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Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on inventions / robots, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Provide open-ended visual/photo writing prompts (animal photos) to inspire creative descriptive or narrative student writing.
Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on a mysterious island, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Post-reading novel-study worksheet for the Magic Tree House chapter book "Ghost Town at Sundown" 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.
Post-reading novel-study worksheet for the Magic Tree House chapter book "Narwhal on a Sunny Night" 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.
A Cinderella-themed creative writing activity with diary-entry prompts from multiple story characters' perspectives.
Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on a mysterious castle, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on a treasure hunt, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
A Google Slides-based set of 14 creative-writing prompts, each combining a character, situation, prop, setting, and phrase, to inspire short stories and flash fiction across genres (realistic fiction, fantasy, science fiction, mystery).
Creative writing practice for early/emerging writers using picture-based speech-bubble prompts.
A creative writing prompt sheet that gives students Anglo-Saxon themed vocabulary to build an original story.
Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on pets, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
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.
Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on time travel, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on a secret in the forest, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on a lost baby animal in the wild, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on a magic door to other worlds, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
A one-page creative writing prompt sheet giving students several imaginative scenario starters to practice writing story openings.
Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on weather and seasons, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Free download One creative writing prompt asking students to imagine their pet can talk and write a short story about the adventure that follows.
Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on a strange, magical book, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Start your school year off on the foot with these back to school writing prompts and activities. You will get 50 prompts that cover a lot of types of writing.
A grade-3 creative writing resource offering 8 whimsical 'crazy school day' writing prompts (each with an image cue, sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank), plus an easy version, a challenge version, teacher usage notes, and worked example stories.
Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on a special birthday, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.