Innovative lessons plans and ideas for teaching creative writing as well as samples of student writing resulting from the lessons.
Translating a 200-year-old text in the classroom.
Charles Darwin & Pablo Picasso
How an unconventional form can serve as a creative constraint for a story.
A lesson exploring tone and self-expression through the poetry of Walt Whitman, John Berryman, and Yusef Komunyakaa.
The walk poem involves a walk
A lesson to help students generate ideas and practice writing college application essays.
A lesson plan exploring the art of observation and craft through word choice.
A lesson for creating poetry that imagines emotions as characters with human traits.
A lesson on alliteration.
Writing Prompts for Fourth Grade
Beyond the 5-Paragraph Essay
Six writing lessons for playwriting.
Incidental Comics
PS 457 Young Leadership Academy
Lesson plans that introduce older adults to the fundamentals of songwriting.
P.S. 188 Kingsbury School
Ideas and Exercises to Help Students Sharpen Their Powers of Observation
A unit plan for English class.
The Melania Trump speech.
A lesson about imaginative description in poetry.
A kindergarten poetry lesson.
Reviving revision through storytelling and poetry.