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. This book was written by Alexandra Bigelow and Elsie S. Wilderding and is recommended for the second grade. Book 2 begins with a review of capitalization and basic punctuation and then works on the nuts and bolts of sentence and paragraph writing. Later chapters focus on character and setting development and the use of creative, interesting details. Dialogue and point of view are introduced, and editing and publishing are also covered. Students develop longer, more detailed stories than they did in Book 1.
Skills Addressed
- Review of basic punctuation
- Describing words
- Supporting sentences
- Conclusions
- How-to paragraphs
- Overused words
- Comparisons
- Story planning with webs and other graphic organizers
- Characters
- Dialogue
- Point of view
- Feeling
- Senses
- Setting
- Editing and publishing
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. Guides for books 1-3 also include answer keys.
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 Books 1, and 2 feature
- Fundamentals of story writing: characters, setting, problem, conclusion
- All stages of the writing process from planning to publishing
- Proofreading, content, and editing checklists
- Exercises on punctuation, spelling, paragraphs, word choice, description, point of view, and dialogue
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. |
