ePals Email Extras

Creative Writing Prompts and Quick Classroom Activities

Get Free ePals Email Extras Delivered to your Inbox!

Motivate your students with ePals Email Extras, creative writing prompts and short classroom activities, sent directly to your inbox from ePals and our partners, the Smithsonian Institution and SnagLearning. Designed with Common Core Standards in mind, ePals Email Extras integrate media, engaging content and relevant topics with quick, creative writing activities that your students can share with classmates, ePals and families.

You can use Email Extras
for:

► Morning Warm Ups
► Journal Writing Topics
► Pen Pal Topics
► Extra Credit Assignments
► “When You’re Done” Activities
► Substitute Teacher Days

Signing up is easy!

Just enter your email address, name, and select the Email Extras you'd like to receive from ePals and our partners, the Smithsonian Institution and SnagLearning . We can send Email Extras directly to your students’ inbox, too! Just indicate below if you’d like that option.

1. Provide your contact information:

First Name Required Question

Last Name

ePals Email Address Required Question

Personal Email Address (if different than above)

2. Select ePals-Smithsonian Extras (weekly):
Required Question

3. Select ePals Extras (monthly):
Required Question

	Featured Photos, ePals member-submitted photos create a visual cue for interactive writing prompts. See an example.
	Member Projects Ideas for your Classroom, Collaborative project ideas contributed by ePals teachers. See an example.
	The Way We Write, Quick writing activities based on aspects of students' daily lives. See an example.

4. Select ePals-SnagLearning Extras (monthly):
Required Question

eFilms, Emails with a video link, from our partner, SnagLearning, encourages students to take a deeper look at the suggested video. See an example.

Send the Email Extras directly to your students or to your inbox?

If you are an ePals member and register for ePals Email Extras with your ePals username, your students can automatically receive the Extras that you select. (This does not include the Member Project Ideas email. This is only available to teachers.)

	YES, send ePals Email Extras to my students.
	NO, send ePals Email Extras JUST to my teacher account.

5. What is your ePals username?

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