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A creative writing resource that models story-opening techniques with a jungle-themed mentor text, prompting students to write their own animal adventure story.
Give students a MASH-style (fold-and-predict/spiral counting) creative writing game to randomly generate character traits and story elements for use in creative writing.
A creative-writing resource that teaches students to plan and write a spooky/suspense story, using fiction-writing technique tips and a model story.
An interactive PowerPoint writing/reading activity built around an animated short film 'Llama Drama', teaching sequencing, true/false comprehension, and summarizing.
A creative-writing resource teaching narrative structure (introduction, middle, ending) through planning prompts, a fully written model story about meeting a dinosaur at a museum, and space for students to write their own version.
A character-creation worksheet for a creative writing/story project, prompting students to draw and describe an original story character and assign personality traits.
A perspective-taking letter-writing activity where students write to characters from the story.
A creative-writing teaching resource that first reviews fiction-writing techniques (audience, genre, structure, dialogue, sentence variety) and then guides students through planning and writing an original story using a given character/setting/plot outline about a boy named Frank at a computer-game sale.
A micro-learning digital deck built around an animated short film 'The Field Trip', teaching narrative writing skills through sequencing, true/false comprehension, and summarizing activities.
A creative-writing resource in which students read the opening of a story ('A Strange Meeting') about a boy transported into a Monet painting, write their own ending, compare it to a model ending, then use provided biographical facts about Claude Monet to write an information leaflet about the artist.
A creative writing/craft activity where students invent an original mythical creature by describing its physical traits, habitat, diet, adaptations, and magic powers, then illustrate or write about it and compare their description to a partner's drawing.
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.
creative writing resource that guides students through brainstorming, planning, and writing an original superhero story using a series of graphic organizers
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 step-by-step storyboard planning guide, available as both printable and interactive Google Slides, that teaches students to plan a creative narrative by identifying its plot, setting, characters, conflict, and theme.
Has students imagine and write about becoming a prince or princess, connecting creative writing to the Cinderella story.
A creative-writing and art activity where students design their own original superhero, plan a narrative through structured graphic organizers, and present the finished story as a comic strip.
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 tutorial teaching students aged 9-13 to write a descriptive narrative about receiving and opening a present, using sensory detail and figurative language.
A creative-writing assignment in which students write a eulogy for Algernon (the mouse) from Charlie Gordon's first-person perspective, tied to the novel 'Flowers for Algernon'.
Guide students through analyzing Chaucer's Canterbury Tales pilgrims and completing a creative writing assignment that reimagines one pilgrim in a modern voice.
A creative-writing characterization activity in which students write a eulogy for the character Piggy after reading Chapter 11 (or the full novel) of Lord of the Flies.
A creative writing worksheet that prompts students to imagine finding a mysterious box in an attic, then write a diary entry, using a provided sample diary (about a family's stressful moving day) as a model.
An interactive slide-deck writing activity built around an animated short film about a bird ('Peck Pocketed') that steals items from a woman's purse to build a nest.