Get your students invested in showing you about their novel with this novel study choice board. There's a time and place for book reports, but there are better and more engaging ways to check for understanding! This resource includes 12 open-ended project prompts that allow students to use their own creative strengths to share about their novel. Your students will find themselves doing any of the following to show their understanding: Writing Graphic design Drawing Recording a podcast Creating a video Building a 3-D model Acting out an interview and more! Click "View Preview" to preview the resource before purchase. These resources may help your students with their novel study projects: 40 Printable Templates for Storyboards or Comic Strips Create Your Own Invention Activity Novel Study: Soundtrack Activity [create soundtracks to books or just for fun!] You may also like: (FREE!) Five-Sentence Summary Graphic Organizer Book Review Templates for K-5+ [Differentiated with over 20 different designs!] English Language Arts Graphic Organizers Bundle: Writing and Vocabulary
The best creative writing exercises help you practise your writing skills in a fun way. Check out these writing exercises and writing prompts for adults.
I have been working on my novel for many years. I’ve had confidence issues, fear issues, procrastination issues…but now I’ve decided enough is enough and it’s time to get on with it. This is a vlog of my progress and for this month I show how I am outlining and re-plotting my manuscript.
The best creative writing exercises help you practise your writing skills in a fun way. Check out these writing exercises and writing prompts for adults.
If you are looking for Frindle teaching ideas, this is the place to visit. You'll find printables, lesson plans, and novel study samples.
Learn how to write great descriptions that will engage your readers with a powerful sense of place and enhance your entire novel. Stop boring your readers.
Describing places is an important part of making your settings come to life. Use these writing tips and exercises to hone your descriptive skills.
L'artiste Pascal Campion nous dévoile de jolis moments du quotidien par le biais de ses dessins qui racontent des histoires attendrissantes.
Middle school novel study favorites - top novel study picks for grade 5-9 to engage and encourage young readers.
This is the most creative method I've ever seen for doing a book report! It's perfect for children because it gives very specific parameters, and it involves the enjoyable creativity that art brings. No specific skill level is required as it is easy to scale back the five to seven sentences to fewer if your student is overwhelmed with more. You might find that this is one report your student proudly keeps on display all year!
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Ready to dive into the enchanting world of Tuck Everlasting? If you're searching for engaging resources and fresh teaching ideas for your Tuck Everlasting novel study, you've come to the
Interested in writing YA Mystery Books? Here are 10 tips to help you craft a teen suspense novel full of twists and turns... and angst!
Scrivener does more than help writers outline and draft; it's great for editing too. Here are 6 tips for how to use Scrivener to edit a better story.
For every story exists two underlying keys that hook the reader into helplessly wanting more. What are those two keys keeping readers glued to the pages?
My awesome coworker and I made up a trig matching activity. I know it's not a novel idea, but here is another resource for precalculus teachers to solidify angles in standard position. You can find the file HERE. Via our internet math community, I learned that it's easier to leave one of the pages uncut (the pink sheet here), and then the students can place the matching cut up green and gold cards on the page. Before, I used to cut up all three, and then that took up too much space on the student tables. Thank you virtual PD friends for the great tip. My buddy and I also decided to break up the teaching into 2 class periods with degrees one day and the dreaded radians along with their devilish friends, FRACTIONS (duhn DUHN duhhhhhhn) for the next day. Hopefully, this will allow the fraction/radian goodness to seep into their resisting minds more readily. I didn't share the word document because it seems to mess up when you download it via box.net (or maybe I'm wrong). If you want the word document to play around with, send e-mail. Another thing I like about this is that we didn't use all special angles. We also didn't indicate which was up or down on the pink sheet, so that stumped some kids and they had to think and justify the direction. Yay math.
A few weeks ago, I was at the half-way point of my first draft and having trouble with my plot. After ten months of steadily pounding away at the keyboard and chipping at the word count, I was incr…
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli is one of the best books I've ever taught my fifth graders. There are themes of friendship, family, racism, courage and love. At the beginning of the book, readers are introduced to Jeffery Magee, an orphan made to live with his aunt and uncle who hate each other. They fight about everything, even Jeffery! One day, Jeffery, also known as Maniac has had enough and runs away to the other side of town. The side where no one from his side goes. There, he is faced with many different challenges and adventures. Because of the way the book is written, setting and characters play a big part. This hands-on and engaging activity is brilliant because it asks students to think deeply about how setting is important to the story as well as the different characters whom Maniac meets along the way. When thinking about setting, students choose a place Maniac went to and describe why it is important to the story and how the story might change if that place didn't exist. When thinking about the characters in the story, students are asked to choose 3 important characters and tell their character traits and why he/she was important to the story and how he/she changed during the story. Finally, students draw how they visualized the characters while reading, There is a separate page dedicated to Maniac Magee and it is a character map that gets pasted on the side of the soda carrier. Students also label the soda carrier with the theme of the story, their rating of the story and a picture and explanation of their favorite part. Teachers can decide whether this is an on-going activity that students complete while reading Maniac Magee or something that is done after students have finished reading the book. I would love to hear your feedback if you choose to use this activity in your classroom!
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The best creative writing exercises help you practise your writing skills in a fun way. Check out these writing exercises and writing prompts for adults.
