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These Story Starters are perfect for helping students write or tell stories. With a character, setting, and plot card, they can create a fun and unique story. This is a great way to encourage creativity and imagination in your students.
A two-part personal-narrative writing journal (combining 'True Life Stories' and 'Me and My World') that prompts students to write and illustrate short personal stories using story starters, brainstorming questions, and vocabulary space.
Prompt elementary students to reflect on and write about positive personal character qualities (e.g., kindness, bravery, wisdom, sensitivity), building vocabulary and self-exploration around character traits.
Free download An SEL resource of journaling and discussion prompts to help students who struggle with anxiety reflect, identify triggers, and build coping strategies, for individual check-ins or group/push-in lessons.
Provide a large set of print-and-go expository (informational/how-to) writing prompts so students practice organizing and explaining factual information in writing.
A Cinderella-themed creative writing prompt where students imagine finding a magic wand and design their own wand.
Give students structured writing prompts for many poem genres/forms, each with a brief description of the form's rules and an example poem, so students can practice writing original poems in that form.
A year-long, self-directed creative writing activity where students combine a character, setting, and plot (from 13 options each) to write short stories, intended for whole-class writing practice or early finishers.
A Cinderella-themed creative writing activity with diary-entry prompts from multiple story characters' perspectives.
Build opinion/creative writing skills through imaginative 'If I could...' prompts.
Provide expository writing prompts (scenario + directions) with a built-in scoring rubric to build students' expository/persuasive letter-writing skills.
Free download A no-prep art-history drawing and writing activity where students reimagine three famous artists/artworks in a modern context.
Give 4th-grade students argumentative/persuasive writing prompts to practice supporting an opinion with reasons.
Teach the informative-writing process (research/brainstorming, main points and support, introduction and conclusion, draft/edit/revise, final draft) through a May-themed set of topic cards and differentiated writing prompts.
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 2-3 students through the writing process (prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, publishing).
End-of-year reflective writing prompts paired with note-taking sheets so students can process and write about their school year.
Teach the informative-writing process (research/brainstorming, main points and support, introduction and conclusion, draft/edit/revise, final draft) through a space-themed set of topic cards and differentiated writing prompts.
Teach the informative-writing process (research/brainstorming, main points and support, introduction and conclusion, draft/edit/revise, final draft) through a dinosaur-themed set of topic cards and differentiated writing prompts.
A creative writing resource that teaches fiction-writing craft (audience, genre, structure, sentence variety, suspense-building) through direct instruction, a model short story ('The Art Gallery') about a boy who has an eerie encounter with a painting, and a guided prompt to write a follow-up story.
Four diary-entry writing prompts that ask students to write in the voice of different Little Red Riding Hood characters, practicing perspective-taking and narrative/personal writing.
Ready for one of the most versatile extension activities? Let's go! This activity can be used as a warm-up to get students thinking creatively about how they might use various objects to complete a goal. This could be amplified to include a debate in which students discuss why one object is more useful than the other. After working…
Gives ESL/EFL students a reading comprehension and writing practice worksheet built around a short nonfiction passage about Moscow, Russia.
A weekly self-esteem journal with structured daily prompts to help the user reflect on achievements, positive experiences, and moments of pride.
Diary-writing prompts that have students write in the first-person voice of four Goldilocks and the Three Bears characters.