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Then and Now History Drawing Project and Writing Activity
A no-prep art-history drawing and writing activity where students reimagine three famous artists/artworks in a modern context.
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Writing Interactive Notebooks: Writing Activities | Interactive Writing lessons
Provide an interactive notebook of lessons, foldables, and activities covering Common Core writing standards (Opinion, Narrative, Informative) for grades 3-6.
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Writing Banner Templates
Provides pennant/banner templates students fill in to summarize what they learned about a lesson or unit, or for beginning-of-year decoration.
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Creative Writing Project: Rewrite a Fairy Tale
A creative-writing project that has students rewrite a well-known fairy tale, fable, or myth from the villain's first-person point of view, supported by an assignment sheet, rubric, and a peer-editing process.
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My Bug Jar Writing & Art Activity
A hands-on art and fine-motor writing activity where students build a paper 'bug jar' by coloring, tracing, cutting, and gluing insect cutouts to practice name-writing, fine motor skills, and insect identification.
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Four Square: Writing in the Content Areas for Grades 5-9:
A companion to the Four Square Writing Method focused on writing across the curriculum for middle/upper grades: structured lesson plans to help students organize and develop content-area writing.
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Labeling Food Packages Writing Activity
An early-writing project where students design and label their own food product packaging, practicing persuasive/descriptive writing, adjectives, and creative design in a real-world writing context.
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Tiger Flipbook craft Animal Science Study writing prompt activities
Make learning about tigers fun and interactive with this printable flipbook craft! Students will explore the fascinating world of tigers by learning about their habitat, diet, body features, life cycle, adaptations, and interesting facts while strengthening reading comprehension and writing skills through engaging science activities. I…
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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.
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Pig DIY Flipbook Craft Farm Animal Science Study Writing Prompt
Make learning about pigs fun and interactive with this printable DIY flipbook craft! Students will explore the fascinating world of pigs by learning about their habitat, diet, body features, life cycle, adaptations, and interesting facts while strengthening reading comprehension and writing skills through engaging science activities. I…
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Koala Flipbook Craft Australian Animal Science Study Writing Prompt
A DIY flipbook craft/writing activity where students research and record facts about koalas (appearance, habitat, and related topics) in a question-and-answer flipbook format.
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Narrative Writing Graphic Organizer
An interactive slide-based graphic organizer guiding students through the narrative writing/story planning process, framed partly around designing a game/story.
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CREATIVE WRITING ACTIVITY, LANGUAGE ARTS WORKSHEETS, VOCABULARY GAME
Forever June Digital Design ARE YOU LOOKING FOR FRESH, NEW LANGUAGE ARTS IDEAS FOR YOUR CLASSROOM? If you looking for something unique for your class, you have come to the right place! My Tell Me So...Creative Writing Activity is a fun resource for your teacher toolbox! This Instant Download Listing contains 20 high resolution jpeg…
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Persuasive Writing about King Tut Project
A multi-day project-based learning unit in which student groups research whether King Tut was murdered, then conduct a web quest and mock trial, culminating in persuasive writing, to teach ancient history alongside persuasive writing and collaboration skills.
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9-11 WORKSHEET, PATRIOT'S DAY ACTIVITY & COLORING PAGE, WRITING PROMPT
Forever June Digital Design Presenting my 9-11 Gnome themed Activity Page, which features the words 9-11. This printable also contains a cute colourable gnome that students will enjoy colouring for Patriot's Day, as well as a word scramble, twin towers drawing prompt, tic tac toe game and 9-11 writing prompts. This DIY Kids Coloring &…
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Arctic Animals Writing Project
A 10+ day lesson-plan unit (Siri Latina) guiding students through writing a 5-paragraph informative/explanatory research paper about an Arctic animal, aligned to CCSS W.2.2/W.3.2/W.4.2.
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Health Tonic: A Descriptive Writing Project
A descriptive-writing project for older students: teaches historical background on 19th/20th-century patent 'health tonics' and elixirs, then has students design and describe their own fictional tonic advertisement using descriptive writing.
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Ocean Animal Research Writing Project on SEA TURTLES for K-2nd Grade
A differentiated K-2 animal research and writing project that has students read informational text about sea turtles and then organize and write facts about the animal's habitat, food, characteristics, and other interesting facts.
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Mosquito Mayhem Opinion Writing
A second-grade opinion-writing project built around nonfiction reading about mosquitoes, explicitly tied to Minnesota Writing Standard 2.6.1.1.
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Important Explorers Essay Research Guide
A research-essay project guide that walks students through researching and writing a 5-paragraph MLA-style informational essay about an important historical explorer.
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Mystery Narrative Step-by-Step Writing Guide
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.
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‘Pom Pom At The Street Party’: A Fun Writing And Drawing Activity (4 + years)
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.
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Creature Selfie Drawing Prompts with Differentiated Writing Pages
No-prep drawing and writing activity where students invent and draw a creature/monster 'selfie' and then write about their creation.
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Florida (FAST) Writing Practice Test for Grade 5
Provide a Florida FAST ELA Writing practice test for Grade 5, with reading-based multiple-choice/open-response questions, language-convention items, and an extended writing task, plus a full answer key with scoring rubrics.
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