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This resource will support educators through the process of co-creating Community Agreements with students.
Center students in the community-building process by co-creating community agreements.
This resource will support educators in building a classroom community through writing.
Find activities and Sparks for promoting inclusion, connection, and community through writing.
This tool provides educators resources for engaging in the revision process with students.
Find strategies for approaching and practicing revision, including tips from authors like Amanda Gorman and Tiphanie Yanique.
This guide offers an abundance of resources to help students practice the basic elements that make up a short story.
See resources from 826 that focus on short story elements, including plot development, characterization, conflict, and dialogue.
A flexible, stackable series of weekly writing units that invite students to write with authentic purpose.
Students will write to reflect, write to connect, write to create, and write to advocate for themselves and their community.
A flexible, stackable series of weekly writing units that invite students to write with authentic purpose.
Students will write to reflect, write to connect, write to create, and write to advocate for themselves and their community.
A flexible, stackable series of weekly writing units that invite students to write with authentic purpose.
Students will write to reflect, write to connect, write to create, and write to advocate for themselves and their community.
A flexible, stackable series of weekly writing units that invite students to write with authentic purpose.
Students will write to reflect, write to connect, write to create, and write to advocate for themselves and their community.
This poetry prompt from Ada Limón invites students to consider a personal connection to an animal.
This poetry prompt from Ada Limón invites students to consider a personal connection to an animal.
Students recall “last times” in their lives and revisit the depth of their experience through writing.
Students recall “last times” in their lives and revisit the depth of their experience through writing.
Students will write a personal narrative where they describe themselves as a place. Not a specific place, but all the things a "place" consists of.
In this Spark from Jason Reynolds, students will write a personal narrative where they describe themselves as a place. Not a specific place, but all the things a "place" consists of.
Students revisit powerful memories to generate personal stories filled with heart.
Students revisit powerful memories to generate personal stories filled with heart.
This Spark asks students to write a poem that celebrates the ordinary objects and figures in their lives.
This poetry prompt from Rachel Eliza Griffiths asks students to consider the ordinary in their lives—then write a poem that celebrates those ordinary objects and figures.
What lives inside a word? Find out how to trace connections between two dissimilar words with this playful Spark from award-winning poet Aracelis Girmay.
What lives inside a word? Find out how to trace connections between two dissimilar words with this playful Spark from award-winning poet Aracelis Girmay.
Students examine relationships between art, poetry, politics, and current events, and reflect on personal experiences while writing social justice poetry.
In this lesson, students explore the relationship between poetry and politics and current events.
Students consider perspectives of activists speaking up against racism and police brutality following the death of George Floyd and use imagery to capture protest scenes in writing.
Students consider perspectives of activists speaking up against racism and police brutality following the death of George Floyd and use imagery to capture protest scenes in writing.
In this lesson, students explore the genres of historical and speculative fiction before they reimagine a time they felt powerless and write a different outcome.
In this lesson, students explore the genres of historical and speculative fiction before they reimagine a time they felt powerless and write a different outcome.
Students create an identity chart and write about parts of their identity most salient to them.
Students create an identity chart and write about parts of their identity most salient to them.
This Spark creates an intentional opportunity for youth to write and speak about what is on their minds.
Writing can be a powerful tool when working through feelings of grief, sadness, or anger. This Spark creates an intentional opportunity for youth to write and speak about what is on their minds.
In this Spark, students will explore two taboo emotions, desire and fear, by mapping where these feelings dwell in their bodies and using tactile language to describe their impact.
In this Spark, students will explore two taboo emotions, desire and fear, by mapping where these feelings dwell in their bodies and using tactile language to describe their impact.
In this social-emotional learning writing prompt, students write about strategies for recognizing and overcoming the feeling of overwhelm.
In this social-emotional learning writing prompt, students write about strategies for recognizing and overcoming the feeling of overwhelm.
In this social-emotional learning writing prompt, students reflect on the sound of feelings and use onomatopoeias in their poetry.
In this social-emotional learning writing prompt, students reflect on the sound of feelings and use onomatopoeias in their poetry.
Students create an identity chart and write about parts of their identity most salient to them.
Students create an identity chart and write about parts of their identity most salient to them.
Students will identify their favorite sensory memories and transfer them to a visual heart map.
Students will identify their favorite sensory memories and transfer them to a visual heart map.
In this social-emotional learning writing prompt, students create a poem that shares the "happys" in their life.
In this social-emotional learning writing prompt, students create a poem that shares the "happys" in their life.
Why does kindness count? Students consider acts of kindness that they’ve experienced and reflect on the difference that kindness makes in the world.
Why does kindness count? Students consider acts of kindness that they’ve experienced and reflect on the difference that kindness makes in the world.
In this lesson, students will imagine a narrative in the form of a craigslist advertisement to showcase a typically scary monster as a down to earth creature.
In this lesson, students will imagine a narrative in the form of a craigslist advertisement to showcase a typically scary monster as a down to earth creature.
Students will report about their favorite neighborhood places and write a review about the most special one.
Students will report about their favorite neighborhood places and write a review about the most special one.
Students write to process change in their communities as a result of the pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic changed our lives. This lesson will support students in processing the changes in their everyday lives and help them to identify the creativity their community has exhibited.
Emotions play a big role in how we remember places important to us. Students explore this notion, writing a memoirs about a significant place.
Emotions play a big role in how we remember places important to us. Students explore this notion, writing a memoirs about a significant place.
An effective writing prompt about a significant threshold.
An effective writing prompt about a significant threshold.
Students identify the power of imagery in poetry, then practice putting this power to use in a poem about their neighborhood.
Students identify the power of imagery in poetry, then practice putting this power to use in a poem about their neighborhood.
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