Characters, dialogue & viewpoint
Cinderella Writing Diary
A Cinderella-themed creative writing activity with diary-entry prompts from multiple story characters' perspectives.
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Geyser Activity
A short acrostic-poem writing activity connecting creative writing practice to facts about geysers as a natural disaster/earth science topic.
Story starters & adventures
Creative Story Opening Activity
A one-page creative writing prompt sheet giving students several imaginative scenario starters to practice writing story openings.
Poetry & wordplay
End of the School Year Limerick Activity
A creative writing activity where students write a limerick about the end of the school year and summer vacation.
Reading & film extensions
ESL TV Series Activity Worksheets - The Queen's Gambit - Chess
A post-viewing ESL/EFL activity worksheet for the TV series "The Queen's Gambit": students record basic facts about the show, capture new vocabulary they learned, reflect on a favourite episode, and complete a creative writing task.
Reading & film extensions
ESL TV Series Activity Worksheets - The Mandalorian - Season 3
A post-viewing ESL/EFL activity worksheet for the TV series "The Mandalorian - Season 3": students record basic facts about the show, capture new vocabulary they learned, reflect on a favourite episode, and complete a creative writing task.
Reading & film extensions
ESL TV Series Activity Worksheets - The Mandalorian - Season 1
A post-viewing ESL/EFL activity worksheet for the TV series "The Mandalorian - Season 1": students record basic facts about the show, capture new vocabulary they learned, reflect on a favourite episode, and complete a creative writing task.
Story starters & adventures
My Alien ID Activity
A creative-writing and drawing activity that has students imagine and describe an alien and its home planet, encouraging imaginative engagement with space themes.
Reading & film extensions
ESL TV Series Activity Worksheets - The Mandalorian - Season 2
A post-viewing ESL/EFL activity worksheet for the TV series "The Mandalorian - Season 2": students record basic facts about the show, capture new vocabulary they learned, reflect on a favourite episode, and complete a creative writing task.
Reading & film extensions
ESL TV Series Activity Worksheets - Young Sherlock
A post-viewing ESL/EFL activity worksheet for the TV series "Young Sherlock": students record basic facts about the show, capture new vocabulary they learned, reflect on a favourite episode, and complete a creative writing task.
Reading & film extensions
ESL TV Series Activity Worksheets - Stranger Things - Season 4
A post-viewing ESL/EFL activity worksheet for the TV series "Stranger Things - Season 4": students record basic facts about the show, capture new vocabulary they learned, reflect on a favourite episode, and complete a creative writing task.
Reading & film extensions
American Tall Tales | The Legendary Annie Oakley
A tall-tale literacy unit teaching students about the genre of tall tales and the legend of Annie Oakley, combining a read-aloud illustrated story, informational facts about the real historical figure, comprehension questions, and creative writing practice.
Reading & film extensions
ESL TV Series Activity Worksheets - Stranger Things - Season 2
A post-viewing ESL/EFL activity worksheet for the TV series "Stranger Things - Season 2": students record basic facts about the show, capture new vocabulary they learned, reflect on a favourite episode, and complete a creative writing task.
Characters, dialogue & viewpoint
Three Little Pigs | Official Police Statement | If I Were... Writing
A creative writing activity where students compare the pig's and wolf's versions of the Three Little Pigs story and write an official police statement from the point of view they believe.
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Writing craft & revision
Waking up the Joys of Writing - Activity Book
A creative-writing activity book that gives students ten 'flat' (bare, low-detail) sentences and has them rewrite each one repeatedly over a five-day cycle, adding detail and changing tone/mood, to build comfort and fluency with descriptive writing.
Drawing & imaginative design
‘Pom Pom Goes On Holiday’ A Fun Writing And Drawing Activity (6 years +)
A vocabulary and creative-writing activity about going on holiday (vacation) with a dog, covering transportation vocabulary, packing, and diary writing, modeled on a sample diary entry from the 'naughty dog' character.
Poetry & wordplay
Phoenix Activity
A short creative-writing activity connected to mythology, using the phoenix as a prompt for descriptive and poetic writing.
Characters, dialogue & viewpoint
Hangouts Template (Editable on Google Slides)
Give students an editable, familiar phone-messaging-app template to write out conversations for a creative writing or comprehension activity.
Reading & film extensions
ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on "Mary Poppins Returns" - 2018 Sequel
ESL post-viewing movie guide worksheet for "Mary Poppins Returns", giving students structured prompts to record basic film information and practice creative writing from a character's perspective.
Story starters & adventures
Giant’s Causeway Activity
A short creative-writing prompt activity centered on the Giant's Causeway (a geological rock formation), asking students to imagine finding 'the Giant's boot' at the site and invent a backstory.
Reading & film extensions
ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on "Despicable Me 2"
ESL post-viewing movie guide worksheet for "Despicable Me 2", giving students structured prompts to record basic film information and practice creative writing from a character's perspective.
Story starters & adventures
Story Generator: 10,000,000 Combinations (Google Sheets)
A digital 'roll a story' creative writing tool built in Google Sheets that randomly generates a character, plot, and setting combination (10 million possible combinations) to prompt student story writing.
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Characters, dialogue & viewpoint
Writing Creative Vocabulary Activity
A single-page creative writing activity where students design and describe a dress and an associated character using creative vocabulary.
Reading & film extensions
ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"
ESL post-viewing movie guide worksheet for "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", giving students structured prompts to record basic film information and practice creative writing from a character's perspective.