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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.
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Write conversations through speech bubbles, picture prompts, chat templates and narrative lessons. Guided packs provide additional story-writing support.
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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 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
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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.
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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.
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24 Additional Creative Writing Prompts to inspire Your Students
Google Slideshow of creative writing prompts (second in a series) to inspire student writing, with mini-lessons on story elements and dialogue.
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Back to School - First Day of School - "What are they talking about?"
A creative-writing worksheet where students invent or recall dialogue between people in a first-day-of-school image, to be used as source material for a short skit/mini play.
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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.
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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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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.
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‘Pom Pom At The Obedience Class’: A Fun Writing And Drawing Activity (4 years +)
A vocabulary and creative-writing activity set at a dog obedience class, contrasting a well-behaved dog with several other dogs (including a repeatedly 'naughty dog') across a set of training exercises.
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The Plague Doctor - Fact Sheet & Worksheets
Discover the mysterious world of plague doctors with this engaging teaching resource. Students become amateur historians as they explore three informative resources about these frightening, yet fascinating figures from medieval Europe.
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Back to School Speech Bubble Writing Prompts | Creative Writing
Creative writing practice for early/emerging writers using picture-based speech-bubble prompts.
Conversation templatesGuided writing packs
‘Pom Pom At The Vet’: A Fun Writing And Drawing Activity (4 years +)
A vocabulary, sequencing, and creative-writing activity set at a veterinary clinic, including a simple money/addition exercise using a mock invoice.
Guided writing packs
Writing Activities for Park Lane School Presents The Wizard of Oz (6-10 years)
A set of creative-writing and reflection prompts that follow the chapters of the companion story 'Park Lane School Presents... The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', letting children explore their own experiences and feelings alongside the story's events.
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Discovering the Plague Doctor: Fact Sheet and Worksheets
A creative-writing/history worksheet prompting students to imagine and write what a plague doctor might have said to a suffering patient, using a supplied word bank.
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4th of July Speech Bubble Writing Prompts | Creative Writing
A creative-writing packet for emerging writers using 4th of July themed pictures with empty speech bubbles to prompt imaginative dialogue writing.
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Halloween Speech Bubble Writing Prompts | Creative Writing
Creative-writing prompts for emerging writers using Halloween-themed picture scenes with empty speech bubbles.
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Creative Writing Gr 4-5
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.
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Creative Writing Gr 5-6
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 5-6 students through narrative, poetry, and persuasive/commercial writing forms.
Story dialogueGuided writing packs
Creative Writing Gr 6-8
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.
Conversation templates
Houseparty Template (Editable on Google Slides)
A Google Slides template styled after the Houseparty video-chat app, letting students design and fill in a mock video-chat conversation for a creative-writing or role-play activity.
Editable
Story dialogueGuided writing packs
How Chipmunk Got His Stripes Interactive Read-Aloud Activities
A picture-book companion of interactive read-aloud activities supplementing 'How Chipmunk Got His Stripes' by Joseph Bruchac and James Bruchac.
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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.