Writing Activities Submitted by DWP Teachers

Teachers who participated in the Dakota Writing Project's Summer Institute share instructions and ideas for writing activities--note that some of these pieces are in early-draft stages.

American History: Getting to the Good Stuff . . . and Writing About It! by Lela Lambert
http://www.usd.edu/engl/DWP/activities/history.html

Author of the Week: A Parent/Child Writing and Publishing Project by Cheryl Austad
http://www.usd.edu/engl/DWP/activities/authorofweek.html

Class Scrapbook History by Jon Huber
http://www.usd.edu/engl/DWP/activities/scrapbook1.html

Exercises in Metaphor by Reva Potter
http://www.usd.edu/engl/DWP/activities/metaphorexercises.html

Feature Writing (Journalistic Writing) by Jason Lueth
http://www.usd.edu/engl/DWP/activities/featurestory1.html

Finding a Voice or Developing Character by Lil Manthei
http://www.usd.edu/engl/DWP/activities/findingvoice.html

Getting Students to Write: Prompts Relevant to Their Lives by Lil Manthei
http://www.usd.edu/engl/DWP/activities/gettingstudentstowrite.html

Grounding Your Writing Classroom by Sue Morrell
http://www.usd.edu/engl/DWP/activities/grounding.html

In a Child's Eye: Prewriting Activity for a Children's Storybook by Cyndy Demers
http://www.usd.edu/engl/DWP/activities/storybook.html

Opening the Doors to the Classroom: A Walking Photo Poem by Heather Gayken and Mike Fitzgerald
http://www.usd.edu/engl/DWP/activities/photopoem.html

Also see Report on This Activity, When DWP Teachers Tried It, by Mike Fitzgerald.
http://www.usd.edu/engl/DWP/activities/walkabout.html

Using Interesting Words to Inspire Writing by Catherine Wahl Carlson
http://www.usd.edu/engl/DWP/activities/wordlist.html

Writing Activity Using Literature: A Lesson in Kindness by Tracy Bloch
http://www.usd.edu/engl/DWP/activities/kindness.html

Writing an Oral History by Kriss Ibis
http://www.usd.edu/engl/DWP/activities/oralhistory.html