What’s Your Motivation?
What do you love to do? Sing? Cook? Play soccer? Tell jokes? What’s your motivation for doing it? Why do you love it so much.
How to Convince an Audience: Opinion versus Persuasion
Your students will learn the difference between opinion versus persuasion with this fun infographic about dogs and an easy writing exercise.
Drones: Helpful Tools or Accidents Waiting to Happen?
Drones (UAVs) can be used in putting out wildfires, transporting medicine, and checking on crops. They can also be crashed into crowded areas by amateurs with no experience. Should amateurs be allowed to use UAVs?
Family Writing Prompt: Is it Okay to Take Your Life When You’re Already Dying?
Read about Brittany Maynard’s decision to end her life because of her terminal brain tumor. Then read about Kara Tippett who is also dying from cancer. Write about these women and their decisions.
His Hands Were Bigger Than Shovels: Hyperbole
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Hyperbole is a lot of fun to read and to write. But what is it? Hyperbole (hi PER bo lee) is exaggeration, as in "He was as hefty as a whale" or "Her whining voice so electrified the air that it knocked migrating geese off their course." To read...
Writing Is Better When . . .
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Writing is hard. My students tell me this, and I believe them. Writing makes their hands hurt. They don't know what to write or how to write it. They have trouble coming up with topics. They'll write if someone gives them a topic they are...
Make Your Life Easier—Use This Writing Schedule for Students
SHARON'S BLOG Is there copious weeping when you say, "Write an essay"? Do your students get a pit in the bottom of their stomachs when faced with a writing assignment? When I was a little girl (yes, this was a long, long time ago), I had the same reactions when I was...
Never Do the Following
Rules. You find them everywhere, even on vacation. Make a silly or serious list of “Never do the following” advice for specific situations or locations.
Write a Story from an Animal’s Perspective
Let everything that happens be recorded from an animal’s perspective, just as Matriarch in Alaska thinks humans seem like water fowl. Funnel events through the animal’s eyes.
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with this Family Writing Prompt
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a short story by Colombian-born Gabriel García Márquez. Write a short story based on his “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.”
Writing tools for all ages!
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