The Best Story and Writing Prompt Journal Ever, Grades 5-6: Story Prompts, Brainstorming Exercises, and Prewriting Techniques to Inspire Young Creative Writers

by Grammaropolis

Overview

Learn about the purposes for writing, brainstorm with eight different prewriting exercises, and put it all into practice with hilarious writing prompts. Finally, a prompt journal that will take you through the whole writing process!

From Grammaropolis, the revolutionary “Schoolhouse Rock! for the 21st Century,” comes a story and writing prompt journal that will teach you how to write and have fun doing it!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781644420515
Publisher:	Grammaropolis
Publication date:	04/27/2021
Series:	Grammaropolis Writing Journals
Pages:	106
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.28(d)
Age Range:	10 - 13 Years

About the Author

Grammaropolis is where grammar lives! Hailed as the "Schoolhouse Rock! for the 21st Century", Grammaropolis combines traditional instruction and assessment with our innovative, story-based lessons featuring personified parts of speech and punctuation marks. Our engaging and effective approach has revolutionized the way millions of students learn about grammar and writing.

Featuring bossy adverbs, shady pronouns, and the other parts of speech; no-drama Chief Comma and the rest of the Punctuation Department; and a Sentence Factory run by the Mayor himself, Grammaropolis achieves the seemingly impossible: we make learning grammar fun!

Table of Contents

Purposes of Writing 7

Prewriting 9

Prewriting Techniques 11

Prewriting Technique Examples 12

Freewrite 13

Brainstorm 14

Cluster 15

5W&H 16

Venn Diagram 17

Five Senses 18

Series of Events 19

Character Sketch 20

Writing 21

Writing Exercise How-to 23

Writing Exercise #1 24

Writing Exercise #2 28

Writing Exercise #3 32

Writing Exercise #4 36

Writing Exercise #5 40

Writing Exercise #6 44

Writing Exercise #7 48

Writing Exercise #8 52

Writing Exercise #9 56

Writing Exercise #10 60

Writing Exercise #11 64

Writing Exercise #12 68

Writing Exercise #13 72

Writing Exercise #14 76

Writing Exercise #15 80

Writing Exercise #16 84

Writing Exercise #17 88

Writing Exercise #18 92

Writing Exercise #19 96

Writing Exercise #20 100

Writing Exercise #21 104

Writing Exercise #22 108

Editorial Reviews

The linguistic insights are pure gold. – WIRED Magazine

Learning grammar has never been so much fun. – School Library Journal

A fun, interactive tool used to enrich learning that our 6th grade students and staff really enjoy! – Michelle Keneck, Middle School Instructional Coach; Lake in the Hills, IL

Thanks for creating a fun way to learn grammar. Most grammar curriculum is boring and makes it too difficult. Yours is awesome. – Karen Steele, 2nd Grade Teacher; Tucson, AZ

[Grammaropolis] gives us the opportunity to review grammar in an engaging way that can then be reinforced with teaching and using grammar in context. – Kimberly Whybrew, Elementary Dean of Students; Fairmount, IN

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