Writing Ideas

The Pair-mail message
Make students work in pairs. Each student takes a role in writing a message to each other. Then students exchange the messages two or three times, building on each other's replies. This works well online too.
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Write to a friendly object
Ask students to take a personal object out. Then randomly assign students' object to another student. Tell the receiver of the object to write a friendly message to the object their received using their creative writing skills. Then invite students to share their messages with the group.
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Write to your own object
Same as the previous activity, write a lovely letter to something really important students have on them. Invite creative ideas to show in their writing.
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