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everyday strategies to enhance literacy in the classroom

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Writing Activities

Writing Activities help students develop their writing techniques through the practical application of Writing Skills. Each specific activity listed below comes with instruction on how to the teach the activity as well as specific texts that can be taught using the activity.

Header-Writing-Activities

  • Amazing Alternatives
  • Characterization
  • Circular Stories
  • Collaborative Character Sketch
  • Concept Maps
  • Evoking Emotion
  • Files and Folders
  • Finding Fabulous Quotes
  • Flipping the Familiar
  • Free Write
  • Gallery Tour
  • Gallery Walk
  • Great First Lines
  • Heart Maps
  • Inside Outside Circles
  • Instead of a Journal
  • Journalists’ Questions
  • Little Feelings Book
  • Poetry With a Purpose
  • PWIM: What’s in a Picture?
  • Research Report
  • Scene One
  • Seeing Both Sides
  • Serendipity Writing
  • Stretching a Setting
  • Summarizing Text
  • Swatch Tower Poetry Image
  • Visceral Poems
  • W4
  • Walk on the Wild Side
  • What’s in a List?
  • Words for Wordless
  • Write Like a Writer
  • Writing in Role: The Pitch

Click here to download the Literacy 44 extended book list, where you'll find information about all of the books and resources, including summaries of the texts, authors, ISBN and printing information.

Some of the Writing Activities also have downloadable handouts and online multi-media material that you will need for in-class activities. The following icons appear throughout and indicate additional material that you'll want to access for you and your students. Simply click on the icons.

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Reading Activities


Reading Activities


Writing Activities


Reading-Writing Connection Lessons


French Activities

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