This 25 question scavenger hunt is always a winner with my 9th grade students although it could be used for grades 6-12. Unlike most internet scav... ByTamara Doehring
This two page handout provides and overview of the writing tip Show Don't Tell. In addition to explaining what these two terms mean in relation to... ByTamara Doehring
This document contains 40 book projects. These projects are great for after independent reading or a class novel. The variety is an excellent way... ByTamara Doehring
This three page handout includes an explanation on how to incorporate a writing workshop in your classroom. This type of writing workshop is based... ByTamara Doehring
This is a list of common tone words. Often on standardized tests, student might be able to describe the tone, but they lack the vocabulary of tone ... ByTamara Doehring
This document offers some ideas and sample sonnets for students to review. Defines sonnet and iambic pentatmeter. Links to some other great referen... ByTamara Doehring
This six page document contains 250+ writing prompts. These are prompts I have used over the years in our writer's notebook and can be used for a ... ByTamara Doehring
This handout defines the difference between the metaphor and simile. Then students take the ten choices and write five similes and five metaphors.... ByTamara Doehring
This poster can be adapted to mutliple sizes but comes in an 8.5 X 11. The process on this poster starts with "Observing the details in the world ... ByTamara Doehring
This packet includes 14 pages of various activities to do within literature circles. These are mostly handouts with instructions on them. If you d... ByTamara Doehring
Students form groups of 3-4 and each has to select a writing task (1-25)to include in the story they write as a group. Same can be done with the p... ByTamara Doehring
This one page handout provides a dozen steps to improving poetry. Should be done after several poems have gone through the first drafts. ... ByTamara Doehring
This four page document walks students through an activity of analyzing nonfiction material that they bring to class (printed webpages). In groups ... ByTamara Doehring
This document includes 4 pages of handouts to assist students in evaluating media.Vocabulary words like bias and spin. Fact/Opinion evaluation and ... ByTamara Doehring
These 18 Scavenger Hunts are interactive methods of learning material of finding background information. Beyond searching for answers on the intern... ByTamara Doehring
This one page lesson begins as a typical handout on imagery where you ask students to think of a special place and then list description for each s... ByTamara Doehring
This document defines the difference between Metaphors, similes, and symbolism. Students work through the three different levels with examples and ... ByTamara Doehring
This Scavenger hunt will have students searching for those elements of bias and spin that populate our media. In addition, they will learn about pr... ByTamara Doehring
Use this activity to explain why the state writing prompts are "boring." Students put themselves in the test-maker's shoes to understand how to wri... ByTamara Doehring