Creative Writing Ideas, Grade 2 - 4 Teacher Resource (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781557996077)

Provide your students with the inspiration they need to develop the vocabulary, ideas, and enthusiasm that will make their writing shine!

Creative Writing Ideas comes with a wide variety of creative activities that can be used for prewriting and drafting or as stand-alone activities. 78 motivating activities--including draw and write, riddles, story starters, cartoons, shape books, and more--provide students with the creative spark they need to start writing with confidence and success.

You'll love Creative Writing Ideas because it:

• contains 78 motivating writing activities. From shape books and cartoons to letter writing and poetry exercises -- there are a variety of activities to engage your students in important writing practice.
• inspires reluctant writers. Motivating topics and delightful illustrations make writing fun! Many writing prompts are based on events that relate to students' lives.
• can be used for independent practice. Writing forms provide guided writing experiences students can complete on their own.
• is correlated to state standards.

Eleven types of writing experiences engage your students as they practice important skills.

• shape books
• draw and write
• riddles
• sequence and write
• fill in the missing words
• story starters
• cartoons
• descriptive paragraphs
• writing directions
• letter writing
• poetry

This resource contains teacher support pages and reproducible student pages. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.

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