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Vocabulary Story Writing Activity
Single-slide-deck activity directing students to write an original story that incorporates new vocabulary words.
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What Do You Do With A Problem? | Book Companion Activities | Digital Book Study
A digital, interactive 'book companion' micro-learning slide deck for the picture book 'What Do You Do With A Problem?' by Kobi Yamada, structuring a read-aloud plus comprehension, sequencing, story-elements, and summarizing practice.
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What Do You Do With An Idea? | Book Companion Activities | Digital Book Study
A digital, interactive 'book companion' micro-learning slide deck for the picture book 'What Do You Do With An Idea?' by Kobi Yamada, structuring a read-aloud plus comprehension, sequencing, story-elements, and summarizing practice.
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What's in My School Bag? | Back to School Writing Prompts & Craft Acti
A back-to-school writing and craft activity where students write about the contents of their school bag and then color and assemble a backpack craft template.
Characters, dialogue & viewpoint
When Monkey King Meets... Activity
A paired creative-writing and performance project where students write and act out a skit in which the folklore character Sun Wu Kong (Monkey King) helps a pop-culture celebrity solve a problem, incorporating new vocabulary with Pinyin.
Why the Sky is Far Away: A Nigerian Folktale Read-Aloud Activities
Companion pages move from predictions and folktale elements to retelling, character studies of Adese and the Sky, inference and theme. Students can complete a vocabulary crossword and an All About Nigeria research page. A final writing project offers planning sheets, plot organizers and lined layouts for an original folktale or origin story. Use alongside the picture book.
Story starters & adventuresCharacters, dialogue & viewpoint
Write About My Street (7-11 years)
Write About My Street (7-11 years) Educator Resource This valuable teaching resource is perfect for enhancing your students' creative writing skills.
Poetry & wordplay
Write, Revise, & Present Rhyming Poems with Vivid Verbs & Imagery- 6-8
A 4-5 day middle-school poetry mini-unit teaching students to analyze, write, revise, and present a rhyming poem using vivid verbs and imagery, modeled on Eve Merriam's 'Catch a Little Rhyme.'
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Writing a Limerick
Writing a Limerick: A Dynamic Teaching Resource Writing a Limerick is an engaging teaching resource that presents an educational yet entertaining activity specially suited for St. Patrick's Day festivities. It is designed mainly for learners in grades 4-6, merging creativity with literacy as it teaches students how to write their…
Poetry & wordplay
Writing Haikus Interactive Foldable Booklets – EBOOK
Your students will create three interactive foldable booklets where they can document what they are learning about writing haikus. These 3 foldables cover: •Basic Facts about haikus •Haiku Planner •Haiku illustration This product is…
Story starters & adventures
Writing Perfectly, Perfect Narratives | Comprehensive Writing Packet
Writing Perfectly, Perfect Narratives | Comprehensive Writing Packet An innovative teaching resource that forms an indispensable part of any educator’s portfolio.
Story starters & adventuresCharacters, dialogue & viewpoint
Zoo Animals Endless Creative Writing Prompts
Provides a low-prep, reusable creative-writing framework using the 'Somebody Wants But So Then' (SWBST) story structure, themed around zoo animal character cards.
Story starters & adventuresDrawing & imaginative design
🎄 Gingerbread House Design & Creative Writing Activity 🎄
Combine a creative design activity with narrative writing practice: students design their own gingerbread house, then write a short story using that house as the setting, incorporating randomly assigned required story elements.