Middle school creative writing lesson interactive whiteboards

Handouts, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

W.7.1

, W.7.2

, W.7.3

, W.7.4

, W.7.10

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Descriptive Writing Activities & Examples - 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th Grade

Created by

Kathryn Robinson

This packet contains two unique hands-on descriptive writing activities for 3rd through 6th grade students. The first activity, Spice It Up, is designed to help students during a quick editing process (such as during a writing assessment) to replace their 'run of the mill' vocabulary with more effective word choices to influence the reader. This activity has students working in teams with the vocabulary cards (templates included) to create a list of synonyms to improve their writing. The se

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Vocabulary, Writing

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Memoir/Personal Narrative Bundled Writing Lessons

Created by

Catherine Devins

This is a zipfile which contains 14 lessons to teach all parts of writing a Personal Narrative/Memoir. The sample /preview only shows part of the lessons as the entire file was too big to download in the preview folder. In the preview there is a detailed lesson plan that describes all the parts of this bundled lesson. Each of the lessons are numbered in sequence for ease of use. The introduction discusses what makes a Personal Narrative and the subsequent lessons are full of Smartboard and Po

Subjects:

PowerPoint Presentations, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Grades:

2nd - 6th

Types:

Writing Strong Endings for Narratives using Mentor Texts

Created by

Bethany Hunter

Do your students struggle to write a strong satisfying ending to their stories? I know my students do! I created this SMARTboard presentation to use with my students. The presentation starts by covering the most common endings we want to move our kids away from, and then walks them through how to write a strong ending using mentor texts.

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, English Language Arts

Common Core Writing Fifth Grade Personal Narrative Flipchart

Created by

Fifth Grade Fundamentals

This is an Activinspire flipchart for use with a promethean board or Smartboard. It is 34 pages long! It includes many objectives for CC fifth grade writing including W5.3a, W5.3b, W5.3c, W5.3d, W5.3e, and W5.5. This is interactive with think/pair/shares and slides where students write on pages and write in their writing notebooks. It goes along with a writer's workshop or Lucy Caulkins approach to writing a personal narrative with "writing seed ideas" and "small moments" and also goes throu

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Activboard Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

W.5.3a

, W.5.3b

, W.5.3c

, W.5.3d

Solar System Lesson plans + resources (Earth, Sun and Moon)

Created by

KG Resources

Teach children all about the Sun, Earth and Moon with this block of differentiated lesson plans and resources. These seven lessons take children on a journey from the developing understanding of the Solar System models to writing their own reports. Lesson One - Reading comprehension task learning about the geocentric and heliocentric models Lesson Two - Developing understanding of the Earth's orbit Lesson Three - Developing understanding of the Earth's orbit and rotation Lesson Four - Develop

Subjects:

Astronomy, Close Reading, Creative Writing

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

The Middle School Classroom

Realistic Fiction Writing Unit Smartboard

Created by

This is an outstanding unit you can use with your students to help them write well developed and interesting realistic fiction stories! The minilessons in this unit include: 1) Goal Setting and Generating Ideas 2) Imagine Stories from Ordinary Moments 3) Imagining Stories We Wish Existed in the World 4) Drafting My Writing 5) Story Mountains 6) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of Our Story 7) Developing Believable Characters 8) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivation 9) Show, Dont Tell 10) Gr

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Creative Writing: Describing a Winter Setting

Created by

Creative Writing, Grammar, Writing

This resource focuses on describing setting during creative writing.It begins with a starter which focused on personification and teaches learners how to use personification and create it.The resource then shows a number of winter settings and encourages learners to describe the setting using the five senses. This can be printed as a page for learners to complete independently or in small groups. Alternatively, it can be completed as a whole class on the interactive whiteboard.The resource then

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 10th

Types:

Imaginative Writing: The Chinese Dragon

Created by

Creative Writing, Holidays/Seasonal

This Chinese New Year is the year of the dragon so the writing focus is going to be on a character description of a Chinese Dragon.This resource explains the five different aspects of a character that pupils should describe in order to successfully convey their character to their reader.It also provides a modelled text, and a table worksheet for them to record examples of each aspect from the text. This will help give them inspiration for their own story.

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 10th

Types:

Worksheets, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Informal Email

Created by

Jay Ama

In this lesson, your students will learn about the meanings of the words "informal" and "email". They will also practice and improve their reading skills by using various techniques. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to plan and write their emails.

