Creative Writing

This is really really out of date, but here’s what I wrote about a couple of years ago. We use Writing Strands for the older kids, once they get around middle school age.

We do creative writing 2 or 3 times a week at the Sculley Academy. What we do includes:

Writing Strands – many levels

daily journal — each child records whatever thoughts, feelings, or happenings they’d like. I know they will always treasure these 🙂

Any Child Can Write This is a serious-toned book with lots of starting points.

If You’re Trying to Teach Kids How to Write, You’ve Got to Have This Book This is a fun, easy-to-read book with many creative ideas.

Story Starters

Writing to Inform, Writing to Explain, and Writing to Persuade

Writing links:

“How do you feel today” chart

Rhyming dictionary

Wordsmyth (dictionary / thesaurus)

Writing with Writers

Young Writer’s Website

Poetry Pals (includes lesson plans for K – 12)

Creative Communication Poetry Contest (deadlines each December and April)

Georgia Poetry Society (with contests)

Research Paper

Public Speaking

Morse Code and Phonetic Alphabets

Here are some not-very-recent samples of the children’s work . . .

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