Writing activity: Write a personal narrative story about a time in your life when you may have felt pressure to be perfect and the things you did to overcome that feeling. Carefully select words to bring an emphasis to how you felt within your story.

Writing Activity: Have the students listen to specific music and draw scribbles about how they feel during each song with the freedom to use different colors. When the students are done listening and drawing they must create a narrative story based on the images.

Writing activity: Write down one word and create a word web or mind map with words and phrases that connect to that idea. Create a narrative story based on the word web/mind map.

Writing activity: Have students each draw an image and post it to create a classroom gallery. Have other students select an image from the gallery to create a narrative story about.

Writing activity: Write a story that you may have heard growing up in your family. Feel free to write the story in the language you are most comfortable writing in or write key vocabulary words in your native language.

Writing activity: Write a kind letter to a friend like Parmesan Pig wrote to Taco Turtle. Include something to brighten their day such as a compliment or some words of encouragement! Try to make your words flow and follow proper letter formatting.

Writing Activity: have students write down good choices and poor choices that they can make in certain situations. Have them write a reflection on why they should do one over the other and how it can impact the classroom community if one or more student's make a poor choice.

Writing activity: have students write words of affirmations on sticky notes and post them around the classroom. When all students are done have them go select one that they did not write and use it to write a motto/montra for them to refer to when they need words of encouragement.

Writing Activity: Create a haiku about your feelings towards writing. Does it excite you? Make you feel nervous?

This category will help guide the reader through the text making it easy to read and understand. We can help the writers strengthen conventions by encouraging the correct spelling of words that matter and using punctuation to enhance the meaning of a text.

Writing Activity: Students will play a game of telephone and reflect on how the sentence changed from the beginning to the middle to the end. They will then create a narrative story with a clear sequence of events through the use of transition words like first, next, last.

Writing Activity: Write a persuasive essay about something you are passionate about. What is your topic? Who is your audience? Make sure your word choice is powerful!

Writing Activity: Construct a comic strip that tells a story using speech bubbles and dialogue.

Writing Activity: Have the students become punctuation detectives and read through a few sentences to detect where there is missing punctuation as well as incorrect punctuation. Have the students write their own sentences and have their peers edit the punctuation.

Writing Activity: Have students complete a writing journal entry at the beginning or end of each day reflecting on the interactions they had and what is on their mind. These are free writes and intended to let students write their thoughts down. It is not intended for any proper grading just to allow students to have fun with writing.

Writing Activity: Have students create their own unique word and write a story about how their word is used and how they came up with this word.