Tutorials for Specific Types of Essays
SHARON'S BLOG Persuasion. How-to. Compare and contrast. Enumerative. Are your students baffled by these types of essays? Take heart! Use the 13 links you'll find below that show how to format and write 6 types of paragraphs and essays. As an added bonus, the last link...
Happy Birthday, National Park Service!
SHARON'S BLOG The U. S. National Park Service is over 100 years old! This bundle of prompts for 5th - 12th graders contains over a dozen creative writing prompts on parks: city, national, and international. For more information on the National Park Service, including...
Equip Your Students with These 11 Essential Writing Tools
SHARON'S BLOG Could your students use some writing tools? Your students have to come up with a paragraph or an essay, but they do not know where to begin. They do not know where to get ideas, how to formulate a plan, how to narrow down their topic, how to organize...
My Battle with the Homeschool Mom Comparison Trap
SHARON'S BLOG I was drowning. I needed help. My joy over homeschooling was robbed because I kept comparing myself to other homeschool moms. My comparison battle As a homeschool mom, I compared myself with other homeschool families. You know what I mean: reading...
What Skill Do You Want to Learn from a Pro?
SHARON'S BLOG What could Serena Williams teach you about smashing serves in the tennis court? Or maybe you'd like to learn from actor Dustin Hoffman about acting and "how to create memorable characters, rehearse a script and develop [a] comic instinct," according to...
7 Prompts about God
SHARON'S BLOG Can your children and teens clearly express their ideas about God? Students in my classes always have the hardest time when asked to write about God. They simply cannot share their thoughts, experiences, definitions of religious terms, or what God means...
A 100-mile Accomplishment
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Have you ever swum (swum? That's a word?) a mile? How about two or three miles? Diana Nyad, 64, made the more-than-100-mile trip from Cuba to Florida—by swimming the whole way! Hallucinating from exhaustion and hypothermia, stung by a jellyfish,...
5 Prompts for Independence Day
SHARON'S BLOG Picnics. Parades. Fireworks. Looking for ways to help your middle school and high school students focus on America's Independence Day? Look no further! Enjoy this variety of prompts {and your Independence Day celebrations}. 1. A Poem or Song...
Let There Be Light: The Power of One-Syllable Words
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Do you know how much we owe to William Tyndale? He knew he could be killed for what he was doing, but he did it anyway. Tyndale translated the Bible in the 1500s from Latin into the people's English so they could understand it, and it cost him his...
How to Fall Asleep. No, Really.
You might think this prompt is super boring, but hold on. It’s about to get really gross. Mathematician Gerolamo Cardano believed that to fall asleep, you should . . ., well keep reading. Then write an advice column to tell readers how to fall asleep.
Writing tools for all ages!
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