Journey Into The Deepest, Darkest Jungle: Write A Story (9-13 years)
A creative writing resource that models story-opening techniques with a jungle-themed mentor text, prompting students to write their own animal adventure story.
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The Character Builder & Story Builder Activity
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.
Editable
At The Stroke Of Midnight: Write A Spooky Story (And More) (9-13 years)
A creative-writing resource that teaches students to plan and write a spooky/suspense story, using fiction-writing technique tips and a model story.
The Day I Met A Dinosaur: Write The Story (9-13 years)
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.
Little Red Riding Hood | Letter Writing Activity
A perspective-taking letter-writing activity where students write to characters from the story.
Editable
The Field Trip Animated Writing Activity | Short Film
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.
Editable
A Strange Meeting: Complete The Story (9-13 years)
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.
Answers included
Mythical Creatures Writing Craftivity (Create Your Own Mythical Creature)
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.
Create a Superhero Graphic Organizer (Editable in Google Slides)
creative writing resource that guides students through brainstorming, planning, and writing an original superhero story using a series of graphic organizers
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Storyboard Creative Writing Planning Guide
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.
Editable
Cinderella: If I Were A Prince / Princess | Editable Reading Activity
Has students imagine and write about becoming a prince or princess, connecting creative writing to the Cinderella story.
Editable
Superhero Activity Bundle
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.
Editable
Write Algernon's Eulogy as Charlie Gordon: Creative writing Flowers for Algernon
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'.
Editable
Novel Study Guide: The Canterbury Tales
Guide students through analyzing Chaucer's Canterbury Tales pilgrims and completing a creative writing assignment that reimagines one pilgrim in a modern voice.
Editable
Piggy's Eulogy: Characterization Activity Lord of the Flies chapter 11
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.
Imagine You Find A Mysterious Box In the Attic: Write A Diary (9-13 years)
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.
Pumpkin Creative Drawing and Coloring Activities
A set of open-ended creative drawing, coloring, and short creative-writing pages on a pumpkin theme.
Arctic Animals Endless Creative Writing Prompts
A creative writing resource using an arctic animals theme and the SWBST (Somebody Wants But So Then) story structure to give first-to-third grade students low-prep writing prompts that also build arctic animal knowledge.
Creative Writing Prompts Grade 3 | Journey Through Space
Gives 3rd-grade students eight themed creative-writing prompts (theme: Journey Through Space) with sentence starters, guiding questions, and word banks so they can organize a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end, develop their own ideas, and build writing confidence.
Creative Writing Prompts Grade 3 | Discovering a New World
Gives 3rd-grade students eight themed creative-writing prompts (theme: Discovering a New World) with sentence starters, guiding questions, and word banks so they can organize a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end, develop their own ideas, and build writing confidence.
Creative Writing Prompts Grade 3 | An Animal Saves the Day
Gives 3rd-grade students eight themed creative-writing prompts (theme: An Animal Saves the Day) with sentence starters, guiding questions, and word banks so they can organize a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end, develop their own ideas, and build writing confidence.
Creative Writing Prompts Grade 3 | I Turn Into an Animal
Gives 3rd-grade students eight themed creative-writing prompts (theme: I Turn Into an Animal) with sentence starters, guiding questions, and word banks so they can organize a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end, develop their own ideas, and build writing confidence.
Creative Writing Prompts Grade 3 | Adventure at the Lake
Gives 3rd-grade students eight themed creative-writing prompts (theme: Adventure at the Lake) with sentence starters, guiding questions, and word banks so they can organize a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end, develop their own ideas, and build writing confidence.
Creative Writing Prompts Grade 3 | A Strange Discovery
Gives 3rd-grade students eight themed creative-writing prompts (theme: A Strange Discovery) with sentence starters, guiding questions, and word banks so they can organize a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end, develop their own ideas, and build writing confidence.