From the Contest Website: Who can participate? If you are in grades 3-5, you can participate in our Level One contest. If you are in grades 6-8, you can participate in our Level Two Contest. What is the challenge? Level One: After viewing videos and reading about Bo and the Elephant Refuge North America (ERNA), […]
By Sandy Carlson The rules of writing are simple: 1) Get ‘er down in writing. 2) Look ‘er over and fix the mistakes. 3) Let someone else read ‘er. 4) Fix ‘er up again. 5) Repeat 3 and 4 as often as necessary until you can’t change anything else. The first rule is to “Get […]
Here’s a fun writing game for a class, a get-together, or in our case, a family reunion! It’s called Telephone Pictionary, and it’s a combination of those two all-time favorites. How To Play 1. Before you start, cut several pieces of plain white paper into small rectangles about 3 inches wide by 2 inches long. Provide each player with […]
(Reblog – This post was first published on Write2Ignite.com.) Do you have a picture book in the works? If so, you know they are a lot harder to write than most people think. Whether you’re just starting to write your manuscript or you’re in the final stages of revision, here are some things NOT to do: […]
Have you ever written a children’s story? Perhaps it’s a bedtime story you told to your child or your grandchild, and you finally got it down on paper. Or maybe it’s a story you wrote to impart an important moral or lesson. Or maybe it’s a story you wrote just for fun. I’ve written all […]
This is a fun writing activity to do with a group of students to help get their creative juices flowing. You provide them with part of the first line of a story, and the students take it from there! Here’s what you do: 1. Have each student take out a piece of notebook paper. 2. […]
This school year, I’m teaching a middle school creative writing class. Most of the assignments are single paragraphs in which the students focus on descriptive writing. Still, I’ve found that many of the “rules” for good writing that we talk about are the guidelines I try to follow in my own work. One of those guidelines is to […]