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What's it All About?
What's it All About?
Encouraging playful, diverse use of the English language
Providing a space for imagination
Making personal expression part of English class
Who is it for?
Who is it for?
Intermediate and proficient English students.
All Ages
Everyone!!
Your Task for this Program
Your Task for this Program
This page provides 3 levels of writing units. Choose the level that seems to fit your class, and consult the unit planners provided. Adjust them to your needs, and get writing!!
1. Guide students to observing the space around them, and use sensory language to describe it. Lesson plan provided below
2. Choose a genre to set as your goal: Portfolio Pieces, Poetry in the Park, or Publishing Short Stories.
4. Write, rewrite, self-edit, peer-edit.
5. Publish
6. Celebrate! Choose a special place to share writing with each other: the park, the English Corner, the auditorium.
Portfolio Pieces
Portfolio Pieces
Use these amusing photos as a launching point for sensory writing, inspiration for plots, and more!
Use these unusual NYTimes photos to help develop students senses of curiosity and observation. They can be a launching point for writing, and then discussion.
Poetry in The Park
Poetry in The Park
developed and shared by Lisa Melamed
writeup of poetry in the park.docxsensory writing.docxSensory Details PP.pptxEncourage an atmosphere of collaboration, where your students can reflect back on what they have written, and how they can give it more depth, more pizzazz.
Encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, where your students can reflect back on what they have written, and how they can give it more depth, more pizzazz.
Overused words - Use this - not this!
Overused words - Use this - not this!
Publishing Short Stories
Publishing Short Stories
What is the Story?
What is the Story?
Andrew Stanton The clues to a great story_abridged.mp4
Mind Mapping Aids in Developing Ideas. Read below
Mind Mapping Aids in Developing Ideas. Read below
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