How to Write Bulletin Board Ideas
For teachers, a classroom is more than just a place to conduct a class. The classroom itself can become a tool for learning through the use of creative visual aids. One thing you can do to enhance the learning in your classroom is to create bulletin boards. If you want to make bulletin boards about writing, all you need are a few simple ideas.
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Make a Writing Bulletin Board
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Use published examples. If you want to make a bulletin board about writing, show your students what good writing looks like by displaying published writing samples on your bulletin board. If you want to make a bulletin board about persuasive writing, for example, then you might choose advertisements as your examples. If you want to make a bulletin board about creative writing, you can put samples from novels and short stories. If you want to make a bulletin board about expository writing, you might put up examples from essays or speeches by famous people. Using examples gives your students something to model their writing after and provides the inspiration they need to create quality writing of their own.
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Show the steps. Writing is a process, but often students just want to skip to the end of that process and complete their writing in one quick draft. Show your students the writing process by displaying that process on the bulletin board. Give examples of what those steps should look like, including a brainstorming session, outline, rough draft, peer review sheet, and final draft. This will display the evolution of the writing process for your students so they can better understand each step along the way, and you can modify the bulletin board to fit the needs of the specific writing you're doing in your classroom.
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Use story starters. For a creative writing bulletin board, you could post a variety of story starters. Change these story starters every week or so in order to provide continuous inspiration for your students. These story starters can be sentences to begin a new story or questions to provoke thoughts. You can go online to find journal-writing prompts and story starters for every age group, enough to last you for quite a while in your classroom. This way, when a student starts to feel writer's block coming on, they can look to your creative writing bulletin board for inspiration.
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Inspire with quotations. Take quotations from famous people and display them on your board; many of the world's greatest authors have written about their craft and you can use quotes from this to help your students in their own writing. If a student gets stuck, he can look for advice from some of his favorite authors to help him get through his writing. Try finding quotes from current authors as well as past literary greats; you can find these on quote-search web sites or on the web sites associated with individual authors.
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