choose the topic. 2. The topic has been assigned. Students must follow the directions and stay on topic. Teachers must find the right balance between these two methods when giving assignments. These ideas will help when you do [...]
Diamante Poems | Rhyme Schemes | Rhymes | Acrostic Poems | Quatrains | Haiku | Limericks | Clerihew | Tanka | Free Verse | Simile | Metaphor | Alliteration Combine teaching these pattern based poems with the “Pattern Based Writing: Quick and Easy Essay” writing program and your students will be both highly effective and [...]
Should You Teach Your Students to INVENT a Good Story, or to TELL a Good Story? The truth is that there is very little difference between a personal narrative essay and a fiction story. After all, who doesn’t look at a fiction story and then look at the author and say, “Oh, I didn’t know…” [...]
The Research Shows Series: Elementary School Creative Writing What is creative writing? Poetry is considered creative writing. That should be no surprise! Where things get tricky is “narrative writing.” At its heart, a narrative is a story. Stories can be true and they can also come from the imagination. What’s the difference between a true [...]