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Sylvia Plath by Summer Pierre. “Go out & do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.” (Sylvia Plath) P.S. If you never read The Bell Jar as a moody teenager, you missed out! (But it’s never too late…) P.P.S. Summer’s blog is great. I love an absorbing new find!
Time to start binging some documentaries, I guess.
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Our mental health is paramount. However, this message can get lost in the storm of noise that surrounds our daily routines. Before we know it, we’ve put the things that should matter to us most on the backburner and we might feel like we’re overwhelmed by work, school, life. Everything.
Feeling-o-meter: A visual feeling thermometer for children to properly identify and describe their feelings of anger, frustration and disappointment.
I LOVE saving figurative language until June - it's such a fun language unit ... and perfect for our "dreaming of summer brains". We finished up our EQAO testing mid week, and this onomatopoeia activity was the perfect break from testing. How fun is that??? Students chose two contrasting colours - one for the background and one for the word and border "bursting out of the page". They also needed newspaper (cut just a fraction smaller that the "bursting out of the page border" and glued the newspaper on top. They glued their word on top of that (we had brainstormed a lot of onomatopoeia words, but for some reason most of them chose SPLAT for their word). I also had them do a little shading under their letters for that little extra POP (see, I know some onomatopoeia words, too). ;) I had seen this awesome idea on Pinterest and followed it back to Artisan des Arts. Her examples are FANTASTIC!! We also wrote simile poems this week. I found a little template HERE for the students to use for their rough copies. When students were finished their templates, I had them write out their good copies, and illustrate a few lines with a small image. I hung these up, too ... LOVING our bulletin board switch up ... even this late in the school year!!! (I have two of these "smART class" bulletin boards side by side in the classroom. 15 more school days left ... I think I can ... I think I can ... Happy Friday!!!
Writing Worksheet – Your Readership (PDF) You’ve brainstormed all the things you love, but what about your readers? Use this worksheet to think about your audience’s likes, interests, and needs, and decide how best to use your story to reach them.
Need your character to do something, but not sure what would motivate them to do it? This character motivation worksheet can help!
In this blog post, read about my best teaching strategies to teach writing narrative endings. Grab all the freebies to help you teach.
If you're looking for a starting point for creating a character, you will enjoy this character interview worksheet.
As most readers will tell you, there is something quite disturbing about a character who loves dogs one moment and is terrified of them the next, or who has pants on at the beginning of a line of d…
A few tricks to stop your character from getting annoying.
Can’t seem to get your new story started? Read this!
Creative Writing Worksheet – Expressing Emotions (PDF) Emotions dictate our actions more than we would like to admit, and for the writer, they’re an integral part of creating character motivation. Of course, they’re also very important for hooking the reader, and while you can certainly play it by ear, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised…
Creative Writing Worksheet – Scene Writing (PDF) Here is a worksheet I needed to write for myself this week! Often when you create an outline, you know what needs to happen when, but not necessarily how the action should unfold, or in what way you should relate it. This worksheet will help you brainstorm some…
Here's a guide to writing cozy fantasy, including some examples of the subgenre and some ideas to get you started.
There’s no doubt that kids bring joy and humor to our lives. They often leave adults in stitches by blaring their charming wisdom without thinking twice. But at the same time, they can surprise everyone around them by offering something a little more mysterious that’s bound to send chills down their spines.
There’s nothing quite like a really memorable villain to add drama to a story! Who can forget Count Fosco, or Moriarty, or Sauron? Use this worksheet to craft the perfect villain. Click Here to Download This Worksheet (PDF) If you’d like a more well-rounded villain, you might consider plotting their character arc. You can also…
We’ve all said a thing or two we regret and that we wish we could take back. And sometimes there are people there to witness it and give us savage burns that are so epic.But when it’s on the internet, everyone can see it. These people posted ridiculous things online and they were served clever comebacks. You’re going to need an ice pack to get over these burns!
Download This Writing Worksheet (PDF) When it comes to writing dialogue, you could do worse than follow the rules of Just a Minute: no hesitation, no repetition, no deviation. Theatre scripts provide excellent inspiration for good dialogue, being composed of little else, and having been written with speech at the forefront, without film’s excessive reliance on visual…
Cut-out & keep: some things to consider when writing dialogue
Tips How to Write Villains that Play Mind Games with Their Victims. Do you love to write manipulative villains? Try these writing tips to write your villains.
Use this worksheet to compare characters and find which point of view works best to tell your story...
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