6th Grade Writing

Publishing with Google Docs allows students to digitally share their work with you. Using the Comments feature, teachers may engage in a rich conferring dialogues to raise the level of student writing. Providing students with a Writing Checklist allows them to manage their own writing process. Docs is great in combination with Google Classroom as an assignment distribution format!

• Docs tutorials and resources

• Google Classroom tutorials and resources

• Comments video tutorial

Adobe Express and WeVideo can be used to create movies using the student's narrative writing as the script. 

• Adobe Express tutorials

• WeVideo tutorials

• Manta Ray Narrative Writing

Students can use Google Slides templates to create fun magazines about their informational writing topics. Here are some resources and tutorials:

• Google Slides tutorials and resources

• Google Slides magazine templates

• Lucidpress: This is a magazine creation website with some interesting templates and powerful tools.

Adobe Express or WeVideo can be used to create biographical movies using the student's biography writing as the script. 

• Adobe Express tutorials

• WeVideo tutorials

• MLK Jr. Movie

Adobe Express and WeVideo can be used to create mini-movies to accompany students' persuasive essays. 

• Adobe Express tutorials

• WeVideo tutorials

• Lesson plan

Google Drawings can be used to provide visuals for the poetry unit. Use text boxes to insert the poems and shapes to build the illustration.

• Google Drawings tutorials and resources

• Poetry checklist

• Hills poem example

Magnetic Poetry is a creative writing aid consisting of individual words—often related to a particular theme or topic—typed into on small text boxes which can be creatively arranged into poetry. Here are some resources:

• Google Slides tutorials and resources

• Magnetic Poetry templates