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Assess ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions with teacher and student rubrics designed for printing on sticky notes.
Includes: Teacher and student rubrics for six writing traits · Sticky-note printing instructions
Score narrative writing using four performance levels for sensory description, character thoughts, dialogue, and grammar and style.
Includes: 1-page rubric with 4 performance levels (A-D) across 4 criteria (Snapshot, Thought-shot, Dialogue, Grammar & Style) and a total score field
Help students assess their own narrative writing or give peer feedback using four performance levels and specific writing criteria.
Assess fourth-grade narrative, opinion, and informative writing with rubrics and student checklists. Choose the narrative rubric for story writing.
Includes: narrative writing rubric (student checklist, teacher grading guideline, scorecard, comment section, bordered and non-bordered versions)
Assess third-grade narrative, opinion, and informative writing with rubrics and student checklists. Choose the narrative rubric for story writing.
Includes: informative writing rubric (student checklist, teacher grading guideline, scorecard, comment section, bordered and non-bordered versions)
Assess fifth-grade narrative, opinion, and informative writing with rubrics and student checklists. Choose the narrative rubric for story writing.
Includes: informative writing rubric (student checklist, teacher grading guideline, scorecard, comment section, bordered and non-bordered versions)
Guide students through a personal narrative using graphic organizers and examples, then assess the finished writing with the included rubric.
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.
Includes: mystery-classics examples page with due-dates tracker · writing tips / self and peer editing checklist · scoring rubric (CCRA.W.3.A, CCRA.W.3.B, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.L.1-2)
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 4-5 students through character development, descriptive writing, poetry, and imaginative writing techniques.
Includes: Guide to the Writing Process · Holistic Writing Evaluation form (lettered rating-scale rubric with writer's name and writing-project fields) · Writing Extension Activity Suggestions for each activity
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.
Includes: introduction page explaining the 'Voice Lessons' / 'Song Lessons' pedagogical approach and citing Nancy Dean · one-page literary device definitions and examples (Details, Diction, Imagery, Point of View, Tone)
A magic-potions-and-spells themed creative writing activity where students design a magic potion or spell using assigned 'magic power' traits, then write about it using a graphic organizer and are assessed with a rubric.
Includes: Instructions page (11 steps) for selecting/printing potion or spell graphic organizers, assigning 2 magic powers per student, and running the assessment · Creative Writing Rubric (Teacher) - scores organization, vocabulary/word choice, capitalization, spelling, punctuation, neatness, and illustration on a 1-4 scale, with variant versions that add/drop the illustration criterion · Creative Writing Rubric (Student) - matching self-assessment version with areas of strength / something to think about
Animal Farm Eulogy Writing Assignment\nThis creative writing resource challenges students to eulogize Boxer's death from Animal Farm. Students will write a eulogy from the perspective of one of the animal characters that highlights Boxer's admirable traits and contributions to the farm. The Google Doc file includes clear guidelines on structuring the…
A creative-writing activity introducing students to the 'six word story' format as a getting-to-know-you and theme-identification exercise, with a scoring rubric.
Includes: Introductory explanation of the six-word story concept with example stories · Step-by-step activity instructions (5 steps) including a link to an external video (Larry Smith) · List of possible personal-story topics
Students write original story conclusions connected to science concepts. The bundle includes grading criteria for assessing their creative responses.
Includes: shared 'Science Story Prompt Marking Criteria' rubric (docx and pdf versions), scoring Creativity and Imagination, Connection to Concepts, Plot Development and Resolution, and Language and Writing Style
A creative writing project that has students demonstrate comprehension of Jack London's short story 'To Build a Fire' by identifying a turning point in the plot and writing an alternate ending from that point, using plot-diagram planning and a grading rubric.
Includes: Title page · Assignment instructions and requirements (minimum 2-page alternate ending, 3rd person, consistent setting/theme) · 3rd Person 'Cheat Sheet' scaffold
A creative writing resource using an arctic animals theme and the SWBST (Somebody Wants But So Then) story structure to give first-to-third grade students low-prep writing prompts that also build arctic animal knowledge.
Includes: instructions (7 steps for using the resource) · teacher creative writing rubric · student self-assessment rubric
A slide deck teaching the concept of puns/wordplay through examples (joke puns, food puns, punnies/comics) and a creative-writing assignment applying puns.
Includes: definition and examples of puns · 'PUN OFF' partner game instructions · Food Puns slide set
A creative-writing characterization activity in which students write a eulogy for the character Piggy after reading Chapter 11 (or the full novel) of Lord of the Flies.
Includes: teacher note describing classroom use (staged funeral, candles, reading eulogies aloud) · assignment directions and step-by-step requirements · two example eulogies (narrative and poetic) based on other texts
Provides a low-prep, reusable creative-writing framework using the 'Somebody Wants But So Then' (SWBST) story structure, themed around zoo animal character cards.
Includes: instructions page · teacher creative writing rubric · student self-assessment rubric
A literary-terms vocabulary lesson package teaching 13 terms related to Points of View through a slide presentation, guided notes, a creative-writing application task, and multiple assessment options.
Includes: 'Download Files' cover page listing all included files and their purposes · Presentation: Points of View Terms (14 slides) with definitions/elaborations on 13 literary terms · Presentation Notes fill-in-the-blank worksheet (one blank per term, for students to complete while viewing the presentation)
A creative-writing unit using cards naming US First Ladies as character prompts, for Women's History Month.
Includes: Instructions page describing two options for using the character cards (as secondary characters vs. as the main character in the student's story) · Teacher and student versions of an 8-criteria creative-writing rubric (basic story elements, organization, vocabulary/word choice, capitalization, spelling, punctuation, neatness, illustration) · Character cards naming numerous US First Ladies (e.g., Abigail Adams, Barbara Bush, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Dr. Jill Biden), appearing to repeat as a duplicate set