Creativity – Expert Writing

ELA 4-8: Creativity- Expert Writing

I have been doing expert writing with the older students for a few years now as an independent English Language Arts project while I am working with the younger students.  However, I have been disappointed with the variety and creativity in presentations.  I give them a list of possible formats and they choose the topic they are interested in researching and how they want to present what they have learned.  Only 1 or 2 have been brave enough to deviate from the traditional written report, or poster. My plan was to do a variety of creativity projects from the Destination Imagination series to foster creativity and get them in the right frame of mind before doing their projects.  I insisted that they had to choose a format other than a written report, or poster