Six Things. Convince Me: Real-Life Uses for Persuasive Writing. Elements of Language: Model Bank Home. Daily Writing Prompts. As always, The Teacher's Corner is looking for ways to make your life easier. We hope that our newest addition, “Daily Writing Prompts,” does just that. On as many days as possible, we have selected an event from our monthly event calendars to be the focus of the writing prompt. These writing prompts can be used in a number of ways: Daily warm-up activity Practice in prompt writing for state assessments Daily/weekly writing prompt “Anytime” activity Student work center “When You’re Done” activity Substitute teacher activity One added advantage to TTC’s “Daily Writing Prompt” is that they can easily be displayed through an LCD projector in your classroom. This eliminates time you would have to spend at the copy machine.
All of the prompts can easily be printed as well. You will find that our prompts are written for different grade levels. One of the Writer's Digest "101 Best Websites for Writers" (2008 & 2011) January Writing Prompts - Writing Prompts include: author J.R.R. Thousands of Free Lesson Plans and Educational Resources for Teachers | Verizon Thinkfinity.org. Pete's Power Point Station - A Collection of FREE Presentations in PowerPoint format for K-12 Teachers and Students.
English « Tools 4 Teachers. Writing Prompts. Craft Minilessons. Writing with Writers |Scholastic.com. Author Bill Zimmerman's Treasure Chest. All you have to do to think more creatively and to imagine and dream is take a few minutes and let your heart respond to the question prompts below. They will encourage you to view your world differently, to see new possibilities, and make new choices. The first set of prompts are from my book, Make Beliefs: A Gift For Your Imagination. Please share your written Make Beliefs responses with us, some of which will be posted on this web site's BLOG With Bill Zimmerman page.
You can also see Make Beliefs for Kids of all Ages and my NEW E -BOOK: Make Beliefs to Spark Your Writing. To order by mail, write to: Martin Jorgensen. Teaching Authors--6 Children's Authors Who Also Teach Writing. Schools. BoomWriter lets you easily incorporate and experience the benefits of technology as your students are engaged in the following (or similar) standards-based learning activities: Grade 3 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.3 - Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. Using BoomWriter’s feature allowing teachers to create their own story start, students collaboratively create imagined multi-paragraph personal narratives using a teacher generated prompt (e.g.
“When I woke up on Saturday morning, I had no idea I was in for the craziest day of my entire life…”). Grade 5 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.2 - Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. Grade 6 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.1 - Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. Teaching Writing- Approaches & Activities. Outta Ray's Head Writing. The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator - Create your own fun newspaper. Grammar: Interactive Writing Activities. Global rating average: 0.0 out of 50.00.00.00.00.0 These sites feature interactive grammar and writing sites that are fun to use with SMARTboards. The online games and quizzes cover topics such as nouns, verbs, sentences, proofreading, capitalization, punctuation, plurals, and more.
There are links to an eThemes Resource on writing prompts and to the eThemes index that leads to many more resources on grammar and writing topics. Grades Links Harcourt School: Grammar Practice Court Play these interactive games for third- through fifth-grade students. The grammar topics include nouns, verbs, subjects, and sentences. Education Standards Request State Standards. 911 Writer's Block. Smartboard lessons, lesson plans, ideas, content and more. English language Powerpoint Presentations- Free ESL powerpoint. The Best Videos For Educators In 2011. This is always one of my favorite year-end lists to do….. You might also be interested in: Part Two Of The Best Videos For Educators — 2010 The Ten Best Videos For Educators — 2010 And you might also want to see The Best Funny Videos Showing The Importance Of Being Bilingual — Part One and The Best Videos Illustrating Qualities Of A Successful Language Learner.
Here are my choices for The Best Videos For Educators In 2011: The World Wildlife Fund created this amazing forty second video: The world is where we live from WWF on Vimeo. It publicizes another pretty impressive creation of theirs — My World. Here are two amazing videos taken from The International Space Station: Daniel Pink was recently interviewed on a local Washington, D.C. television show along with a local university official. Near the end of the extensive Bloom’s Taxonomy lesson I describe in my book, I show some fun videos demonstrating the thinking levels through scenes from Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean.