https://padlet.com/dadwatt/fuov3ziu65ruf1aw Brainstorm ideas for "quick writes" in the junior classroom. en-us 2022-02-10 14:54:50 UTC 2025-12-11 13:01:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/dadwatt/fuov3ziu65ruf1aw/wish/2040771160 - Types of animals you might see at a farm
- What you did on the weekend
- Instructions for your favourite meal
- How to plan the best party 
- Tell me about a time when you felt really happy
-Tell me about a time when you felt really frustrated (SEL?)
- How do you take care of your pet?
- Tell me about your favourite animal (and why). What do you know about this animal?
- What do you enjoy doing outside of school? Why?
- What is a sport you love to play? How would you teach someone who has never played it before?
- What advice would you give to yourself 1 year ago?
- What do you want to be when you grow up?
- What is your favourite season? Why?
- If you could plan you ideal day, what would it involve? Who would you spend it with?
- What is something you want me to know today?
- Tell me about your favourite day/experience 
- Convince someone to visit [town] 
- Vouch for your favourite sport/restaurant/etc. 
-If toys were sentient, what do you think they would do all day/talk about/etc. 
- What would you do to bide time on a spacecraft destined for Mars?
- Plan an activity that helps others learn about how to take care of the environment.  
- What kind of day would you plan if you were the teacher? What subjects would you teach/what would we do? [educator can learn more about interests of their students]
- Write a letter to someone who lives in [x]. What do you want to tell them about our town/country/climate?
- How would your life be different if it were the year 1900
- How would you prepare the school/your home for the arrival of the Queen? 
-What would you do if you could be a [animal] for a day?

]]> 2022-02-10 17:22:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/fuov3ziu65ruf1aw/wish/2040771160 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/fuov3ziu65ruf1aw/wish/2040777075 -Journaling about a topic that interests them
-Composing a song or a poem
-Lists
-Letters
-Reflections
-Script for a skit or podcast
-Short stories
-Labelling pictures or diagrams
- Sticky note check in 
-Mind map/brainstorming
-Games e.g., word unscramble, Mad Libs

]]> 2022-02-10 17:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/fuov3ziu65ruf1aw/wish/2040777075 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/fuov3ziu65ruf1aw/wish/2040782206 - Using your senses to describe your environment (write about something you see, practice using adjectives)
- Favourites (food, sports, celebrities, animals, movies, books, place)
- Tell me about ... (your day, your weekend, your family, some hobbies, a trip you took, etc.)
- Turn Scategories into a writing activity
- Make a list using alliterations 
- "this or that" or "would you rather"
- Describe something without using the object's name (teacher would guess the object)
- Before a test, write a reflection on how they feel about the material or writing the test
- Create a new invention and describe it
- Imagine you are ... (the teacher for the day, a professional athlete, a celebrity, an animal, etc.)
- "Sales pitch" for a product (can be something new or something that exists already)
- Future & past
- Rhymes, haikus, limericks, other poems
- Write as many song lyrics as you can think of
- Write a letter to someone you admire/a role model (or describe the person and why you admire them)
- Change the ending of a movie or a book
- Imagine the ending of a book the class is reading
- Write a letter to yourself in 5/10 years
- Make a drawing using words as your lines (can practice cursive writing)
- If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?
- Write a script for a play you would like to perform
- Comic strip]]> 2022-02-10 17:27:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/fuov3ziu65ruf1aw/wish/2040782206 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/fuov3ziu65ruf1aw/wish/2040800936 1) Letters to famous people
2) To Do List and/or Wish List
3)Skits/Dialogues 
4)Diary 
5)Speed Writing
6)List of things you would need in your favorite trip
7) Write about your favorite hobby
8) Talk about your future (how do you see your future 20 years from now)
9) Make a story
10) Things you would like to do with your friends
11) Poems 
12)Writing lyrics for a song
13) Write how you feel about school
14) Write about something that makes you happy
15) Thank you letter
16) Make a meme
17)Write about the country you wish to visit
18) Describe your dream house
19) Types of writing: Bullet points, Venn diagram, free style
20) Writing a comic



]]> 2022-02-10 17:36:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/fuov3ziu65ruf1aw/wish/2040800936 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/fuov3ziu65ruf1aw/wish/2040803087 1. Journal writing
2. Nouvelle du jour (One or two properly witten sentences)
3. Would you rather questions
4. Theme for every day: Manic Monday, word Wednesdays, Funky Friday.
5. Teaching how to annotate (in the margins)
6. Character creating
7. Writing a letter to a friend or family member
8. Write you own play/skit
9. Writing letters to futur self
10. Writing about favorite sports or activities
11. Poems
12. Rap battles
13. Debates
14. Rhyming 
15.Short stories


]]> 2022-02-10 17:37:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/fuov3ziu65ruf1aw/wish/2040803087 lillian77 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/fuov3ziu65ruf1aw/wish/2040804202 Writing journals
Question box
Exit cards
Letter book to teacher
Pen pals
Mentor buddy (older grades work with younger grades)]]> 2022-02-10 17:37:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/fuov3ziu65ruf1aw/wish/2040804202 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/fuov3ziu65ruf1aw/wish/2040813305 - Writing about something important to them (an object, description of bedroom, etc.)
- Holiday focussed writing (Letters to Santa, Valentines day cards, etc.)
- Speaker Clubs (writing speeches or reports)
- Pen Pals
- Journal entries
- "Word Wednesday" (different word each week and students write a piece including the word)
- Mindmaps/Brainstorms
- Doodle stories (option of collaborative drawing and writing)]]> 2022-02-10 17:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/fuov3ziu65ruf1aw/wish/2040813305