If you’re a teacher trying to figure out her first-day-of-school writing prompt, visit the Northern Nevada Writing Project (NNWP) for some wonderful, interactive writing lessons that will get you off to a brilliant beginning. The NNWP WritingFix page is set up for teachers and features many helpful ideas, routines, and practices for the writing classroom. [...]
By Marcia
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Posted in education, inspiration, Lesson plan, publishing, teaching, writers in the schools
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Also tagged Classroom, Education, Educators, K through 12, Lesson plan, teacher, Teaching Resources
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Psychometrician Johnson O’Connor studies factors leading to career achievement. His studies cover a wide range of areas, including age and level of education. Every time he analyzed the data, he got the same results: the better a person’s vocabulary, the better correlation with success. Scientists think that that a bigger vocabulary is connected to the [...]
Grade level: Kindergarten – 1st Genre: various Objectives: To involve the students in listen to a story read aloud Primary sources: Cat Goes Fiddle-i-fee by Paul Galdone Materials: a basket with small stuffed animal characters from the book Cat Goes Fiddle-i-fee Contributors: Brooke Brown, Linda Draper This story basket activity ensures the active participation of [...]
By WITS Houston
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Posted in animal, art, creativity, imagination, Lesson plan, writers in the schools, writing prompts
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Also tagged Arts, characters, Educational stage, Kindergarten, Literature, Paul Galdone, reading, Stuffed toy
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I am the taste of sushi like butter on my tongue. I am the smell of my grandpa’s old books that smell like dust. I am the bursting fireworks and the smoke they leave behind. I am music without a beat. I am the smell of exotic spices. I am the messy fluff on my [...]
For more self-portraits by WITS students, visit the WITS Meeting House. Free e-cards are available there too.
Once there was a girl who grew weeds in pots, and every time she had an adventure, the weed of that day would grow as tall as her adventure. Her tallest weed was bigger than she was. One day she was going to a pizza place, and she found a door hidden in vines. It [...]
I like nature because the flowers are a part of nature. I like beautiful flowers. I love to watch the birds fly high and free in the sky. The little bugs may look nasty on the outside but they are nice on the inside, so don’t kill them. Trees and grass are a part of [...]
My dogs bark and bark as if they see a ghost, but actually I feel joy once I open the door. I feel love once I touch my dogs. I am sure they do too. It seems scary things and evil is being pulled away when I am face to face with my shining dogs. [...]
Frodo’s Notebook publishes exceptional writing and art online by kids ages 13-19. If you’re interested in submitting to this journal, read several back issues to get a sense of the kind of work that they publish. The details of how to make your submission are here.
My fish live in my house. They blow bubbles all day long. They breathe through their gills quietly. I feed them with a little, tiny spoon. They don’t make any noise when they swim, but all together they look like a rainbow – orange, red, yellow, brown. They’re friendly fish. I know because when I [...]
Spinning around like a tornado twirling. I could go on smiling for a long, long smile. WATCH OUT! I love my mom and dad. by Bria, age 8 Texas Children’s Hospital [photo kwisatc via Flickr]
El sol me sorprende, es un diamante gigante. Es una canica flotante. Es una semilla, es una estrella gigantesca. El sol es misericordia que me seguira todos los dias de mi vida. — The sun surprises me. It’s a giant diamond, a floating marble. It’s a seed, a giant star. The sun is mercy [...]
It’s tough being a kid now days. For example, being in fourth grade is more than enough to say. It’s like being in a masquerade. Taking tests almost every hour of the day. When I take tests I develop some special kind of power. Even though my brother torments me day and night while I’m [...]
Go inside a raindrop where it is cold. I see a rainbow down the smooth side. As the rain falls, I jump up and down inside the raindrop As the rain falls, I hear loud thunder. I jump rope to calm myself down. As I scream, I hear my loud echo answering back to me. [...]
