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Help students create original stories, poems, dialogue and imaginative descriptions. Browse story starters, character-building activities, drawing prompts and writing mini-lessons, with reading and film extensions for further inspiration.
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A creative-writing activity where students roll a die three times to select a character, setting, and problem, then plan and write their own story, optionally inspired by an included short story ('Three Free Wishes').
Give students a MASH-style (fold-and-predict/spiral counting) creative writing game to randomly generate character traits and story elements for use in creative writing.
A creative-writing activity packet teaching high school students to create black-out poems (from printed text, blacking out unused words) and found poems (cutting and arranging words from print sources), intended as a flexible filler or multi-day creative writing lesson.
A step-by-step creative-writing project guide leading students through planning, mapping, drafting, peer-editing and finalizing an original mystery narrative, with a rubric aligned to narrative-writing standards.
A mini-lesson/workshop teaching secondary students how to write and punctuate dialogue effectively in narrative writing, using a slideshow, a topic-strip speaking activity, and a punctuation practice worksheet with answer key.
Google Slideshow of 24 creative writing prompts to inspire student writing across genres and moods, with an elements-of-fiction mini-lesson.
A large collection (101 numbered activities) of creative-writing prompts and exercises covering varied writing forms (sentence completion, poems, unconventional writing tasks, etc.) for upper-elementary/middle-school students.
A mini-lesson/workshop teaching secondary students the 'show, don't tell' writing principle, using a slideshow contrasting telling sentences with showing paragraphs, then having students turn a randomly-drawn telling sentence into a descriptive showing paragraph.
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.
A creative-writing lesson pairing Rorschach-inkblot-style paintings with poetry writing, teaching poetic devices (rhyme, alliteration, simile, metaphor, personification, etc.) through a hands-on art-and-writing activity.
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A dice-roll creative-writing game ('Roll With It!') that prompts young students to invent a story by rolling a die to pick characters, setting, and a sequence of plot events, plus matching writing paper.
A creative-writing teaching resource that first reviews fiction-writing techniques (audience, genre, structure, dialogue, sentence variety) and then guides students through planning and writing an original story using a given character/setting/plot outline about a boy named Frank at a computer-game sale.
A creative-writing/language project in which students imagine themselves as a YouTuber, choose a video concept, and write and film a script in a target (non-English) language.
Give middle/high school students short, targeted creative writing exercises that isolate and practice five literary devices (Details, Diction, Imagery, Point of View, and Tone) one at a time, building creative writing skills incrementally.
A multi-activity creative-writing booklet that opens with a craft instruction for making a decorated pencil (duct-tape flower pen), then leads students through writing haiku poems and an outlined short story.
A comprehensive multi-part mythology unit teaching students about Greek, Roman, Norse, and Native American mythology through structured lessons, a contract-based major group project, optional enrichment lessons, and a supplementary collection of myth texts.
Combine directed step-by-step drawing practice with creative writing prompts for 12 arctic animals, to build drawing/illustration skills alongside descriptive or narrative writing.
A vocabulary and creative-writing activity set at a neighborhood street party, including invitation writing, a word search, and a social-emotional narrative about welcoming an excluded dog.
Combine directed step-by-step drawing practice with creative writing prompts for 12 birds, to build drawing/illustration skills alongside descriptive or narrative writing.
A movie-study lesson plan/worksheet packet for the film Flora & Ulysses (2021), with 30 activities building reading comprehension, vocabulary, character analysis, theme analysis, data/graph interpretation, and creative writing skills.
A Google Slides template styled after the Houseparty video-chat app, letting students design and fill in a mock video-chat conversation for a creative-writing or role-play activity.
A directed-drawing and creative-writing/coloring activity themed around a bird sitting in a boot, for elementary art or fine-motor/creative-thinking practice.
A set of 32 daily writing prompt cards to give students a ready supply of creative-writing topics, for use as a writing station, journal starter, or early-finisher activity.