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Creative Writing Templates

August 2, 2011 By: amyswandering1 Comment

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There are so many fun things to discover at SparkleBox! I couldn’t possibly fit them into one post, so today I will share my favorite: Creative Writing Templates

These are created for the younger kids, but I will be slipping a few of the sheets into my older girls’  writing  journals just for fun!

Here are some of the ideas I had while browsing:

Wanted Posters

  • use with fairy tales
  • fill out a poster and create a story to go with the character
  • have child create a poster for himself

Invitations

  • a royal fairy tale wedding
  • Christmas party at the North Pole
  • create a new holiday & design a celebration to go with it

Newspaper

  • send out a family newsletter
  • write up an historical event
  • use as book report
  • document an exciting event/field trip

Menus

  • use with geography study
  • re-create the menu from a favorite restaurant
  • plan food for the royal fairy tale wedding

Character Descriptions

  • book report
  • use to develop characters for a book
  • create one for each member of the family

Passports

  • Around the World study using these printable stamps
  • record favorite teams while watching the Olympics
  • create one for a fantasy story
  • use with ocean science for little ones

Lost Animal Posters

  • make one for your own pet using descriptive writing
  • create one for a monster pet at Halloween
  • or one of Santa’s reindeer at Christmas

Diaries

  • keep track of how you spend your time for 1 week
  • make a summer vacation diary for Santa or Jack Frost
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar food diary
  • sunflower & bean plant growth records (at bottom)

Writing Frames

  • lots of blank frames & books to use with projects
  • parchment scrolls – use for history notebooks
  • finger spacing for beginner writers
  • job applications
  • school role-play set

Don’t miss the colorful border pages down at the bottom!

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  • Fractured Fairy Tales
  • Free Poetry Printables & Resources

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Free Writing Guides

July 7, 2011 By: amyswandering3 Comments

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I was thrilled to discover the fantastic writing guides at Teaching That Makes Sense.

Look closely, the downloads are listed on the left.

Some of my favorites:

~Writing Strategy Guide – my older kids will be working their way through this attention-grabbing workbook

~ Prompted Writing – starting on page 25, there is a Glossary of Prompts and 1-a-page printable prompts

~ Learning Across the Curriculum – almost 200 pages of ideas on combining writing skills with other subjects

~ Practical Punctuation – handy little guide that I am printing out for everyone to put in their notebooks

~What is Good Writing? – more handy info

~Learning Patterns – writing and reading patterns – I think we might have a weekly writer’s workshop to go over some of these things (maybe I will model on the whiteboard?)

~Read Like a Reader, Read Like a Writer –  great exercises for learning to look at a piece of writing through both the eyes of a reader and a writer

~An Introduction to the Writing Process – teaching the writing process and instructions for setting up a writer’s workshop notebook

~Assessing Writing – know what to look for when correcting your child’s writing

Which ones will you be using?

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