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Welcome! Here you'll find innovative secondary ELA curriculum, like podcasting projects, one-pagers, PBL units for genius hour and AI research, choice reading program elements, hexagonal thinking for any text, and more. After almost a decade in teaching, I now host The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast and design curriculum for creative English teachers full time. You can find me on Edutopia, Cult of Pedagogy, Truth for Teachers, We Are Teachers, NCTE's Read Write Think and more.
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ELA Writing Workshop: Foldable Stories
This fun creative writing activity is sure to lead to some surprise twists and turns. Just photocopy the two sheets onto one double sided page and give one to each student. Allow five minutes for everyone to start their story, then ask them to add their final lines in the next box and fold their papers over, passing them on to the next students. The next students will continue the story in the new box, without knowing what came before. After six rotations ask the final contributor to bring the
4th - 8th
Creative Writing, English Language Arts
CCSS
W.9-10.10
, L.9-10.1
, L.9-10.2
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Welcome! Here you'll find innovative secondary ELA curriculum, like podcasting projects, one-pagers, PBL units for genius hour and AI research, choice reading program elements, hexagonal thinking for any text, and more. After almost a decade in teaching, I now host The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast and design curriculum for creative English teachers full time. You can find me on Edutopia, Cult of Pedagogy, Truth for Teachers, We Are Teachers, NCTE's Read Write Think and more.
Teaching style
I like to use creative, artistic, differentiated pedagogies. I constantly promote free-choice reading, use interdisciplinary journal prompts and help students explore different forms of creative writing. I like a variety of discussion forms like literature circles and fishbowl discussions, but particularly focus on developing the group dynamics required for round-table discussions.
Awards & shining teacher moments
National Arthur Ashe Award for Community Involvement, Leadership, and Sportsmanship
The Webb Schools New Teacher Award
My own education history
B.A., Pomona College
M.A., Middlebury College
Additional biographical information
The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast
The Creative High School English Facebook Group
@nowsparkcreativity
nowsparkcreativity.com
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