Literary Valentines: Fun Valentine's Day ELA Activity, Creative Writing Task, AP

Send your students some love this Valentine's Day with literary valentines! These silly, punny valentines will put a smile on your face and roll in their eyes. Additionally, students will love the Valentine's Day activity so much they won't even realize they are practicing figurative language and creative writing!

❤️What's Inside: ❤️

1. A Collection of 50+ Literary Valentines:
Classic and YA literature meets the valentine spirit with these bookish valentines. Full of puns and personality, you'll spread the love of reading with a variety of authors like:

• Edgar Allan Poe
• Henry David Thoreau
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Emily Dickinson
• Ray Bradbury
• Mark Twain
• Robert Frost
• Walt Whitman
• Langston Hughes
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Maya Angelou
• John Steinbeck
• William Shakespeare
• Oscar Wilde
• William Golding
• George Orwell
• Jane Austen
• Frederick Douglass
• Mary Shelley
• Phillis Wheatley
• Amy Tan
• Kwame Alexander
• Jason Reynolds
• S. E. Hinton
• Suzanne Collins
• Lois Ann Lowry
• Neal Shusterman
• R.L. Stine
• Angie Thomas
• Sandra Cisneros
• Joy Harjo
  

2. Bonus Activity: Create Your Own Literary Valentines!
Turn your ELA classroom into a creative writing workshop with the bonus activity. Students are prompted to design their very own valentines inspired by a book. Perfect for an independent reading celebration or a whole class novel wrap up, students will use literary devices to craft a creative valentines.

Why English Teachers Love These Literary Valentines:

Showcases puns so bad they are good:
Who doesn't love a cheesy pun? Your students won't be able to help but smile and roll their eyes at these punny valentines!

Creates a Valentine's Day display:

Print these as posters rather than cards and suddenly you have a Valentine's Day bulletin board or festive door decoration. There are enough in the pack to use these literary prints as posters AND cards without repeating.

Celebrates reading:
Books are love and these cards are designed to celebrate the love of reading with a variety of authors that your students will recognize!

Provides an inexpensive gift:
Whether you want to pair these cards with a heart sucker or simply hand them out, these literary valentines make a meaningful yet inexpensive student or English teacher team gift.

Includes a creative writing activity:
With the built-in examples and bonus activity, your students can join in on the fun by creating their own literary valentines!

☝Please note that the activity is editable to fit your needs in PPT or Google slides, but the cards themselves are ONLY editable in Canva.