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My Snow Day | Reading & Writing Printables
A short winter-themed reading and writing packet built around a snow-day story.
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Story Starters Brainstorm Page
Brainstorming template to help students plan a short story before writing.
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Zoo Animals Endless Creative Writing Prompts
Provides a low-prep, reusable creative-writing framework using the 'Somebody Wants But So Then' (SWBST) story structure, themed around zoo animal character cards.
Characters, settings & story starters
Island Treasure Hunt Writing Activity | Problem Solving and Adventure
Creative writing activity using a treasure-hunt adventure theme to help students plan and write a narrative story with character, setting, problem, and solution elements, plus self-editing practice.
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Art Fun Add It! Drawing and Writing Prompts
Build creative drawing and writing skills through themed 'Add It!' prompts that ask students to draw a list of specific items into one scene, then write about it.
Writing craft & guided lessons
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.
Writing craft & guided lessons
Waking up the Joys of Writing - Activity Book
A creative-writing activity book that gives students ten 'flat' (bare, low-detail) sentences and has them rewrite each one repeatedly over a five-day cycle, adding detail and changing tone/mood, to build comfort and fluency with descriptive writing.
Writing craft & guided lessons
Love to Write!: Activities to Sharpen Creative Writing Skills
A 146-page reproducible activity book teaching creative writing (prose and poetry) techniques such as story structure, description, character development, point of view, figurative language, letter/editorial writing, and poetic forms.
Characters, settings & story starters
Vocabulary Story Writing Activity
Single-slide-deck activity directing students to write an original story that incorporates new vocabulary words.
Editable
Writing craft & guided lessons
Creative Writing Gr 3-4
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 3-4 students through the writing process.
Characters, settings & story starters
Superhero Sidekick Tryouts Writing Activity | Character traits, story
A creative-writing activity where students invent a superhero-sidekick story using a choice board (character, setting, problem, solution), then write and self-edit a short story.
Finish or retell a storyBook & film connections
Three Little Pigs | Official Police Statement | If I Were... Writing
A creative writing activity where students compare the pig's and wolf's versions of the Three Little Pigs story and write an official police statement from the point of view they believe.
Editable
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‘Pom Pom At The Beach’: A Fun Writing And Drawing Activity (4 years +)
A vocabulary and creative-writing activity set at the beach, including an environmental-awareness segment on the danger of ocean plastic pollution to wildlife, and a sequenced narrative-writing exercise about a beach day.
Answers included
Personal narratives & reflection
‘Pom Pom And Her Buddy’: A Fun Writing And Drawing Activity (6 years +)
A narrative-based vocabulary and creative-writing activity in which the well-behaved dog character 'Pom Pom' is bitten by another dog and chooses to walk away and become friends with a formerly troublesome dog rather than seek revenge.
Writing craft & guided lessons
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.
Writing craft & guided lessons
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.
Characters, settings & story starters
Roll a Story | Creative Writing | Narrative Genre | Quick Activity | No Prep
A creative-writing activity where students roll a die three times to select a character, setting, and problem, then plan and write their own story, optionally inspired by an included short story ('Three Free Wishes').
Finish or retell a storyBook & film connections
Hansel and Gretel | Paparazzi News | Creative Writing
A creative writing activity that reframes the Hansel and Gretel story in a modern tabloid/paparazzi context to prompt imaginative narrative writing.
Editable
Characters, settings & story starters
Superhero Time Travel Rescue Mission | Creative Problem Solving
A creative-writing activity where students invent a superhero time-travel rescue story using a choice board (character, setting, problem, solution), then write and self-edit a short story.
Finish or retell a storyBook & film connections
Three Little Pigs | Point of View Activity
A point-of-view writing activity where students record the Three Little Pigs story from both the pigs' and the wolf's perspectives side by side.
Editable
Personal narratives & reflection
Calming Down Skills Writing Challenge | SEL Skills Focus
A narrative-writing activity for 2nd-5th graders to practice thinking through and writing about calming-down strategies via a created story.
Personal narratives & reflection
Self-Control SEL Skills Writing Challenge
A narrative-writing activity that has students create a self-control story, choosing story elements and applying a self-control strategy to a problem, then editing their writing.
Personal narratives & reflectionBook & film connections
Character Obituary - For Any Literature (Editable in Google Slides)
Give students an alternative creative-writing format for analyzing a character who dies in a text, applicable to any short story, novel, play, or history unit.
Editable
Writing craft & guided lessons
Creative Writing Fun: Scribe Activity Booklet
A multi-activity creative-writing booklet that opens with a craft instruction for making a decorated pencil (duct-tape flower pen), then leads students through writing haiku poems and an outlined short story.