February 16, 2024 • Kentucky Poet Laureate Silas House visits with bestselling writer David Arnold to talk about creating vivid characterizations in the premiere episode of “Writing Lessons”, a ...

Editor’s note: A version of this article originally appeared on The Character Tree’s blog. When we were just a couple weeks into distance learning, I started to really miss writing workshop time. Over ...

Save time and enrich your English curriculum with this valuable pack of five fully-prepared creative writing lessons. Each lesson in this pack is distinct, featuring unique writing prompts and ...

What are three things that matter most to you and to people significantly older than you? How do your responses compare? Students will read and respond to the YES! article “Three Things That Matter ...

Looking for writing lessons that will engage your students? Student Writing Lessons from YES! Magazine may be just what you are looking for. The lessons are based on thought-provoking YES! articles ...

With a few exceptions, our schools are bad at teaching writing. Students are not asked to do much of it, mostly because reading and correcting their work takes so much time. Instruction methods are ...

Mark: “There’s a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.” Erica: “Yes, there is.” What Mark is obsessed with, according to his girlfriend, is getting into one of Harvard’s elite social ...

A long lesson that can be split into two or three lessons. It covers how to strucutre responses to the creative writing task, based on the AQA mark scheme. Students are also given access to George ...