Creative WritingAllison Juckett

EnglishIntended for Grades 7–9

Technology Integration Rationale

As the digital revolution rapidly changes the lives we live, it is also influencing our education system and how we need to teach in order to fully engage our students. It is important for teachers to incorporate technology into creative writing lessons, because although writing with a pen and paper may be falling to the wayside, writing itself certainly is not. In fact, creative writing skills are being seen in more and more jobs than ever before. Incorporating technology into lessons deepens the students’ understanding and furthers them in their preparation to function in tomorrow’s evolving society.

Evaluation and Citation of Internet

• All websites that are used in this presentation prove to be reliable sources of information that relate to teaching creative writing.• Some slide have directions to click on pictures or links that will direct you to the original site and have links cited in the notes section.

Blog

• This blog, by authos Barbara Simpson Carducci, encourages young writers to embrace their inner creativity in its posts that range from grammar tips to writing prompts. This blog would be a great additional resource for the English classroom, that would especially benefit the students that are interested in looking further into creative writing.

Click on the picture to visit the Blog.

Podcast from This I Believe …

This Podcast is one of the weekly free downloadable podcast from This I Believe on itunes. Teachers can have their students read sample statements from anyone who has published one, listen to the poscasts, and write and publish their own This I believe statement.

Click on the sound clip to hear one of the podcasts!

The Writing Process• This video is a rap

about The Writing Process and would be an interesting way to being the unit on The Writing Process, which would get the students actively engaged and excited to learn about this topic!

Click on the picture for an interactive video!

Useful Literary Terms to Use in your Writing

This video is an introduction of Literary terms using popular music to display them. It is important to capture student interest in order to create learning.

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Internet Resources

• Teachers First – Teachers first is teacher resource web site that is run by educations. It is offered as a service to teachers by The Source for Learning, a non-profit learning and technologies corporation. 

• Awesome Library – The Awesome Library organizes a plethora of Education sources organized by subject. It includes resources like lesson plans, materials, and projects.

• ProQuest k-12 – Proquest K-12 is an educational search database aimed to aid teachers in digitally organizing data and information for the future.

Click on the hyperlinks for the websites!

Inspiration• This writing

exercise that I created using Inspiration is similar to a graphic organizer or brainstorm web, where students irst brainstorm single words about a scene and then develop it further in a paragraph.

Teaching Materials• Read Write

Think provides teachers with a lot of materials for many subjects, including this worksheet that helps students begin to write creatively using imagery.

Teaching Materials

This handout, from Read Write Think, allows students to have a guide for them as they begin to write, and continue in the process so that they can keep key points in mind, allowing their writing to prosper and expand.

Teaching Materials – Games!

• All of these websites have different types of games that can help students to improve in their writing, whether it be through vocabulary or writing activities. The Teen Writing site would be a good way to get students comfortable before assigning writing that would be graded and the other two are great to improve vocabulary through thesaurus and dictionary games. The Rice Up game, as an added bonus donates an ounce of rice for each correct answer to a child in need, which could be a diversion into a small diversity lesson!

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Subject-Specific Internet-based Resource

This website is an excellent resource for English teachers of all grades. It provides lesson plans, project ideas, as well as many other helpful things for the classroom. I really enjoyed the creative writing ideas that I came across while searching their writing section.

Click on the picture for the links!

Uses of Internet

National Novel Writing Month is a celebration of writing during the month of November and has caught the attention of many aspiring writers of all ages. Their young writers program has a lot of resources for students that are aspiring writers. They also have an educator section that provides resources that can incorporate creative writing through NANOWRIMO in the classroom.

Uses of Internet

This website offers an extensive list of literary students that are easily accessible for students. There are also example of each device in order to help students understand them better..

Click on the picture above for the link!

Uses of Internet

Cliff Notes is an extremely helpful website for students to use in many subjects. They have an entire section for creative writing where they offer tips on writing and helpful organizational tools that bring the student all the way through the writing process.

Click on the picture above for the link!

Web 2.0• Students and teachers

are able to share documents quickly and easily using Google Docs. This would be productive to use in and outside the classroom for peer editing. Having the papers online is better than peer editing on paper because multiple students can read it at a time and it can not get lost!

Click on the picture for a video of a class using Google Docs for peer editing!

“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.”- William Faulkner

“It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.”- Ernest Hemingway