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Creative Dialogue Writing Prompts Worksheets.
A set of dialogue-writing prompt worksheets that give students a scenario and ask them to write out a full dialogue between characters with proper punctuation and descriptive tags.
Flash Fiction: 24 Creative Writing Prompts for Students
A Google Slides/PowerPoint deck of 24 flash-fiction creative writing prompts to give students short, timed writing practice, explained with a slide on what flash fiction is and directions for use.
Journal Prompts for Daily Writing
A large collection of draw-and-write daily journal prompt pages for a writing station, each giving students a short topic to illustrate and write about.
Storyteller's Wordshop - True Life Stories & Me and My World
A two-part personal-narrative writing journal (combining 'True Life Stories' and 'Me and My World') that prompts students to write and illustrate short personal stories using story starters, brainstorming questions, and vocabulary space.
Personal Narrative Writing, Graphic Organizer, Rubric & Examples
Guide students through a personal narrative using graphic organizers and examples, then assess the finished writing with the included rubric.
Fun Writing Activities: Creative Writing Prompts
Generate creative writing prompts by having students roll a die to randomly select a character, setting, and problem for a story.
The Extraordinary Cupcake: Lots Of Writing Tasks To Complete (9-13 years)
A creative-writing task pack that uses a fantasy narrative (shrinking into a cupcake and discovering an underwater/mermaid world) as a model text, paired with vocabulary building and multiple guided writing prompts for ages 9-13.
Narrative Writing Picture Prompts To Inspire Your Students' Stories
A set of 15 picture-based narrative writing prompts to inspire student story writing.
8 Picture Writing Prompts & Lesson Plan: Setting, Characters, & Dialog
Teach students to incorporate vivid setting descriptions, character development, and dialogue into creative/narrative writing, using picture-based writing prompts.
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Creative Journal Prompts for Daily Writing Fun.
A set of daily journal-writing prompt worksheets covering general, seasonal, and imaginative topics to build writing fluency and self-reflection.
Creative Writing Workshop: Dialogue Mini Lesson
A mini-lesson/workshop teaching secondary students how to write and punctuate dialogue effectively in narrative writing, using a slideshow, a topic-strip speaking activity, and a punctuation practice worksheet with answer key.
Answers included
The Unusual Present: Write An Imaginative Story (And More) (9-13 years)
A creative-writing worksheet that walks students through writing an imaginative short story in three paragraphs, using a provided story starter and structured planning questions.
Comic Strip Activity
A craft-and-writing activity where students cut out and assemble comic panel pieces and speech bubbles to build their own comic strip about a personal funny experience.
Daily Writing Prompt Cards
A set of 32 daily writing prompt cards to give students a ready supply of creative-writing topics, for use as a writing station, journal starter, or early-finisher activity.
Personal Narrative: Writers' Workshop (Based on Lucy Caulkins
Guide a multi-session Writer's Workshop teaching students to plan, draft, and write personal narratives about special people/moments in their lives, modeled on the Lucy Calkins Writer's Workshop approach
Creative Writing Prompt - Create Your Own Monster
A creative-writing prompt that has students invent an original monster character (with a drawing and fact sheet) and then write a graded short story featuring that monster.
A Student's Guide to Writing a Personal Narrative
Walk a student step by step through writing a personal narrative, from brainstorming through drafting, revising, and a final editing checklist.
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The Setting Sets the Mood: Teaching Students How to Write an Effective Setting
25-slide slideshow lesson teaching middle/high school students how to write descriptive story settings using sensory imagery to establish mood.
Creative Narratives Writing Prompt Bundle
Provides a set of narrative writing prompts, each supplying a pre-selected character/setting/plot combination, plus a writing-hacks reference sheet and proofreading checklist to scaffold student story writing.
Year Long Weekly Writing Prompt Journal
A year-long weekly writing journal that gives students recurring writing prompts across five categories (argumentative, narrative, explanatory, current events/critical thinking) to build writing skills over a school year.
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Skype Template (Editable on Google Slides)
An editable chat-app template (Skype-style) that lets students compose simulated text-message conversations for creative writing, historical roleplay, or novel-character dialogue.
Editable
Narrative Writing State Test Prep Prompts & Practice for Grades 4-8
A step-by-step narrative writing practice unit that scaffolds students through analyzing a sample narrative, planning, drafting, self-editing, and timed writing practice to prepare for state writing tests (e.g. STAAR, FSA).
Answers included
Narrative Writing Story Starters Beginnings Sizzling Starts
A set of 15 classroom posters, each modeling a different narrative writing technique for crafting an engaging story opening ('sizzling start'), such as action, dialogue, onomatopoeia, descriptive setting, and cliffhangers.