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Building 21st-Century Skills Through Cross Curricular Writing and Storytelling
Building 21st-Century Skills Through Cross Curricular Writing and Storytelling
Creativity and inventive thinking
Multiple intelligences
Higher-order thinking (lessons learned)
Information literacy
Visual literacy
Sound literacy
Technical literacy
Effective communication (oral, written, and digital)
Teamwork and collaboration
Project management
Enduring understandings
Digital Tools To Incorporate Writing Across The Curriculum
Digital Tools To Incorporate Writing Across The Curriculum
Fun Ideas for Writing
Fun Ideas for Writing
Create a myth about the origins of a modern-day invention to share with future generations.
Develop myths from “what would happen if.”
Create myths of “how things came to be” in your life, family, school, or business.
Change a current event into a tall tale or myth.
Develop a legend of a family member’s life or accomplishments.
Create a legend of your own life for your great, great grandchildren to pass on.
Create a fractured fairy tale using something from your own life.
Create legends or tall tales of a literary character, mathematical concept, or social studies event.
Create the storytelling journey of a leaf eaten by an earthworm. Make the facts come alive from beginning to end as if you were one of the digestive parts along the way.
Be the youngest child of a Japanese family living in California, unfolding the facts and emotional experience of the Japanese internment camps.
Be a decimal point, sharing your journey of being misunderstood and needing to clearly make a difference in the world.
Be a literary, scientific, or historical character sharing a defining moment when a choice you made touched the world forever.
Dialogue with another person across other eras or time periods, sharing your perspective and lessons learned on issues and events.
Dialogue as parts of the brain on memorable experiences with the body.
Be the pen that signed the Declaration of Independence, a treaty, or one of the Amendments, and explain how your life has impacted the lives of countless others.
Describe an event and why it matters, connects, or makes a difference to our humanity or communities today.
Tell about a person and what his or her life or work has taught us—or perhaps how his or her work or choices in life continue to touch our lives today.
Describe bees and what you now realize about their contribution or importance to our world.
Help convince others to make better choices by sharing a defining moment when a decision or experience (e.g., drugs, guns, Internet chat rooms, dropping out of school, drinking, smoking, recycling our garbage, helping a friend, or stopping the bullying of others) changed or touched lives forever.
Be a squirrel, eagle, bear, whale, or toucan convincing others to take care of the environment through a personal story of what happens when you do or what happens when you do not.
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