Language Arts

For many students, creating art is enjoyable. You can utilize students’ enjoyment of art to help them get more from a novel than they can by simply reading it. Here are some art activities that can be used to enhance students’ appreciation of a novel. Each of these activities requires that students think carefully about the concepts presented in a novel to be able to create artwork that accurately reflects the text.

Misplaced Prepositional Phrases
Forms of Writing
Descriptive Writing
Politically Correct Gender Language
Creative Words
Word Origins
Confusing Word Pairs
Spelling Irregular Words
Expressions from Work
Fun Words for Objects
Responding to Students’ Writing
Reading Formats
Shakespeare’s Relevance
Homonyms
Poetry in the Classroom
Personal Narrative