Description
While some students may have a natural knack for writing, others may need help learning how to grow this skill. A little bit of inspiration goes a long way in helping them learn to stretch their creative writing muscles. In this 1-hour course, Creativity Disclaimer — Your Kids May Fall in Love with Writing, award-winning educator Shannon Anderson shares her best tips for learning creative ways to inspire kids to write.
Ms. Anderson is a 25-year veteran educator, children’s book author, and speaker. Her passion is helping students cultivate a love for reading and writing, as well as helping educators find creative ways to inspire kids to write. Ms. Anderson helps make creative writing fun, exciting, and something to look forward to.
After taking this course, you’ll walk away with a better understanding of:
- How to set up a writer’s notebook
- Using figurative language in writing
- Word choice in writing
- How to use quotes
- Playing with rhymes
- Creative writing exercises to get your students thinking
- How to organize a story
Extend your learning and earn another CPE credit! This course has a recorded Virtual Extended Learning Session where Lisa Van Gemert provides strategies and application tips. Click Here: Creativity Disclaimer: Your Kids May Fall in Love with Writing! – Extended Learning Session
Yadira – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was extremely informative.
Lauren – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
Great for elementary school english teachers!
Lynda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informational and good insights from a teacher.
Velma – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great strategies to have students engaged.
Michael – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
useful
Sara – Napoleon Area City Schools (verified owner) –
I loved the ideas and examples given in this course.
Kirsten – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
I love that it went into depth about different styles of figurative language, because our students LOVE figurative language and can really make their writing more interesting and descriptive, when they learn how to use and write it.
Susan – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
fun
Daisy – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Love the ideas!
Rebeca – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
I love the ideas that it gave when using mentor texts.
Amanda – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
Love this and I have so many books already to continue to use books to help anchor our writing.
Nerissa – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
The presentation is very helpful with tips and resources to use to get students engaged in writing. I enjoyed the creative examples to do with young writers. I will be using these in my classroom.
LANETTE – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
I love Shannon Anderson’s courses. I have learned so much.
Isolda – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Love her, she’s so enthusiastic and her mentor texts ideas are great to implement in class.
Ileana – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I LOVE all the ideas Shannon shared along with the mentor texts she provided.
Rosa – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
excellent training
Mary – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This is an amazing course. Lots of wonderful ideas!!
Kimberly – HILLSBORO CITY (verified owner) –
This video is full of amazing ideas that can be used in the classroom right away.
Olivia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed and loved how she explains.
Andi – CHESAPEAKE UNION EXEMPTED VILLAGE (verified owner) –
Wonderful writing ideas!
Sandra – COMFORT ISD (verified owner) –
Although the presenter used a lot of story books and this might seem like it is geared more towards elementary grades, I took away a lot of ideas that I will be able to use in my senior level creative writing class with just a little dash of additional rigor.
KIMBERLY – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
Perfect refresher!
Trista – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This has so many wonderful ideas for teaching writing in elementary classrooms.
Fatima – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas and information!
Omar – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This gave some really good ideas to get students writing. Very practical tips!
Karen – RIESEL ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Tara – CLEAR CREEK ISD (verified owner) –
The course content is extremely helpful and easily accessible. The examples and strategies require little to no prep to incorporate into writing workshop.
Elizabeth – HALLETTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great training!
Gabriela – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This training provided great activities that are easy to implement for students to help them gain more confidence as writers but also to enjoy and have fun with writiing.
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very well organized and informative. It covered important techniques of writing.
Melissa – EAST CHAMBERS ISD (verified owner) –
very informative
Bridget – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Love this presenter and everything she has recorded so far.
KIMBERLY – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of great ideas here!
Karen – EAST CHAMBERS ISD (verified owner) –
Great illustrations and examples uses of types of children’s literature
Alexandra – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
This is one of my favorite courses I’ve taken on this platform.