Secondary School Teachers' Resources: Creative Writing Activities
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Puget Sound Writing ProjectUniversity of Washington
Teachers are the best teachers
of teachers.
Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.
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Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.
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Student write more when their teachers write, too.
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Low-stakes vs high stakes
What are the characteristics of high-stakes writing?
How about low stakes writing?
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What is an essay, anyway?
An analytical or interpretative literary composition usually dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view
Something resembling a composition (photographic)
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Why write?
Well, you can put more things on paper then what you can say out loud. Even to a friend. I’ve said more things to a piece of paper than I would ever say to my friend.
Eighth grade student
The Journal Book
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Free Writing
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The Power of Listing
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The List of Lists
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A sixth grader’s list
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What grade is this student in?
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Janine’s Double List
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Free write after List #2
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Clustering/ Webbing
Another idea
Starting idea
Related idea
Related idea
Related ideaRelated
idea
Related idea
Another idea
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Me-Maps
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Another Me-map
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One response to “space”
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Another view of sapce
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Another form of Me-map
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Writing to an Audience
• Start small – have the audience be one person.
• Dialogue Journals
• Buddy Journals
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Dialogue Journal
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Buddy Journal
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Gina and Stephanie
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Close Observation
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From a fifth grader’s science journal
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Show, Don’t Tell
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Taxonomy
• Classification, especially of plants and animals
• An orderly way to concurrently collect and classify information
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Use your senses
I seeI hearI smellI touchI taste
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And don’t forget
I think I feel
I rememberI know
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Revising – WOWS and WONDERS
Share work with a writers group or a partner:
WOW
-- I like, I think, I felt
WONDER
-- I wonder
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Recursive Revision
Revision means --
To see again.
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Recursive Revision
• Revision tricks -- let the piece rest while you rest -- check for “was, is, are, were, etc.”
• Join, or create, a writers group
• Write a one-sentence premise
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Editing
• Editing can mean looking for usage and punctuation errors.
• Editing can mean reading it with your specific audience in mind. This can lead back to revision.
• State the “premise” in one sentence• Read it aloud• Read it backwards.
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Publicare – make it public
• Anthology• Read around• Authors chair• Authors café• Send it to an agent or publciation• Other?
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Celebrate