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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.
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Give writers a starting point for an original story. Explore character and setting prompts, imaginative adventures, personal narratives and finish-the-story activities, with planning tools and book-linked writing for support.
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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.
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Narrative Writing Picture Prompts To Inspire Your Students' Stories
A set of 15 picture-based narrative writing prompts to inspire student story writing.
Characters, settings & story starters
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.
Characters, settings & story starters
Story Starters
These Story Starters are perfect for helping students write or tell stories. With a character, setting, and plot card, they can create a fun and unique story. This is a great way to encourage creativity and imagination in your students.
Characters, settings & story starters
Narrative Writing Prompts | Writing Prompts by Genre | Idea Starters
Provides printable narrative writing prompts to give students story ideas and practice writing a story with a sequence of events.
Characters, settings & story starters
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.
Characters, settings & story starters
Story Generator: 10,000,000 Combinations (Google Sheets)
A digital 'roll a story' creative writing tool built in Google Sheets that randomly generates a character, plot, and setting combination (10 million possible combinations) to prompt student story writing.
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Characters, settings & story starters
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.
Characters, settings & story starters
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.
Finish or retell a story
An Introduction to 6 Word Stories | Getting to Know You Activity
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.
Finish or retell a story
Finish the Story: Back to School Writing Prompts
A no-prep creative-writing packet of back to school-themed "finish the story" prompts to build narrative writing skills.
Personal narratives & reflection
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.
Characters, settings & story starters
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.
Characters, settings & story starters
Silly Stories Story Starters
This product is great for helping students learn to write stories. The Silly Stories Story Starters include a character, setting, and plot. This makes it easy for students to create a story. The story starters are also great for sparking creativity.
Characters, settings & story starters
Using Adjectives in Creative Writing Activity
A single-page creative writing prompt asking students to use adjectives to vividly describe a humorous illustrated scene.
Book & film connections
Novel Study Worksheets - Hour of the Olympics - Magic Tree House
Post-reading novel-study worksheet for the Magic Tree House chapter book "Hour of the Olympics" by Mary Pope Osborne: guides students through identifying setting/time, two open-ended 10-item response lists, a chapter-by-chapter (Chapters 1-10) summary grid, and two creative-writing prompts.
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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.
Book & film connections
Novel Study Worksheets - High Tide in Hawaii - Magic Tree House
Post-reading novel-study worksheet for the Magic Tree House chapter book "High Tide in Hawaii" by Mary Pope Osborne: guides students through identifying setting/time, two open-ended 10-item response lists, a chapter-by-chapter (Chapters 1-10) summary grid, and two creative-writing prompts.
Characters, settings & story starters
Creative Writing Prompts Grade 3 | The Mysterious Cave
Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on a mysterious cave, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Characters, settings & story starters
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.
Book & film connections
Novel Study Worksheets - Late Lunch with Llamas - Magic Tree House
Post-reading novel-study worksheet for the Magic Tree House chapter book "Late Lunch with Llamas" by Mary Pope Osborne: guides students through identifying setting/time, two open-ended 10-item response lists, a chapter-by-chapter (Chapters 1-10) summary grid, and two creative-writing prompts.
Characters, settings & story starters
Imagine You Can Travel Through Space: Write A Story (9-13 years)
A creative writing prompt worksheet using a science-fiction space travel scenario, combined with research questions about the solar system and space, culminating in a narrative or diary writing task.
Writing craft & guided lessonsBook & film connections
"Loser" Mentor Text Study • Writing in second person POV
A lesson using passages from Jerry Spinelli's novel 'Loser' and Jamaica Kincaid's short story 'Girl' as mentor texts to teach students how to write in second-person point of view