Creative Paragraph Writing: Fun and Easy Ages 7-12
Tammy Wenhame, Certified Educator
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Average rating:5.0Number of reviews:(1,524)
Spark your child's love for creative writing! Students use stories to master creative writing, paragraph structure, sensory details, and transition words. Teacher with 5000+ Outschool learners, 1500+ 5-star reviews!
Class experience
US Grade 2 - 5
Beginner - Intermediate Level
Stories are a great way to help Outschoolers learn new writing and vocabulary and work towards mastering important writing skills. This course features stories that take an amusing look at writing with funny story plots to illustrate the writing process and draw attention to various writing techniques. 🌟 With over 5000 learners successfully taught on Outschool, I bring a wealth of experience and expertise to the virtual classroom. 🎓 The proof is in the numbers—over 1500 5-star reviews from...
6 lessons//3 Weeks
Week 1Lesson 1The Sandwich Paragraph! (Paragraph Structure)Mastering the parts of a perfect paragraph! Let's write a sandwich-inspired paragraph!Lesson 2Design a Trading CardBring your sandwich writing to life!Week 2Lesson 3Build a Better Donut! (Sensory Details)Paragraph writing technique: Writing with extreme sensory detail. Build a Better Donut writing project is a fun way for Outschoolers to improve and practice descriptive writing skills. Students will design new and unique donuts and use sensory details to describe their donut creation in this project. Story: Arnie the DonutLesson 4Create Your Donut MasterpieceBring your donut writing to life!Week 3Lesson 5How to Prepare the Perfect Snack for Dragon (Transition Words)Paragraph writing technique: Writing with transition words and order of events. Dragons and tacos make for the perfect opportunity to master sequence (how-to) writing. In this project, Outschoolers 'write' the way to prepare the perfect snack for a dragon. Story: Dragons Love TacosLesson 6Turn in your Final Drafts!We've mastered order of event writing, so it's time to send in your final writing!
This class is taught in English.
Mastering the basic writing process allows students to become strong, confident writers and readers. Outschoolers will benefit the most from this class if they have a limited understanding of writing rules. Students who have a basic knowledge of grammar. Spelling and sentence structure errors will occur, and that is to be expected as your student masters the writing process.
My educational goal is to enable your student to become engaged in grammar with active reading, hands-on activities, and inspiring projects By tapping into your Outschooler's natural enthusiasm for learning, they are active and engaged in their educational process. I have taught over 4,000+ Outschool students, and logged more than 900+ Outschool teaching hours, in engaging, instructional, and inspiring English Language courses. I am a certified and licensed K-8th grade instructor. My educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts in English, Communications, and Print Media. You will find more about my Outschool teaching journey on various media outlets, including CBS New York, Business Insider, and the American Board for Teacher Excellence.
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Stories read in class are from Storyline Online, read by Screen Actor Guild Members
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Average rating:5.0Number of reviews:(1,524)
Hi, my name is Tammy, a homeschooling mom of 10 years with my primary instructional experience in grades K-8th! I am a certified Elementary Education Instructor through the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence Alternative...
Self-Paced Class
$10
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1 year of access to the content
Completed by 238 learners
Ages: 7-12
