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Weekly Creativity #295 | Flash Contest #65: Write a Story That Takes Place During a Sleepover

Post Published March 3, 2024 by Sage Millen

Write a story that takes place during a sleepover.
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Weekly Creativity #264: Write a Story about what School Will Be Like Next Year

Post Published July 31, 2023 by Sage Millen

Write a story about what school will be like next year.
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Weekly Creativity #200: Write a “Homework Assignment” for a Teacher or Other Adult You Know

Post Published April 18, 2022 by Molly Torinus

Write a “homework assignment” for a teacher or other adult you know.
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Weekly Creativity #184: Write about an Academic Fail

Post Published December 27, 2021 by Molly Torinus

Write about an academic fail, such as flunking a test, and a character’s recovery from it.
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Writing Activity: working with dialogue

Post Published October 4, 2018 by Stone Soup Editors

This activity is built around a story by 11-year-old Lena Boesser-Koschmann, first published in the November/December 1992 issue of Stone Soup, and more recently in the Stone Soup Book of Animal Stori...
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Writing Activity: novels in the form of letters, inspired by Jane Austen’s childhood writing

Post Published October 7, 2016 by William Rubel

Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the the greatest novelists to have written in English. Her novels are still widely read and have been adapted into movies and television series.
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Writing Activity: adopting a style through unusual language, with “Once Upon a Time” by Robin Eldred, 6

Post Published June 16, 2016 by Jane Levi

Introduction to This Stone Soup Writing Activity “Once Upon a Time” is an example of a story written in unusual English. This work is by a six-year-old and is a good example of how young children ...
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Time Is Short: a meditation on teaching art

Post Published April 30, 2016 by Amy Gibbs

Perhaps it's a vestige of the agricultural heritage here in the Grand Valley in western Colorado, but our school children are released for the summer in mid-May.
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As Long as We’re Happy, Part Two

Post Published October 2, 1986 by Stone Soup Editors

In Part One, Mrs. Davids happily starts her teaching job and marries a doctor. Three years later, she is no longer happy; her husband has left home one day and never come back.
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