Writing Activities & Assignments Persuasive, Narrative, Expository, Descriptive
Writing Activities & Assignments - Persuasive, Narrative, Expository, Descriptive: Ignite your students' creativity and improve their writing skills with this comprehensive Writing Challenge resource. Featuring 20 engaging activities, students will explore various writing types including persuasive, narrative, expository, poetry, descriptive, and more. Each activity offers a unique opportunity for students to practice the writing type in a fun and engaging way! The eye-catching bulletin board that reveals the challenge will hook even your most reluctant writers.
How The Writing Challenge Activities Bundle Works:
- Teachers set up "The Writing Challenge" bulletin board display that includes 20 hidden activity prompts as well as all the assignments, handouts, and resources you need to teach these concepts.
- Once a challenge is revealed, the teacher finds the corresponding activity, assignments, or handouts in the folder, passes it out to the class, and they are ready to go!
- These challenges are best used weekly or bi-weekly. Some activities may take 15 minutes, some may take half a class, while others may even take a full class or two (depending on how much you want students to write)!
Activities Included In The Writing Challenge:
The writing challenge includes 20 high-interest writing activities that cover a broad range of writing types including narrative, expository, persuasive, poetry, informative, and more! Below are just few of the prompts to give you a sense of the types of challenges included:
- Improve the word choice of a descriptive paragraph about being cold.
- Edit the grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors in celebrity social media posts.
- Write a Japanese Haiku.
- Teach us how to blow a bubble with gum. (Instructional writing)
- Improve an e-mail written to a teacher.
- Integrate 3 types of figurative language into a paragraph.
- Write a paragraph that shows rather than tells.
Types of Writing Included In The Writing Challenge:
The Writing Challenge covers a wide range of writing types. Below are the different writing types that students will practice with this resource:
- Descriptive Writing
- Persuasive Writing
- Review Writing
- Informative Writing
- Formal Writing
- Biographies
- E-Mail Writing
- Narrative Writing
- Poetry Writing
- Creative Writing
- Expository Writing
Types of Writing Skills Included In The Writing Challenge:
The writing challenge covers a variety of writing skills and standards in a fun and engaging way. Below is a list of some of the skills your students will practice with these fun activities:
- Using imagery and sensory details
- Improving word choice
- Using research to write
- Using emotion in writing
- How to inform in writing
- Tips for improving formal writing
- Writing organization
- Paragraph structure
- Following a writing formula
- Proper e-mail etiquette
- Showing vs. telling
- Editing (grammar, punctuation, and spelling)
Included in The Writing Challenge:
➡️ Writing Challenge Board Teacher Instructions: Seamlessly set up your Writing Challenge Board with detailed teacher instructions accompanied by helpful pictures, ensuring a smooth process.
➡️ Master List of Writing Challenges: Access a comprehensive master list of writing challenges, organized in sequential order for easy reference and tracking.
➡️ Materials to Set Up Writing Challenge Board: Use these included materials and templates to set up your Writing Challenge Board, including a template for the folding envelopes, the writing challenge prompts, posters, and circular stickers to hold the envelopes closed.
➡️ All Writing Challenge Materials: For each of the challenges revealed on the board, an accompanying assignment is provided. Absolutely everything you need is provided to facilitate the writing challenges. With over 65 pages of materials, you'll be totally ready to go. There are posters, pre-writing planning sheets, information handouts, templates, and more!
➡️ Challenge Folder Labels: Organize your Writing Challenge materials efficiently with folder labels for each challenge, ensuring easy access and management of resources.
What Teachers Are Saying About the Writing Challenge Activities:
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