AWAKENING CREATIVITY in the English – Language Arts classroom Part 3
A collection of generic creative-writing/response activities designed to be paired with any text students are reading, to stimulate creative thinking in ELA class.
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A collection of generic creative-writing/response activities designed to be paired with any text students are reading, to stimulate creative thinking in ELA class.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a passage about Kyoto, Japan (city geography/culture), used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and formal/creative writing skills in English.
Have students write and perform a short skit set in Chinatown, practicing creative writing, speaking, and vocabulary in a cooperative or independent project format.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a passage about Singapore (city-state geography/culture), used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and formal/creative writing skills in English.
A creative writing project that has students demonstrate comprehension of Jack London's short story 'To Build a Fire' by identifying a turning point in the plot and writing an alternate ending from that point, using plot-diagram planning and a grading rubric.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a passage about Tokyo, Japan (city geography/culture), used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and formal/creative writing skills in English.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a passage about Jakarta, Indonesia (capital city geography/culture), used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and formal/creative writing skills in English.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a passage about Yerevan, Armenia (city geography/culture), used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and formal/creative writing skills in English.
creative writing resource that guides students through brainstorming, planning, and writing an original superhero story using a series of graphic organizers
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a passage about Seoul, South Korea (city geography/culture), used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and formal/creative writing skills in English.
A creative-writing and art activity where students design their own original superhero, plan a narrative through structured graphic organizers, and present the finished story as a comic strip.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a passage about Taylor Swift (musician biography and cultural impact), used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and formal/creative writing skills in English.
A paired creative-writing and performance project where students write and act out a skit in which the folklore character Sun Wu Kong (Monkey King) helps a pop-culture celebrity solve a problem, incorporating new vocabulary with Pinyin.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a passage about Shanghai, China (city geography/culture), used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and formal/creative writing skills in English.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a passage about J-pop (Japanese popular music) and its history/culture, used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and formal/creative writing skills in English.
Give students an editable, familiar phone-messaging-app template to write out conversations for a creative writing or comprehension activity.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a passage about Q-pop (Kazakh popular music) and its history/culture, used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and formal/creative writing skills in English.
A creative-writing characterization activity in which students write a eulogy for the character Piggy after reading Chapter 11 (or the full novel) of Lord of the Flies.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a passage about One Direction (British boy band) history and cultural impact, used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and formal/creative writing skills in English.
Provide a Grade 9 end-of-year worksheet packet of 9 activities (about 10 hours total) for reflection, creative writing, and a cross-subject review quiz.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a passage about Khachapuri (Georgian cheese bread) and Caucasus food culture, used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and formal/creative writing skills in English.
Give ESL/EFL students reading-comprehension, vocabulary, and opinion/creative-writing practice using a nonfiction passage on the manga/anime series Sailor Moon.
An editable chat-app template (Skype-style) that lets students compose simulated text-message conversations for creative writing, historical roleplay, or novel-character dialogue.
Build ESL/EFL reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills using a nonfiction passage about the animated film Despicable Me.