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Middle school creative writing lesson videos
Creative Writing Assignments With Video Introductions - 5 Writing Activities
Transform your writing instruction with this innovative bundle featuring five captivating writing assignments designed to ignite creativity in your students. Each assignment is accompanied by an engaging hand-drawn video introduction crafted by the talented John Spencer, ensuring student engagement from the start. With topics ranging from personal narratives to school activity design and passion projects, these assignments offer diverse opportunities for students to express themselves and showca
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6th - 10th
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Ugly Dolls Lesson, Powerpoint, worksheet, scoring guide, sewing tutorial video
My students love when we do a project that involves sewing. Ugly Dolls are a perfect subject because you can also incorporate character education with it. The slide show introduces the Ugly Doll history and stories about some of the characters. Included is a lesson typed up the way my district wants, but you can alter it as needed. There is an Ugly Doll Lab worksheet that I have my students work on before they start sewing. It's a great way to tie in Language Arts. Last is a scoring guide I
Grades:
4th - 12th
Word of the Year Digital Vision Board New Year for Middle or High School
Set your students up with success for the year with this engaging and intentional back from break or start of the school year no prep activity: a Digital Activity to Set Intentions for the New Year. This is the perfect New Year or Back to School lesson that can be used for any subject area and for your students in high school, middle school, or upper elementary school. These slides work for in person or online learning! Videos allow the activity to be done asynchronous or in centers and allows f
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8th - 11th
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Travel Writing 5 Week Unit - 15 Lessons, PPT, Resources, Homework!
Thoroughly tried and tested (and fantastically creative!) 5 week unit on Travel Writing! Suitable for ages 11-16 and focuses upon writing to inform, persuade and describe, culminating in the creation of a brochure for a fantastical island of each pupil's design.
Includes:
* 15 lesson plans (with 16 differentiation strategies)
* 67 slide PowerPoint presentation
* All resources
* Homework project
Unit's lessons include:
* Travel-focused riddles
* Analysis of the travel poem 'Holiday Memory'
* W
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4th - 10th
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Number the Stars Writing Prompts - Video Clips and Journal Writing Topics
Number the Stars Writing Prompts Video Clips is a ready-to-use resource that will help your students make connections to their reading of Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. Students will watch a short video clip on YouTube that relates to a topic, theme, or idea presented in the novel. A related journal prompt is included and students share their thoughts and ideas in writing. The videos are not specific to the novel, but they relate in a way that allows students to make a text-to-self or text-to-w
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Number the Stars Unit Plan - Novel Study Reading Unit - Lois Lowry
Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Lightning Thief - Video Writing Prompts
Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Lightning Thief Writing Prompts Video Clips is a ready-to-use resource that will help your students make connections to their reading of The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. Students will watch a short video clip on YouTube that relates to a topic, theme, or idea presented in the novel. A related journal prompt is included and students share their thoughts and ideas in writing. The videos are not specific to the novel, but they relate in a way that allows stud
Grades:
6th - 9th
High School Diction Word Choice Lesson Shades of Meaning Activity Bundle
Do your students struggle with vocabulary and word choice when it comes to writing? Improve student writing with this engaging lesson on diction.Teach students about diction and shades of meaning through this interactive NO PREP lesson that will improve their vocabulary by expanding their diction while working on technology skills and creativity. This digital lesson and activity can be used for your students in high school, middle school, or upper elementary school with three options for differe
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8th - 11th
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PSA Script Writing Lesson - SDAIE Approved
This is the script writing lesson for my Award Winning PSA Unit. This lesson has helped my students garner recognition from all over the world. In fact, in December of 2013 my students created a PSA entitled, "Dear Sea World", which played internationally on CNN and inspired CA State Legislation. My students have also won or placed in many video contests in San Diego and the Los Angeles area.
I used this lesson for my SDAIE Certification course at UC Riverside and the Instructor is currently
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Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education
For Peace. Video Lesson. Writing. Creative Writing. Poem. Poster. ESL. EFL. ELA.
A nice lesson all about peace. Students watch a short video about war. After, they retell the story and answer the questions in response using the templates provided. Two PPTx presentations about peace (click the icons on the cover page to download separately). Also, templates for students to write a poster or poem to express their thoughts about peace/war. Plus, discussion questions about conflict and a template for students to express their thoughts about peace by making a poster. Student
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
A Wrinkle in Time Writing Prompts - Video Clips and Journal Writing Topics
A Wrinkle in Time Writing Prompts Video Clips is a ready-to-use resource that will help your students make connections to their reading of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. Students will watch a short video clip on YouTube that relates to a topic, theme, or idea presented in the novel. A related journal prompt is included and students share their thoughts and ideas in writing. The videos are not specific to the novel, but they relate in a way that allows students to make a text-to-self or
Grades:
6th - 9th
Composer Study: Michael Giacchino PDF Music and Film Lessons BUNDLE
Michael Giacchino Up Lesson: This lesson uses the opening scene from the 2009 Pixar movie Up to teach students about an important 20th and 21st century composer, Michael Giacchino.A primary objective of this lesson is for students to learn to use descriptive words when talking about music.They will start by first being introduced to Giacchino and the music he has written(The Incredibles, Jurassic World, LOST, Inside Out, Up, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Coco, and others). This gives students co
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Author to Classroom Direct TV: 7 Video Bundle
Invite John into your classroom via video with Author to Classroom Direct TV.John Heaton is the author of the Princess the Cat series, perfect for grades 3-6. Cat lovers of all ages purr and meow for her adventures!Each video is edited from the recording of a live Author to Classroom Direct Session.Videos are downloadable for upload to Google classroom or other online learning management systems. Or, the teacher can play them on their computer. When suitable, video modules include printable PDF
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Ancient Greece - Writing and Drama
Dive in, and learn about Ancient Greece with this combined Writing and Drama Lesson. Learn about the difference between a comedy and tragedy play, then use this knowledge to write your very own Greek Play.The main Resource for this Lesson is the FREE Lesson Video - Ancient Greece For Kids: CLICK HERE TO WATCHThe Lesson Video provides the background knowledge for the Activities in this Lesson.This Lesson belongs to The Touring Teacher Greek Mythology Unit Pack: CLICK HERE.
