From science to history to math, try these creative writing activities to help students process content and think deeply.

The entire exercise shouldn’t take more than ten to fifteen minutes, and should be done in the morning, before you start your day, when you’re fresh. However, the brevity of the exercise makes it ...

Putting pen to paper can put your body and mind on the ‘write’ track. Taking just 15 minutes to complete writing exercises about self compassion can increase women's body image, according to a new ...

Key points Writing about ourselves has physical and mental health benefits. Self-exploration through writing leads to values, goals, and motivation clarity. Writing exercises like the prompt ...

You can’t just tell the reader the emotion your character is experiencing, you have to show them. You do this by creating images using bricks of significant detail. God and the devil are in the detail ...

In Andrew Sean Greer's comic novel “Less," protagonist Arthur Less works a stint as an English teacher in Germany, where he assigns his students absurd writing exercises. Try your hand at these ...

Explore how expressive writing can empower students by helping them process emotions and foster personal growth, all through the transformative power of storytelling.

For students who participated in the writing exercises, the test-score gap between students in poverty and higher-income students was 17 percentage points, 7 percentage points less than the ...

When writing about trauma, licensed mental health counselor Jor-El Caraballo suggests writing in the third person to gain some perspective.

His struggles with writer’s block led him to create a process that favored an expressive, personal approach over rigid academic conventions that often stifled students. By Michael S. Rosenwald Peter ...