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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.
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Back To School Writing Prompts
Start the school year with writing that helps students share interests, set goals and tell stories. Choose quick responses, personal writing or creative first-week activities.
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Writing Activities - Back to School
A set of back-to-school drawing-and-writing prompts to ease students into the school year while practicing writing and creative thinking.
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What's in My School Bag? | Back to School Writing Prompts & Craft Acti
A back-to-school writing and craft activity where students write about the contents of their school bag and then color and assemble a backpack craft template.
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September No Prep Writing Activities
A set of no-prep, print-and-go Grade 3 writing activities using drawing-and-writing prompts tied to September topics (first day of school, classical music month, food, grandparents, Talk Like a Pirate Day, kindness).
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Back to School Writing Prompts, First Week of School Activities
A set of back-to-school themed writing prompts for the first week of school to build classroom community and encourage reflective/expressive writing.
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Classroom Decor For K-2nd, Door Signs, Labels and Bookmarks
Back-to-school classroom decor set providing door welcome signs, name tags/labels, and bookmarks for K-2 classrooms.
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Back to School Speech Bubble Writing Prompts | Creative Writing
Creative writing practice for early/emerging writers using picture-based speech-bubble prompts.
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Free Sample — September Daily Writing Prompts | 2nd–3rd Grade | Print
Give a one-week free sample of September/back-to-school-themed daily writing prompts to preview a full month-long writing prompts resource.
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Art Project All About Me Artist Set
A back-to-school 'All About Me' creative art packet where students share personal information and preferences through drawing, coloring, and writing prompts.
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Back to School Packet for 1st + 2nd Grade
A back-to-school activity packet for 1st and 2nd grade combining a decorate-your-own bookmark craft, guided writing prompts about summer/school, a numbers/addition worksheet with answer key, and a back-to-school word search.
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3D Back to School Pencil Craft
Back-to-school craft/writing activity where students write about the upcoming school year, summer vacation, and themselves, assembled into a 3D paper pencil.
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ALL ABOUT ME Poster Activity for Back to School with Writing
A back-to-school poster activity combining basic personal-info fill-in with a short goal-setting writing prompt.
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Back to School SCOOT Game and More
A getting-to-know-you SCOOT game and related activities for the start of the school year, designed to help teacher and grades 5-6 students learn about each other through icebreaker questions, writing prompts, and a song.
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Back to School - First Day of School - "What are they talking about?"
A creative-writing worksheet where students invent or recall dialogue between people in a first-day-of-school image, to be used as source material for a short skit/mini play.
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School Times: First Day of School (Worksheet) (Front page)
Give students a creative-writing template to record and report on their first day(s) of school, formatted as a newspaper front page.
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First Day of School Info Sheet
A short getting-to-know-you writing activity for the first day of school.
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Back to School - About Me - MY FAVOURITES
Help students share personal favorites and reflect on the first day of school through a fill-in worksheet and a newspaper-style writing activity.
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Student of the Week Poster, Star Student Award Program, Back to School Classroom Ideas, Teacher Awards, Writing Activity, Instant Download
Forever June Digital Design ARE YOU A TEACHER LOOKING FOR BACK TO SCHOOL IDEAS FOR YOUR STUDENTS? If you're a teacher looking for a simple way to implement a Star Student Award Program in your classroom, check out my Instant Download Student of the Week Set! This is the perfect choice at Back to School (BTS) time to reward, inspire and…
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All About Me Squares | Back to School Icebreaker Activity
A back-to-school icebreaker craft/writing activity in which students create a 6-panel poster about themselves using construction paper.
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Back to School Writing Activity: Rocket Craft Blast Off
Kickstart the beginning of the school year with an exciting and enjoyable back-to-school writing activity ! Our "Blasting Off IN" writing activity is guaranteed to make the start of the year a blast for your students. Students will be making a rocket shape book. There is a graphic organizer where students will fill out information about…
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Fall | Back to School Writing Prompt BUNDLE! 3rd-5th Grade
Writing practice across opinion, narrative, and informative/explanatory genres using fall/back-to-school prompts for 3rd-5th grade, organized by month.
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3D Back to School Bucket List
Back-to-school craft/writing activity where students create a personal bucket list for the school year, assembled into a 3D paper bucket.
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Back to School Community Building Activities
A 5-day sequence of community-building lessons for the start of the school year, using two picture books (Stone Soup, Miss Rumphius), discussion, and interactive-notebook activities to build classroom relationships and set expectations.
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Back to School Activity Bundle for Getting to Know Each Other
Provide a multi-activity bundle of first-days-of-school getting-to-know-you and classroom-organization resources for grades 5-7.
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