Subjects:

Creative Writing, EFL - ESL - ELD, Reading

Grades:

5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

Types:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Halloween

Halloween Character Traits SmartBoard Vocabulary Activity No Prep

Created by

HappyEdugator

Halloween Writing Activity for Smartboard. Halloween digital resource - writing motivator and vocabulary activity. Five different Halloween characters - vampire, ghost, scarecrow, skeleton, and witch. On the interactive whiteboard, students can drag the character traits they want for their chosen Halloween character into the box. They then can name their character and, in their journal, show, not tell, how their character demonstrates the traits they chose and elaborate on the character. They c

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

CCSS:

W.5.2b

, W.5.2d

, W.5.3d

, CCRA.W.6

, CCRA.L.6

Six-Traits of Writing Bundle

Created by

Arrrsome in Fifth

This Zip-file contains all five of my Six-Traits of Writing Lesson files. Four are in Power Point format and one is a SMART file. Each presentation includes everything you'll need to teach one of the following traits: Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Voice, and Sentence Fluency. Please check out my TPT store, Arrrsome in Fifth, for the individual Six-Traits items. You'll save over $5 if you purchase the bundle!

Subjects:

Interactive Whiteboard, Posters, Lesson

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Imaginative Writing - The Chinese Dragon

Created by

Creative Writing, Holidays/Seasonal, Writing

This Chinese New Year is the year of the dragon so the writing focus is going to be on a character description of a Chinese Dragon.This resource explains the five different aspects of a character that pupils should describe in order to successfully convey their character to their reader.It also provides a modelled text, and a table worksheet for them to record examples of each aspect from the text. This will help give them inspiration for their own story.This resource includes the main lesson, t

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 10th

Types:

Worksheets, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Holiday Writing Around The World.

Created by

Captivating Kids

Holiday writing around the world’ is an engaging, interactive map tool designed to immerse students in festive traditions of Christmas from various global perspectives. As they navigate the digital globe, they can zoom in and out, discovering markers scattered around 6 countries: Australia, USA, Canada, Mexico, France and the UK. Each click will reveal a unique story, written from the eyes of a child from that specific location who shares their Christmas traditions, culture and spirit. This is a

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Reading, Writing

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Reflective Writing - The Best/Worst Day of My Life

Created by

Reflective Writing - The Best/Worst Day of My LifeAs pupils progress in their writing, it is important to teach them how to progress their basic recount writing into reflective writing. Rather than just retell events pupils will describe their thoughts/emotions and reflect on how these events impacted them positively or negatively. Pupils really enjoyed this writing piece and I emphasised that it didn't have to be a hugely emotional experience which could upset them. The pupils had recently visi

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 10th

Types:

Arts & Music, Creative Writing, English Language Arts

Language Techniques - Persuasive Language

Created by

Steve English

Lesson plan and PowerPoint on Language Techniques and Language devices e.g. alliteration, hyperbole, power of 3, facts etc. The students all seem to enjoy this lesson which has the videos and resources provided. The writing activity based on the TV show 'Goldenballs' always goes down well too!! Text 1 - http://youtu.be/RS4Z61TpCyI Text 3 - http://youtu.be/PCV_koyJ1Fk Goldenballs clip - http://youtu.be/p3Uos2fzIJ0

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 12th, Higher Education

Types:

Creative Writing, Gifted and Talented, Writing

Show Don't Tell for PROMETHEAN Board

Created by

Catch My Products

Do your students use too much telling when writing? If so, here is the lesson to up their writing skills. Challenge and engage your students with this Promethean Board flipchart that helps kids understand the value of showing in writing and to practice the skill. This standards based lesson, from Catch My Products, gives the students plenty of opportunities to practice writing skills.Inside you'll find:I can statement and standardsModeling of skillGame to practice showingSix writing challengesCh

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Activboard Activities, Literature Circles, Lesson

CCSS:

W.3.10

, W.4.10

, W.5.10

, W.6.10

, W.7.10

Also included in: Writing Lesson Plans Bundle PROMETHEAN BOARD Version

Features of a Newspaper Article

Created by

Creative Writing, Writing

This resource teaches learners how to write a newspaper article by looking at the main features.It coversNames of newspapersHeadlinesBylines/leadlinesFormal toneIt provides various examples and teaches learners how to identify and use each feature.

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 10th

Types:

Six-Traits of Writing: Sentence Fluency with Smooth Transitions

Created by

Arrrsome in Fifth

This Sentence Fluency lesson concentrates on effective transitions using the popular mentor text, Meanwhile by Jules Feiffer. The 20 slide SMART file contains 8 days of lessons, activating and summarizing strategies, detailed instructions, graphic organizers, handouts, examples, opportunities for peer and teacher conferencing, scoring rubrics, links to videos, and interactive activities. It's everything you need to teach an engaging lesson on sentence fluency using effective transitions.

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Creative Writing, Poetry, Reading

Figurative Language Relating to Poetry- Common Core Aligned

Created by

Teacher Creature

This highly interactive lesson introduces students to figurative language and shows them how by using it an author is able to express their own style in their writing by painting a picture in the reader's mind. It uses poetry examples to assess the students learning, and offers as many examples to practice on as your students will need! Reading poetry and understanding it is so critical in the Common Core Standards! This adds SO much to my reading lesson, especially when poetry is being read!!!

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson, Centers

Writing - Information Text on Birds

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