Sunday, January 31, 2010

a creative writing assignment



1. teacher will fill an assortment of sandwich baggies with small slips of paper-- each slip has one word on it.

2. students will each get a baggy.

3. students will write a poem or short story incorporating the words they've been given (of course they can use other words as well).

4. teacher should specify the desired length of poem/story.

* this assignment can also be done with a partner or in small groups, with each student contributing the words in their baggy

* teacher can modify the difficulty of assignment simply by modifying the difficulty of the words, depending on grade level, reading level, etc.

* this assignment could be utilized to incorporate new vocabulary words, spelling words, foreign language words, etc.




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