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
Erika – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
Loved it! Shannon provided (almost) too many great ideas on how to get students excited about writing! So simple, but seemingly very effective strategies and lessons. I love the different read alouds she referenced as models for teaching.
Becky – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This was an AMAZING course with so much information and ideas. As it was just an hour course, I spent 3 hours on it taking notes and really experiencing it so that I could really understand and engage with it. I learned so much!!!!
Denise – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
I really liked this course!! I think Shannon Anderson is awesome and has some engaging ideas to help students learn.
Sara – ANTWERP LOCAL (verified owner) –
Creative ideas
Alecia – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas for the classroom!
Scott – BLANCHESTER LOCAL (verified owner) –
It’s good.
Julie – KENT CITY (verified owner) –
Lots of great ideas!
Tracy – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
I don’t feel that this module was helpful to secondary teachers.
Jonathan – TEAYS VALLEY LOCAL (verified owner) –
Great ideas and suggestions
Heidi – Yellow Springs Exempted Village (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Jessica – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Great literature examples to model specific writing skills.
Leighann – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas that are fun and exciting to try with students.
Michelle – PIQUA CITY (verified owner) –
Great examples of Mentor text for writing
Katherine – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
This course gave a lot of great very doable ideas to help inspire students to become writers!
Tara – ROSCOE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and interesting with LOTS of writing ideas to take back and immediately implement in the classroom.
Kim – ST MARYS CITY (verified owner) –
I love Shannon Anderson!! She has many great ideas and seems very sweet.
Maren – CIRCLEVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
This had so many helpful mentor text resources and many ideas to help my gifted learners learn to be creative thinkers.
Shawna – CRESTVIEW LOCAL – VAN WERT COUNTY (verified owner) –
This was fantastic !! I felt this was centered more for elementary teachers, but I could definitely use some of the information shared in my 8th grade classroom.
K – GREEN LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course provides a wide variety of activities that could work in the classroom depending on the age.
Angela – Colonel Crawford Local Schools (verified owner) –
The course was helpful in providing a variety of examples of different ways of writing to express ideas. I would have liked to see more actual teaching modeling and techniques, what it looks like in a classroom instead of being read to for so long.
Randeee – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Love this
Kyle – RIDGEWOOD LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course was a great way to provide educators different ways to make writing creative. For instance, using and teaching students to use figurative language is a great way to make their writing come to life and be more enjoyable to read. This course also provided great techniques to use when trying to help writers become better at their craft.
Nicole – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
I love this course instructor and how she gives so many strategies to engage students in learning and growing their skills.
Melinda – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –
The presenter was fine and she had great ideas. I should have read the description more to make sure it was for a grade level/age I teach. It was more for younger ages. I could use these as jumping off points but would have to do a lot more to use it for high school.
Jessica – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –
This course was full of examples on how to make writing engaging and fun.
Renee – BIG WALNUT LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course was beneficial and provided a multitude of ideas to easily incorporate in the classroom to foster creativity in writing.
Amy – LEANDER ISD (verified owner) –
This should not be listed for secondary. It is unhelpful.
Allison – PARMA CITY (verified owner) –
Shannon Anderson is a very engaging presenter with very usable ideas for the classroom.
Debra – Yellow Springs Exempted Village (verified owner) –
Great presenter with very useful examples.
Brenda – CRESTVIEW LOCAL – VAN WERT COUNTY (verified owner) –
There were a lot of great mentor texts shown to help spark writing.
Amy – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
What a wonderful course that is filled with fun, everyday ideas to get our kids excited about writing!
Jeananne – Yellow Springs Exempted Village (verified owner) –
So many great ideas!
Whitney – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Shannon is great!!
Amy – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
It was really informative.
MacKenna – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This course gave fabulous examples of how mentor texts can be used to help cultivate students’ love for reading and writing!
Sarah – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Useful information about mentor texts to engage students in writing. Loved it!
Leah – SPRINGFIELD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
well-done
Carrie – BETHEL LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course was very informative with very good examples
Cory – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
Shannon is a great speaker and goes beyond some nuts and bolts to giving big, fun ideas that are adaptable at grade levels above those she has taught.
Tierney – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
Good ideas for writing at the elementary level.
Sangeetha – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Gives creative ideas for the classroom.
I am looking forward to use a few of the writing ideas in my classroom that I have learnt from here.
Maria – PIQUA CITY (verified owner) –
Adding some new tools to my toolkit!
Amanda – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course.
Renee – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas with so many examples of mentor texts to use to get kids writing creatively!
Dustin – LANCASTER CITY (verified owner) –
Excellent content. Although I teach MS ( I was an elementary teacher/principal), there so many outstanding ideas to use with students in this presentation. If you can’t find an idea to help your kids “love writing,” you probably haven’t watched the presentation. Shannon makes reading text, books, and presenting her own information fun and enjoyable! She is a great presenter and sometimes I feel like I am back in elementary school listening to one of my favorite teachers read!
Kristina – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Great module to get you excited to teach writing – the presenter is electrifying with her passion for teaching writing. Great examples- you are equipped to start a lesson tomorrow!
Lacie – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of creative writing ideas.
Rob – BIG WALNUT LOCAL (verified owner) –
Very useful information presented of which nothing was reflected in the “quiz.”
Madison – ELYRIA CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Very good.
Claudia – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
This is a good course for young writers.