Today's Classroom Activities :

Writing Starters

Journal Starters
Writing Put a star at the top of the next blank page in each student's journal. That will serve as the story starter for this day. They may write about what the star reminds them of, why we use various symbols, how hard they work to get one, etc.

In A Writer’s Bag of Tricks Debra T. Rotkow teaches us a few simple strategies that can provide your students with a bevy of great writing ideas.

Susan Mandel Glazer share some thoughts on fostering the writer in all our students in On Being a Writer.