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3rd - 6th
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PART FOUR Sentence Variety Powerpt. w/ Video Clips Grade 5 6 7 8 9 Creative Fun
This 21 slide powerpoint is PART FOUR, the last one in a series of four powerpoints on sixteen different sentence structures.
--Can be used as a contest or game while learning, review or assessment.
--Students learn to "spice up" their writing, applying several complex and compound sentence structures instead of utilizing the typical subject-verb standard style.
Best of all, they have fun while writing.
--PARTS ONE, TWO and THREE also contains slides that walk students through four sente
Grades:
6th - 12th
Bold Beginnings-Videos Embedded-NO PREP-Leads-Hooks-Introduction, Mentor Text
Please provide any feedback or data that increases student achievement using this resource!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Dallas ISD #DTRThis Power Point is a fun and engaging way to teach our young writers about how to begin their writings with a BANG! This is part 1 which includes bold beginning examples with video clips or book cover pictures with its intro.The bold beginnings are:#1 Single Word/Idea:Sets off a short phrase or single word, then gives more information. (Examples from: Itchy, Itchy Chicken
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Grades:
1st - 6th
2. How To Write In 3rd Grade - Descriptive Paragraph - Mystery Room
A structured writing of a descriptive paragraph. Can you guess which room I'm describing?
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2nd - 6th
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1:23:55
How to Write an Awesome Topic Sentence: The Video Edition
Note: Some of my products have some “out there” ideas. Make sure to look at the preview before purchasing. Everyone's classroom is unique and while these lessons work within my classroom, that may not be the case in another’s room.
Many teachers or parents can sympathize with the following comment by their students or child when it comes to writing a paper: "I don't know how to start it." In my experiences, my students can give me plenty of evidence and reasoning details to support an idea; but
Grades:
5th - 8th
36:15
Teaching VOICE in writing
Hey hey!If you teach English, then you will know that getting students to find their writing voice is HARD.To give them an idea, I created this presentation where all of the information is written in different voices. I don't read it on the video - that's for you or them to do. Rather, I explain the slides and help them realise that there are a few things to know when creating voice.How you could use this in class:print a copy of the presentation for each student and have them highlight or annot
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Writing with VOICE
Narrative Writing Bootcamp Day 1 (Lucy Calkins Lifesaver)
This narrative writing bootcamp was developed after struggling to make the necessary gains using the Lucy Calkins program. It was developed after years of trying different techniques to improve narrative writing in my classroom. This is the first video in the bootcamp and introduces the structure of narrative writing. Students learn how to complete a narrative "brain dump" after reading a story. They will later create their own as a graphic organizer to plan their writing. This narrative wr
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3rd - 8th
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Ghost Tutorial Bundle Pack!
Now you can have access to both of these spooky resources to get the full effect of teaching this lesson! With the bundle pack you will receive not just the teacher tips and explanations from the videos, but also the creative kickstarters provided by the printable instructions. Plus when you buy in bundle, you’ll receive a great discount!The ghost tutorials show different techniques specialized for this particular lesson, and uses relatable dialogue which welcomes all skill levels to follow alon
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1st - 6th
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I Am Poem. Stereotypes. Culture. Nationalism. Creative Writing. Poetry. ELA
A unique lesson and activity. Students explore the topic of cultural stereotypes through poetry and writing a poem using the provided template.1. Ask students what some common ethnic stereotypes are. "All ......s are ...." 2. Watch the video "I Am Canadian" (commercial speech) and see if students can identify the stereotypes about Canadians. 3. Students write their own poem using the templates and share with the class. List all the stereotypes that come up! 4. Students learn about the symbols
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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7:31
Narrative Writing Bootcamp Day 6 (Lucy Calkins Lifesaver)
This narrative writing bootcamp was developed after struggling to make the necessary gains using the Lucy Calkins program. It was developed after years of trying different techniques to improve narrative writing in my classroom. This is the sixth video in the bootcamp and teaches students to show a character's emotions without telling the reader explicitly. Students will be taught how to use figurative language, sensory details, actions, dialogue, and thoughts to reveal a character's emotions
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3rd - 8th
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Animated Tutorial: How to use Embedded Clauses
Hello everyone, and welcome to Miss Tiffin's tutorials!This animated video tutorial is all about embedded clauses. It includes:1. The definition of an embedded clause;2. The definition of a main clause;3. How to spot an embedded clause and how to use on in a sentence; 4. Independent tasks for children to practise their skills.For an example of how our tutorials look, visit our website and click "How to use an Action Verb opener." It's a freebie :) Take care guys, and I hope you enjoy the tutoria
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4th - 7th
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7. How To Write In 5th Grade -Narrative- A time you had a day off from school
A classroom ready video teaching the narrative structure. CCS 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e, 4, 5, & 6.
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5th - 8th
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