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A narrative/creative writing activity where students imagine and write about a personal 'snow day adventure,' including planning and self-editing.
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A narrative/creative writing activity where students imagine and write about a personal 'snow day adventure,' including planning and self-editing.
No-prep creative-writing packet giving students a themed story-starter sentence to finish in their own words, with two page layouts per prompt (a blank version and one with illustration space).
A narrative-writing activity for 2nd-5th graders to practice thinking through and writing about calming-down strategies via a created story.
No-prep creative-writing packet giving students a themed story-starter sentence to finish in their own words, with two page layouts per prompt (a blank version and one with illustration space).
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.
No-prep creative-writing packet giving students a themed story-starter sentence to finish in their own words, with two page layouts per prompt (a blank version and one with illustration space).
A creative-writing activity where students imagine listing a Roman house for sale, applying knowledge of ancient Roman homes to a real-estate-listing format.
Give students a creative-writing template to record and report on their first day(s) of school, formatted as a newspaper front page.
A template mimicking an iPhone iMessage interface (contact list, message bubbles, app screen) that students fill in to create fictional text-message conversations, for creative writing or social-skills practice.
A set of Fox in Socks (Dr. Seuss) themed writing/drawing prompts for early-elementary students, connected to Read Across America Week.
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A no-prep creative-writing packet of fall-themed "finish the story" prompts to build narrative writing skills.
Teaches early writers to produce sequential 'how-to' expository writing about making a banana split, using leveled models, checklists, and picture-sequencing supports.
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 slide deck teaching the concept of puns/wordplay through examples (joke puns, food puns, punnies/comics) and a creative-writing assignment applying puns.
An interactive PowerPoint writing/reading activity built around an animated short film 'Llama Drama', teaching sequencing, true/false comprehension, and summarizing.
A blank messaging-app (Signal-style) conversation template that lets students write fictional or creative text-message conversations to build communication and creative writing skills.
An interactive slide-deck lesson built around a short animated film ('The Counting Sheep') teaching sequencing, true/false comprehension, and summarizing.
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.
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.
Have students write and perform a short skit set in Chinatown, practicing creative writing, speaking, and vocabulary in a cooperative or independent project format.
A creative-writing and drawing activity that has students imagine and describe an alien and its home planet, encouraging imaginative engagement with space themes.
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 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.