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Teach Dialogue Writing: 5 Simple Tips for a Fun Lesson
Creative Writing ► May 28, 2023

Teach Dialogue Writing: 5 Simple Tips for a Fun Lesson

Nothing quite makes a student’s short story cringey like bad dialogue. It can ruin the flow and the fun of an otherwise creative story. In this post, I’m going to share some tips to help...

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3 Simple Ideas for Your Creative Writing Final Exam
Creative Writing ► May 14, 2023

3 Simple Ideas for Your Creative Writing Final Exam

Creative Writing is usually a fun class that allows students to be more inventive and imaginative with their writing. How, then, do you possibly assess students’ growth at the end of the class? In this...

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5 Simple Steps for Teaching Limericks to High Schoolers
Creative Writing ► March 5, 2023

5 Simple Steps for Teaching Limericks to High Schoolers

If your students are finding poetry a little stiff and boring, then it’s time to introduce limericks! Despite their short length, having students write their own limerick poems can provide quite the challenge--even for older students! In this post, you’ll find some tips for teaching limericks!

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Academic Vs. Creative Writing: What You Need to Know Before You Teach
Creative Writing ► January 8, 2023

Academic Vs. Creative Writing: What You Need to Know Before You Teach

In college and during your teacher training, you probably spent a lot of time discussing how to teach writing to students. Even if you didn’t discuss writing pedagogy, you know the basics of academic writing...

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How to Rewrite a Fairy Tale with Your Creative Writing Class
Creative Writing ► December 11, 2022

How to Rewrite a Fairy Tale with Your Creative Writing Class

Having students rewrite a fairy tale or fable is a classic Creative Writing project–and for good reason! There is so much for students to learn and so many skills for students to practice during this...

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How to Teach the Best Author Study Project
Creative Writing ► May 29, 2022

How to Teach the Best Author Study Project

Coming up with a final project for the Creative Writing class you’re teaching can be tough. How do you create a project that is engaging and rigorous? How do you incorporate differentiation and enough mentor texts? One solution to this problem is having your students complete an Author Study Project. 

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Creative Writing Skills: 6 Lessons You Need To Teach Today
Creative Writing ► May 15, 2022

Creative Writing Skills: 6 Lessons You Need To Teach Today

What skills should your students be learning? In this post, I’m going to share some essential Creative Writing skills you should be teaching in your high school Creative Writing class. 

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Hands-On Figurative Language Activities for your High School Class
Creative Writing ► March 6, 2022

Hands-On Figurative Language Activities for your High School Class

It’s absolutely astonishing how little high schoolers understand figurative language. Even my seniors struggled to tell me the difference between similes and metaphors (didn’t they learn that like every year in middle school?). And they didn’t have the attention span to work their way through worksheet after worksheet of figurative language practice. So I came up with some figurative language activities to review and practice their skills–without boring my high school students to death!

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5 Quick Tips for Teaching Odes to High Schoolers
Creative Writing ► November 28, 2021

5 Quick Tips for Teaching Odes to High Schoolers

So you’re teaching odes to high schoolers. Odes are complicated poems and the classical ones can be difficult for struggling readers to understand. This doesn’t mean they’re impossible, however! Regardless of your students’ abilities, you...

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Two-Sentence Horror Stories: How to Teach Them
Creative Writing ► October 3, 2021

Two-Sentence Horror Stories: How to Teach Them

I absolutely love October, Halloween, and everything that comes with fall! I might be a #BasicTeacher, but it does lead me to instill some seasonal activities into my classroom. In this post, I want to...

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