Teachers Pay Teachers Reviews


Teachers Pay Teachers is a wonderful website I've begun selling on in the past couple of months. It's been amazing to see what some of the other teachers and sellers on the site have come up with. Myself and my editor friend Ashley Daoust decided to start writing some reviews of a few of the free and premium products on this fantastic site. We hope you enjoy them!

By promoting literacy for children with short manageable stories, Knowonder Magazine is successful at making reading a daily habit for kids. The store Brain Candy for Young Scholars offers a brain teaser and vocabulary building packet called Back to School Brain Teaser and Vocabulary Builder that allows students to learn new words and get practice planning and writing essays. For teachers looking to give their students practice with poetry, short stories and short narrative writing during the winter time, Winter Creative Writing Activities is a fantastic resource.

Limericks are funny and teaching students about them can be even funnier on St. Patrick's Day with the
Laughing at Limericks handout. For students who are equal parts craft fiend and writing extraordinaire, test out the My Pet Monster Craftivity to satisfy their dual creative desires. For some writing prompts during the month of November, teachers can use the November Creative Writing Prompts activity to supplement a classroom's writing workshop.

By combining both visual and written creativity,
Shape Writing is a successful activity that adds a new aspect to traditional writing assignments. Teaching how to properly create a paragraph and edit? The Paragraph Writing Hamburger Style assignment will serve both angles. Deep Memory Poem is a 60- to 90-minute assignment that helps students craft a personal poem based on memory.

Help your students to develop their understanding of character development using the
Character Sketch activity on Teachers Pay Teachers. Promote higher-level thinking and writing skills with the Squiggles and Giggles activity. With 26 full pages of word-related activities, the Finding Words Literacy Pack can help students to build vocabulary and write in an interesting way.

Working on poems written about people? Check out the
Bio Poems Made Easy activity. The Cereal Box Activity download helps students to find reading material everywhere, even on cereal boxes. Using the popular Katy Perry song, Firework, the Firework Figurative Language and Poetic Devices language activity helps students analyze the song and learn about literary devices.

The
Alphabet Book Template gives younger students the opportunity to come up with his or her own alphabet book. If you're teaching the five-sentence paragraph, Descriptive Writing Paragraph Starters can help you take two different approaches to detailed descriptive writing. Further descriptive writing practice can be employed with the Descriptive Writing Picture Prompts activity on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Revisit the cereal box with the
Cereal Box Autobiography activity , or have your students put their heads together with the Collaborative Comparison Poems . And if that’s not enough of a change for your classroom, give the Disgusting Creative Writing Challenge a try.

Practice writing essays and encourage peer review using the
Historical Fiction Story Rubric . Introduce a magnetic poetry kit in your classroom for a little change of pace. Or have your young writes build their own writing office !

Any writer could benefit from this very handy list of words that will help
improve word choice . There are all sorts of fun ideas for using blank postcards at home or in the classroom – what will you do with them? Sometimes haiku gets all the good press, but students who learn pensee poem writing will have a leg up in the structured poetry world.

Youngsters can learn all about what makes good writing good with these
six writing traits lessons that help bring literary concepts to life. This kid-friendly writing rubric will help any budding author fine-tune his or her stories. Need something even more basic? Try this word work vocabulary packet for those who are newest to the English language. Young students who have the Elf on the Shelf tradition in their homes may appreciate these Elf on the Shelf writing center activities , or have students write their own wintry, wondering essays to create a winter “wonder"land bulletin board kit .

Have a topic you want to explore in your next novel or essay? Use the Narrow a Topic worksheet to get an idea of where you're headed. But first, learn about questions with two feet to help get your brain moving. For classrooms in need of some Christmas activities, try the Christmas Brain Busters and Activities packet. Or just get your students writing with these 100 writing prompt labels.

Many folks, not just family researchers, will benefit from having this list of U.S. Genealogy Resources Online handy. Learn additional library skills with the Dewey Decimal Classification System PowerPoint. Tap your inner linguist with the Test Your Kurdish Learning Ability warm-up, or take a different approach to language analysis with Teaching Analogies.



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Written by Bryan Cohen

Bryan Cohen is the author of more than 30 books, many of which focus on creative writing and blasting through that pesky writer's block. His books have sold more than 20,000 copies. You can find him on and Facebook.
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