Stories & imaginative writing
Creative Writing Gr 3-4
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 3-4 students through the writing process.
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Women's History Month Endless Creative Writing Prompts
creative writing unit using historical-women character cards and a SWBST (somebody-wants-but-so-then) graphic organizer, for Women's History Month
Stories & imaginative writing
Creative Writing Gr 4-5
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 4-5 students through character development, descriptive writing, poetry, and imaginative writing techniques.
Stories & imaginative writing
Zoo Animals Endless Creative Writing Prompts
Provides a low-prep, reusable creative-writing framework using the 'Somebody Wants But So Then' (SWBST) story structure, themed around zoo animal character cards.
Stories & imaginative writing
Getting Kids to Write!: A Natural Approach to Creative Writing
A 114-page reproducible creative-writing book presenting an informal, personal-experience-based approach to teaching writing, with a large collection of open-ended writing topic activities.
Stories & imaginative writing
Superhero Sidekick Tryouts Writing Activity | Character traits, story
A creative-writing activity where students invent a superhero-sidekick story using a choice board (character, setting, problem, solution), then write and self-edit a short story.
Stories & imaginative writing
Vocabulary Story Writing Activity
Single-slide-deck activity directing students to write an original story that incorporates new vocabulary words.
Editable
Poetry & descriptive writing
Budding Poets: A Beginner's Guide to Verse and Rhyme
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.
Answers included
Stories & imaginative writing
Creative Writing on Food
A short creative-writing activity in which students arrange food items into a picture and then write a description or short story about it.
Poetry & descriptive writing
End of the School Year Limerick Activity
A creative writing activity where students write a limerick about the end of the school year and summer vacation.
Journals & personal reflection
End of Year Writing Activity: Soundtrack Reflection
Editable end-of-year reflective writing activity where students create a soundtrack representing memorable events of their school year and write a reflective letter about their song choices.
Editable
Stories & imaginative writing
Writing Creative Vocabulary Activity
A single-page creative writing activity where students design and describe a dress and an associated character using creative vocabulary.
Stories & imaginative writing
An Introduction to 6 Word Stories | Getting to Know You Activity
A creative-writing activity introducing students to the 'six word story' format as a getting-to-know-you and theme-identification exercise, with a scoring rubric.
Stories & imaginative writing
Superhero Time Travel Rescue Mission | Creative Problem Solving
A creative-writing activity where students invent a superhero time-travel rescue story using a choice board (character, setting, problem, solution), then write and self-edit a short story.
Stories & imaginative writing
Bird in a Boot Draw and Color Creative Activities
A directed-drawing and creative-writing/coloring activity themed around a bird sitting in a boot, for elementary art or fine-motor/creative-thinking practice.
Poetry & descriptive writing
Haiku Poem Writing Activity Lesson Plan, Interactive Notebook Template
Teach students the 5-7-5 haiku poem structure through a guided lesson and let them draft, revise, and publish their own haiku using interactive notebook templates.
Reading-linked writing
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity - Vienna - Austria
Build ESL/EFL reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills using a nonfiction passage about the city of Vienna, Austria.
Stories & imaginative writing
Comic Strip Activity
A craft-and-writing activity where students cut out and assemble comic panel pieces and speech bubbles to build their own comic strip about a personal funny experience.
Stories & imaginative writing
Character Obituary - For Any Literature (Editable in Google Slides)
Give students an alternative creative-writing format for analyzing a character who dies in a text, applicable to any short story, novel, play, or history unit.
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Reading-linked writing
'Encanto' Lesson Plan & Worksheets | Grades 2 - 9
A full movie-study unit for Encanto (2021) covering reading comprehension, character study, themes, and cross-curricular tie-ins (social studies, maths, science, art, music, writing).
Answers included
Stories & imaginative writing
Goldilocks and the Three Bears | Official Police Report | Creative Writing
Creative-writing activity framing students as a police officer investigating the events at the three bears' house, writing an official police report.
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Reading-linked writing
'Flora & Ulysses' Lesson Plan & Worksheets | Grades 4 - 8
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.
Answers included
Stories & imaginative writing
Creative Writing Gr 5-6
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 5-6 students through narrative, poetry, and persuasive/commercial writing forms.
Stories & imaginative writing
Goldilocks and the Three Bears | Paparazzi News | Creative Writing
Creative-writing activity in which students role-play as paparazzi who 'spot' each Goldilocks character and report details about them.
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