Kinds of Writing
ABC stories and books
Accordion Books
Acrostics
Address poems
Admit slips
Advertisements
Advice columns
All-about books
Alphabet books
Almanacs
Announcements
Anthologies
Apologies
Applications
Arguments
Articles
Art responses
Autobiographies
Awards
Banners
Bibliographies
Billboards
Biographies
Book jackets
Booklets
Books
Book reviews
Brochures
Business letters
Calendars
Can/bag/box
stories
Captions
Cartoons
Catalogs
Cause and effect
statements
Certificates
Character dialogues
Charts/graphs/
diagrams
Character sketches
Checklists
Children's books
Cinquains
Class books
Class minutes
Classifications
Clusters
Collaborative reports
Collages
Color poems
Comic strips (great to
teach dialogue)
Commercials
Comparison essays
Comparisons
Complaints
Computer programs
Concrete poems
Contest entries
Contracts
Cornell notetaking
Cover letters
Critiques
Crossword puzzles
Cubes
Current events
Daily News
Data charts
Debates
Definitions
Demonstrations
Descriptions
Descriptive sentences
Dialogues
Diaries
Dictionaries
Dialogue journals
Dictionaries
Dioramas
Directions
Double-entry journals
Editorials
Emails
Epitaphs
Essays
Evaluations
Explanations
Eulogies
Eyewitness Accounts
Exit slips
Exploring assumptions
Fables
Fairy tales
Fantasies
First Thoughts
Five senses poems
Flip Charts
Flip Movies
Focused free writing
Focusing write
Folktales
Formula poems
Found poems
Free verse
Friendly letters
Forms
Ghost Stories
Graphic organizers
Greeting cards
Group stories
Guides
Haikus
Headlines
Historical Timelines
Historical Sketches
Horoscopes
Hypotheses
Individual books
Instant Versions
Interactive journals
Interviews
Instructions
Invitations
I-search papers
Jigsaws
Jingles
Jokes
Journals
Labels
Lab reports
Learning logs
Legends
Lesson Plans
Letters
Letters to authors
Letters to the Editor
License Plate Poems
Life lines
Limericks
Lists
Logs
Lyrics
Manuals
Maps
Memos
Menus
Maps
Mid-activity quick writes
Mobiles
Monologues
Monster Valentines
Morning Message
Multigenre projects
Murals
Musicals
Mysteries
Myths
News articles
Newscasts
Newspapers
Notebooks
Notes
Nutshelling
Obituaries
Observation
reports/sentences/
paragraphs
Oral histories
Paraphrase
Pattern books
Pen pal letters
Personal Narratives
Persuasive
essays/letters
Petitions
Pet Peeves
Playbills
Plays
Poems
Point of view stories
Pointed Questions
Pop-up books
Postcards
Posters
Powerpoint
presentations
Predictions
Prequels
Problem/solution
statements
Profiles
Puppet plays
Puzzles
Questionnaires
Questions
Quick writes
Quilts
Radio reports
Radio plays
Raps
Readers’ Theater
Reading journals/logs
Rebuttals
Recipes (great for
sequencing)
Reflections
Reports
Requests
Research reports
Resonse cards
Responses
Resumes
Retellings
Reviews (of books, etc.)
Riddles
Roleplaying
Rubber stamp story
starters
Rules/regulations
Sales presentations
Scenarios
Schedules
Science fiction
Scrapbooks
Scripts/plays
Sentences
Sequels
Signs
Simulated journals
Skits
Slogans
Song lyrics
Songs
Speeches
SQ3R
Stop and Write
Stories
Story boards
Story chains
Story cubes
Story pyramids
Story starters
Study guides
Summaries
Summary quick writes
Table of Contents
Tall tales
Tapestries
Technical Manuals
Telegrams
Telephone directories
Templates
Thank you’s
Thumbnail sketches
Time capsule entries
Timelines
Tongue twisters
Travel Brochures
Travelogues
Tributes
T-shirts
Unsent letters
Valentines
Venn diagrams
Videos
Wanted posters
Webpages
What if ______?
Wordless picture books
Word Walls
Word puzzles
Word searches
Word walls/lists
Yearbooks