This creative writing lesson plan offers writing activities for teaching the creative writing process in the classroom or homeschool.
Click here to see sample pages. Write about My World can be used after Write about Me or on its own as a prelude to the Just Write series. The drawing activities in Write about My World by Elsie Wilmerding continue to help children bridge the gap between thinking and talking about an idea and writing about it. Children broaden their choice of topics as they observe the world around them. Like Write about Me, the book features large spaces for drawing, student-centric illustrations, thematic word banks, and steps that lead young writers to add details to their writing and make content area connections. Students will find Words I Use When I Write a good tool for expanding their writing vocabulary . The book also offers an introduction to journals as a way to capture observations and possible writing ideas. My ______ Journal is a good companion piece. Some writing fundamentals such as kinds of sentences, capitalization, and punctuation are taught. All books in the series have illustrations by George Ulrich that lead students into writing with age-appropriate visuals.
Features
- Focuses on the student and his or her immediate surroundings and interests (family, favorites, neighborhood, school)
- Encourages the use of pictures to spark ideas for writing
- Encourages students to expand upon their pictures through writing
- Promotes use of detail and description in writing through word banks
- Leads up to writing stories with the basic Beginning-Middle-End format
- Coordinates with common introductory science unit about the senses
- Coordinates with common introductory social studies unit "All about Me"
Write about Me and Write about My World feature
- Child-centered drawing and writing activities
- Thematic word banks for more detailed writing
- Emphasis on observation and description
- Real-world writing applications
- Connections to early content area topics
- Basic editing and grammar skills
The Just Write series is designed to help all students become confident, expressive writers. Exercises and activities encourage creativity and provide great ideas to help children express themselves. All Teacher's Guides include extension activities.
The skills addressed in the Just Write series are basic punctuation, spelling, indenting, overused words, comparisons, point of view, writing dialogue, topic sentences, journal writing, editing and revising, characters, feelings, setting, conclusions, brainstorming, using your senses, story planning with webs and other graphic organizers, and description.
Just Write's activities for kids offer resources to help anyone teaching the creative writing process. Just Write lesson plans are ideal as home school curriculums showing how to teach writing skills such as essay writing, report writing and poetry writing. |
