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Jump Write In! : Creative Writing Exercises for Diverse Classrooms, Grades 6-12

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This book has taken a place with my best "teaching poetry" resources. Full of activities, sample poems, and powerful lessons, I come back again and again for writing activities that will engage ALL of my writers. Kudos to Writer's Corps - both for this book and the amazing things they have accomplished with young adults!

I am always looking for new ideas to use with my Creative Writing students, and this turned out to be a wonderful source of new ideas. Interesting, provocative, and critical activities can be adopted and adapted to many grade levels and abilities. I found this a first rate resource for my classroom.

I use this book in my classroom again and again with unparalled success. The book includes innovative writing prompts that inspire any student to write. The book emphasizes poetry writing with short prompts that are particulary useful in classrooms where attendance is a problem. I highly recommend this title for English teachers, especially when working with at-risk student populations.

Bought this book with many others this summer for a creative writing elective I was teaching. The exercises from this book were the biggest hits amongst my students. They especialy loved the collaborative writing exercises based on a mix of surrealism and hip hop.

If you have tough to teach kids, this is even better. I teach at an alternative school for at-risk teens, and if it works with my kids, it'll work with nearly any kid. The exercises were designed with at-risk teens in mind and incorporates realities and interests from their lives.

My only caveat for this book is that some of the writing examples may or may not be appropriate for your own students. They reflect the harsh realties and liberation of their original young writers.

Examples aside, the exercises are worth every penny!They really inspired my students.

Although the ideas presented are good, there is a definite bias to this book. It is presented in a way that suggests that black and Hispanic kids are the only ones who need this program, and that all black and Hispanic kids live in slums. Most of the writing examples are about inner city violence, drugs, and despair. The bias begs several questions: what about black and Hispanic kids who live normal lives in suburbia? What about white kids who live in slums? What about kids of all genetics living in all sorts of conditions? If you are working with the narrow demographic represented in this book, this book is for you. It would be more intellectually honest for the authors of this book to make this point very clear in the title or description of this book.

Great tool for teachers! The lessons and ideas are highly motivating to the kids. They love to write with the lessons in this book. This is my first time teaching creative writing to sixth grade. This book makes it miles easier on me.