Superhero Sidekick Tryouts Writing Activity | Character traits, story
A creative-writing activity where students invent a superhero-sidekick story using a choice board (character, setting, problem, solution), then write and self-edit a short story.
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A creative-writing activity where students invent a superhero-sidekick story using a choice board (character, setting, problem, solution), then write and self-edit a short story.
A creative-writing activity where students invent a superhero time-travel rescue story using a choice board (character, setting, problem, solution), then write and self-edit a short story.
A post-viewing ESL activity worksheet for the Netflix series 'Heartstopper: Season 2', giving students a structured template to record show details, new vocabulary, character notes, and a creative writing response.
A post-viewing ESL activity worksheet for the Netflix series 'Heartstopper: Season 3', giving students a structured template to record show details, new vocabulary, character notes, and a creative writing response.
A 114-page reproducible creative-writing book presenting an informal, personal-experience-based approach to teaching writing, with a large collection of open-ended writing topic activities.
A post-viewing ESL activity worksheet for the Netflix series '3 Body Problem', giving students a structured template to record show details, new vocabulary, character notes, and a creative writing response.
A post-viewing ESL activity worksheet for the Netflix series 'Anne with an E - Season 3', giving students a structured template to record show details, new vocabulary, character notes, and a creative writing response.
A no-prep, autumn-themed directed-drawing and creative-writing activity set featuring a harvest basket of plants.
A post-viewing ESL activity worksheet for the Netflix series 'Anne with an E - Season 2', giving students a structured template to record show details, new vocabulary, character notes, and a creative writing response.
A post-viewing ESL activity worksheet for the Netflix series 'Agatha Christie's Seven Dials', giving students a structured template to record show details, new vocabulary, character notes, and a creative writing response.
A creative-writing activity where students imagine listing a Roman house for sale, applying knowledge of ancient Roman homes to a real-estate-listing format.
A no-prep, 5-day Grade 7 end-of-school-year ELA packet (teacher guide, student worksheets, and answer key as separate files) combining literacy skill review with reflective/celebratory last-week-of-school activities.
A slide deck teaching the concept of puns/wordplay through examples (joke puns, food puns, punnies/comics) and a creative-writing assignment applying puns.
A student/peer self-editing reference checklist for creative writing stories, used to check structural and mechanical elements before submission.
A grade-3 creative writing resource offering 8 whimsical 'crazy school day' writing prompts (each with an image cue, sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank), plus an easy version, a challenge version, teacher usage notes, and worked example stories.
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 6-8 students through journal writing, poetry forms, characterization, and narrative/problem-solving writing.
A Rainbow Horizons novel study for 'Little House on the Prairie' by Laura Ingalls Wilder, integrating reading comprehension, vocabulary/language, spelling, grammar, and creative writing across chapter-grouped assignments.
A no-prep, 5-day Grade 8 end-of-school-year ELA packet (teacher guide, student worksheets, and answer key as separate files) combining literacy skill review with reflective/celebratory last-week-of-school activities.
A step-by-step guide teaching students to brainstorm, organize, and write across multiple genres (friendly and business letters, book reports, formal reports, essays, poetry, short stories), covering the writing process from idea generation through proofreading and sentence-level style.
Novel study guide for 'The Whipping Boy' by Sid Fleischman; vocabulary work is based on Bloom's Taxonomy.
A no-prep, 5-day Grade 2 end-of-school-year ELA packet (teacher guide, student worksheets, and answer key as separate files) combining literacy skill review with reflective/celebratory last-week-of-school activities.
A no-prep, 5-day Grade 1 end-of-school-year ELA packet (teacher guide, student worksheets, and answer key as separate files) combining literacy skill review with reflective/celebratory last-week-of-school activities.
Provide a comprehensive grades 4-7 novel study for Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', with chapter-by-chapter comprehension questions, vocabulary, and creative writing activities.
A no-prep, 5-day Grade 3 end-of-school-year ELA packet (teacher guide, student worksheets, and answer key as separate files) combining literacy skill review with reflective/celebratory last-week-of-school activities.