Ten Creative Writing Activities

While they are all phrased for creative writing assignments here, many of them could be revised to work for other kinds of essays. The Show & Tell assignment and the Scavenger Hunt assignment, for example, could easily become descriptive essays. The Childhood Place short story could be revised to be a personal narrative. http://www.tengrrl.com/tens/017.shtml My favorite is the Jumble Story. My students are currently working on this assignment. After they have completed the required writing I hope to record some students reading their stories and then have them create a narration, with illustrations, using Microsoft Movie Maker.

Web 2.0

"Web 2.0" is commonly associated with web development and web design that facilitates interactive information sharing, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web.
Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher, http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listweb20s.html, is an excellent resource that includes references for creating podcasts, blogs, wikis, etc. There are also a large number of resources for online productivity and organizational tools. Choose a site or two a day to check out!