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A novel/book companion for 'Little Bear's Visit' by Else Holmelund Minarik, with chapter comprehension questions, a creative writing extension, author's purpose and character traits activities, and a true/false quiz.
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.
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.
Free download Ten Christmas-themed creative writing prompts to prompt short student writing responses.
Fall/autumn-themed creative writing prompts for high school ELA, paired with note-taking sheets.
A short creative-writing prompt in which students write a story inspired by a cartoon picture, incorporating five given vocabulary words, framed as a soldier's letter for Memorial Day.
A creative writing resource using a short narrative (a student's chaotic first day under a new school timetable) as a stimulus for multiple writing tasks.
A simple Thanksgiving-themed creative writing and drawing prompt asking students to invent a turkey's pre-Thanksgiving adventure story.
Provide open-ended visual/photo writing prompts (animal photos) to inspire creative descriptive or narrative student writing.
A creative writing prompt sheet that gives students Anglo-Saxon themed vocabulary to build an original story.
A set of photo-based visual writing prompts using animal photographs to inspire open-ended creative, descriptive, or expository student writing.
A Memorial Day writing-prompt worksheet in which students write a short story about a scene at a national cemetery, using five given vocabulary words.
Give elementary students a choice of short Christmas-themed creative writing prompts on an editable, typeable PowerPoint slide.
Give students Christmas/winter-themed sentence-starter writing prompts to complete into their own short story.
Give students a varied set of Christmas-themed writing prompts (short-answer, list-making, recipe/procedural, and free-write formats).
Provide decorative writing-prompt 'toppers' (reindeer, Santa, snowman, elf) paired with open-ended Christmas story starters to prompt creative writing.
Spark your students imaginations with these "Career and Community Helpers" writing prompts! These are great for Career Day or teaching about Community Helpers. They are perfect for kindergarten, grade and second grade classrooms.
A one-page creative writing prompt sheet giving students several imaginative scenario starters to practice writing story openings.
An editable, Christmas/holiday-themed interactive writing prompt set organized by week, giving students a choice of creative writing prompts for each week of December.
Earth Day Story Worksheet for Students Celebrate Earth Day with this creative story writing activity. Students imagine and illustrate what they would do if they were in charge of taking care of the Earth for one day. This cross-curricular Earth Day resource promotes creativity, imagination, and fine motor skills. Use it for whole group,…
Printable fall-themed picture writing prompts for early literacy practice.
This family words worksheet is a great way for students to learn about different families. With a word bank of family names, students can write a passage about their own family or any other family.
No-prep creative-writing packet giving students a themed story-starter sentence to finish in their own words, with two page layouts per prompt (a blank version and one with illustration space).
No-prep creative-writing packet giving students a themed story-starter sentence to finish in their own words, with two page layouts per prompt (a blank version and one with illustration space).