High School English and TPT Seller Resources
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...
Read MoreCreative 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...
Read MoreIn 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...
Read MoreHaving 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...
Read MoreComing 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.
Read MoreWhat 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.
Read MoreIt’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!
Read MoreSo 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...
Read MoreCreative Writing was forced onto my schedule; I didn’t ask for it. But it ended up becoming my favorite class period of the day. While academic English courses can feel high-stakes and always short on...
Read MoreWhen I was first told that I’d be teaching creative writing, I panicked. While I had always enjoyed writing myself, I had no idea how to show others how to do it creatively. After all, all of my professional development had focused on argumentative writing and improving test scores. Eventually, though, I came to love my creative writing class, and I think you will too. In this post, I hope to help you with shaping your own creative writing class.
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