Title and Story Pictures Children produce a picture to summarize a problem in a story.		State Your Case About Packaging Children brainstorm letters to companies about how to package products more efficiently.
Fiction-Writing Content Rubric Analyze your student's fiction-writing with this organizational rubric.		Bollingen Prize in Poetry The Bollingen Prize in Poetry is a $50,000 award, given biennially, from 1949 to present-day.
Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One By isolating basic story elements including setting, characters, problem, and solution show...		Emily Dickinson -- Selected Poems -- Series One This selection of Emily Dickinson's poems gives students the opportunity to experience one of...
Aunt Isabel Makes Trouble Students will be introduced to more complex issues of story development while observing how a...		The Rights of Bike Riders Students will write a letter to the editor of a newspaper in reaction to the bicycle helmet...
Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One and Aunt Isabel Makes Trouble Create a memorable storytelling unit for your class with the help of this teacher's guide.		A Collection of Poetry Activities This collection of ideas will help students to love poetry from creation to recitation.
Heartfelt Greetings Children draft a letter to someone they care about to let them know how they feel. This is a...		Explore Poetry with Emily Dickinson Students will immerse themselves in the poems of Emily Dickinson by writing, researching,...
The Accordion-Folded Pop-Up Art Book This project will enable children to create beautiful books to house any number of...		Nursery Rhyme Collection Thirteen of the most popular nursery rhymes are collected here.
Shape Poems Shape poems resemble the subject matter in form and are fun for children to try.		Discover Nursery Rhymes This assortment of activities will help your students to love nursery rhymes.
St. Patrick's Day ABCs Children put words in alphabetical order, and then use them to write a story about St....		Describe the Rainy Day Write sentences describing what you would see, feel, smell, and hear on a rainy day.
Recycled Poetry Students use words from newspapers and magazines to make "found" poetry. This is a great way...		Writing from the Heart Creative writing assignments encourage thoughtfulness and originality.