Fun Writing Activities: Creative Writing Prompts
Generate creative writing prompts by having students roll a die to randomly select a character, setting, and problem for a story.
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The Unusual Present: Write An Imaginative Story (And More) (9-13 years)
A creative-writing worksheet that walks students through writing an imaginative short story in three paragraphs, using a provided story starter and structured planning questions.
Finish the Story: Back to School Writing Prompts
A no-prep creative-writing packet of back to school-themed "finish the story" prompts to build narrative writing skills.
Creative Writing Prompts Grade 3 | The Special Birthday
Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on a special birthday, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Christmas Quick Write Choice Board
A Christmas-themed digital choice board of six creative-writing story starters, for use in PowerPoint or Google Classroom, with each slide linking to optional background writing music.
Flash Fiction: 24 Creative Writing Prompts for Students
A Google Slides/PowerPoint deck of 24 flash-fiction creative writing prompts to give students short, timed writing practice, explained with a slide on what flash fiction is and directions for use.
April Weekly Interactive Writing Prompts | Poetry Month Writing Prompt
An editable digital (Google Classroom-compatible) slide deck of weekly creative and reflective writing prompts, organized by week, for students to respond to directly on the slides.
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Creative Journal Prompts for Daily Writing Fun.
A set of daily journal-writing prompt worksheets covering general, seasonal, and imaginative topics to build writing fluency and self-reflection.
Halloween Quick Write Choice Board
A Halloween-themed digital choice board (PowerPoint/Google Classroom compatible) offering six spooky story-starter writing prompts for students to continue into a short story.
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Adventure Visual Writing Prompts | Photo Ideas | Writing Project
Provide open-ended visual/photo writing prompts (animal photos) to inspire creative descriptive or narrative student writing.
Creative Dialogue Writing Prompts Worksheets.
A set of dialogue-writing prompt worksheets that give students a scenario and ask them to write out a full dialogue between characters with proper punctuation and descriptive tags.
Finish the Story: Summer Themed Writing Prompts
No-prep creative-writing packet giving students a themed story-starter sentence to finish in their own words, with two page layouts per prompt (a blank version and one with illustration space).
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity - Dream Bedroom
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about students' views on their bedrooms and designing a dream bedroom, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
If Animals Could Talk on Earth Day - Writing Prompt
Give students an Earth Day-themed creative writing and drawing prompt from an animal's point of view about environmental treatment.
Narrative Writing Story Starters Beginnings Sizzling Starts
A set of 15 classroom posters, each modeling a different narrative writing technique for crafting an engaging story opening ('sizzling start'), such as action, dialogue, onomatopoeia, descriptive setting, and cliffhangers.
Easter Quick Write Choice Board
A digital Easter-themed quick-write choice board offering students several sentence-starter writing prompts to choose from, usable in PowerPoint or assigned via Google Classroom.
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Daily Journal Pages, Homeschool Worksheets, Writing Activity
Forever June Digital Design ARE YOU A TEACHER OR PARENT WHO WOULD LIKE TO IMPLEMENT A DAILY JOURNAL IN KIDS LIVES? Introducing a very cute set of Instant Download Journal Pages. My Daily Journal Worksheet Set includes simple to complete worksheets that allow children to journal about the weather, season, month, day, time, how they are…
Fall | Back to School Writing Prompt BUNDLE! 3rd-5th Grade
Writing practice across opinion, narrative, and informative/explanatory genres using fall/back-to-school prompts for 3rd-5th grade, organized by month.
Finish the Story: Fall Theme Writing Prompts
A no-prep creative-writing packet of fall-themed "finish the story" prompts to build narrative writing skills.
Journal Prompts for Daily Writing
A large collection of draw-and-write daily journal prompt pages for a writing station, each giving students a short topic to illustrate and write about.
Informative Essay Unit
Provide a complete, ready-to-print middle-school unit teaching informative essay writing, built around 'Pixanotes' (a fill-in-the-blank Cornell-notes-style format) and a nonfiction writing prompt/text set.
Fiction vs Nonfiction – Genre Sorting Packet
A genre-comparison packet teaching the distinguishing features of fiction versus nonfiction texts (e.g. real vs. not real, characters/setting vs. glossary/index, illustrations vs. photos/captions), paired with a sorting activity and writing prompts.
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Storyteller's Wordshop - True Life Stories & Me and My World
A two-part personal-narrative writing journal (combining 'True Life Stories' and 'Me and My World') that prompts students to write and illustrate short personal stories using story starters, brainstorming questions, and vocabulary space.
Personal Narrative Writing, Graphic Organizer, Rubric & Examples
Guide students through a personal narrative using graphic organizers and examples, then assess the finished writing with the included rubric.