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A 112-page guide teaching poetic devices and forms (alliteration, hyperbole, metaphor, personification, concrete poetry, couplets, etc.) through explanation and writing activities, aligned to Common Core writing standards.
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').
Prompt descriptive/creative writing inspired by If I Ran the Zoo.
A movie-study lesson plan/worksheet packet for the film Flora & Ulysses (2021), with 30 activities building reading comprehension, vocabulary, character analysis, theme analysis, data/graph interpretation, and creative writing skills.
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.
A creative writing/role-play activity where students act as paparazzi reporting on characters from Little Red Riding Hood.
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 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 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.
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 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 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 worksheet set where students write lyrics or a poem describing what it feels like to experience each of 11 specific emotions.
A movie-study resource built around Disney's Lilo & Stitch (2002), teaching reading comprehension, vocabulary, character/theme analysis, data reading, and creative writing tied to the film.
A research and creative-writing project in which students design an original superhero (or team) and write/illustrate a graphic novel/comic strip that teaches readers about an environmental issue and a possible solution.
A creative-writing worksheet where students write two comparative diary entries imagining life as a pioneer child in 1789 versus a modern-day child, to build historical empathy and perspective.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gives 3rd-grade students eight themed creative-writing prompts (theme: A Robot Moves In) 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.
Gives 3rd-grade students eight themed creative-writing prompts (theme: An Exciting Journey) 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.
Gives 3rd-grade students eight themed creative-writing prompts (theme: A Day On Another Planet) 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.