Today's Classroom Activities :

Writing Exercises

Learning From the Pros
Writing Have each student bring in his or her favorite magazines. Ask each student to select a story or article to study, and have them use a colored marker to highlight what you're currently studying in writing class. Look for strong beginnings, compound predicates, cause and effect, examples of dialogue or descriptive settings.

Persuasive Writing
This strategy guide focuses on persuasive writing and offers specific methods on how you can help your students use it to improve their critical writing and thinking skills.

Ten Prompts For Student Writing
Students practice writing skills as they respond to a writing prompt.

Don't Throw Away that Junk Mail!
Students use old junk mail to identify techniques used to attract and hold the reader's attention.

Successful Paragraphs
As a result of this activity, the students will each write a five-sentence paragraph with varied sentence beginnings, correct spelling and punctuation, and appropriate margins.

Friendly letters giving advice on getting thru the year
Write a friendly letter of three to five paragraphs to next year's students, advising them regarding staff, classes, homework, hall and class behavior; lockers, etc. (all students must sign name to letter and all "information" must be ok'd by teacher mentioned so everything is funny and good-natured).