Best Creative Writing Schools
Derek Walcott speaking at the “Winter With The Writers” at Rollins College
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Poetry Writing $12.99 Guide students through the process of writing poetry. Inspire them with creative project ideas. Use templates and frames to help them get started. Share their results in ways that promote pride and a sense of accomplishment. |
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Cursive Writing Activities $12.99 Cursive Writing Activities is designed to help students master important handwriting skills. The book provides a variety of activities that allow students to practice letter formations as well as real world skills such as simple sentences, paragraph writing, creative writing, and everyday writing. Anyone using these instructional and fun worksheets will gain the confidence needed to keep his or her handwriting legible and free of mistakes.Activities include: writing letters and numbers, answering questions with written responses, completing creative writing activities, practicing writing with word games, and more. |
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Creative Kids: Creative Crafts for Clever Kids $15.99 Inspire creativity with 90 hands-on activities that have easy-to-follow directions.Creative Crafts for Clever Kids features the following activities: Paper Productions: Create fantastic paper products like a rocking horse, newspaper fan, and building logs. Kitchen Capers: Craft everyday food items into potato hedgehogs, apple votive candles, or pasta butterflies. Natural Necessities: Design dandelion jewelry, mud building bricks, or nature masks. Claydough Creations: Learn the best recipes for modeling everything from birthday candle holders to potted plant people. Fabric Finery: Convert fabric, ribbon, felt, and yarn into everything from dolls to indoor tennis rackets. Hardware Handiwork: Turn old nuts, bolts, washers, cans, and cup hooks into wind chimes and sculptures. Trash Treasures: Create new items from cans, milk jugs, and egg cartons.This book also includes suggestions for decorating and using competed projects to provide further enjoyment. |
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Building Writing Skills: Paragraphs to Essays $8.99 Writing is an active process that helps students develop higher order thinking skills. The practical yet fun-filled writing strategies in this series encourage students to expand their thinking processes and transform their thinking and reading skills into written words. This isn’t just another set of writing lessons. It’s a well-developed strategic plan peppered with fresh ideas and surprising activities that inspire students to do their best! Students develop nonfiction writing skills. |
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Building Writing Skills: Sounds to Letters $8.99 Writing is an active process that helps students develop higher order thinking skills. The practical yet fun-filled writing strategies in this series encourage students to expand their thinking processes and transform their thinking and reading skills into written words. This isn’t just another set of writing lessons. It’s a well-developed strategic plan peppered with fresh ideas and surprising activities that inspire students to do their best! In this book, students learn to identify sounds and link them to letters of the alphabet. |
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Building Writing Skills: Letters to Words $8.99 Writing is an active process that helps students develop higher order thinking skills. The practical yet fun-filled writing strategies in this series encourage students to expand their thinking processes and transform their thinking and reading skills into written words. This isn’t just another set of writing lessons. It’s a well-developed strategic plan peppered with fresh ideas and surprising activities that inspire students to do their best! Students learn to combine letters (that represent sounds) into words. |
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Able Writers In Your School $20.28 Able Writers in Your School will help educators develop the potential of gifted pupils – and all the other pupils in the school as well!It passes on ideas, practical advice and lesson plans that the authors, Brian Moses and Roger Stevens, have found to work especially well with the groups of able writers they have taught over the last few years. Over 70 inspirational examples of children’s work show how ideas work in practice and raise the standard of children’s work.Suggestions for poetry range from taking an idea and stretching it, making the familiar scary and dealing with serious issues. The chapters on prose include creating a realistic character, building conflict, looking at point of view and developing dialogue.Brain Moses is one of Britain’s best-loved children’s poets and has published over 160 books and performed in over 2000 schools across the UK and Europe.Roger Stevens is a performance poet, author, musician and artist. His poems have appeared in more than one hundred anthologies and he performs his poetry and runs creative writing workshops for both young and old.In 2002, Brian Moses set up the Able Writers Scheme to enable professional writers to work with groups of talented pupils drawn from clusters of schools, to challenge them and develop their writing skills. The Able Writers Scheme is now supported by the National Education Trust.Able Writers in Your School gives you the chance to stretch your able writers in any direction their creativity takes them. |