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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 activity in which students imagine themselves as paparazzi who spotted the Wolf and the Pig, and record descriptive details about the sighting.
A creative-writing activity packet teaching high school students to create black-out poems (from printed text, blacking out unused words) and found poems (cutting and arranging words from print sources), intended as a flexible filler or multi-day creative writing lesson.
A character-creation worksheet for a creative writing/story project, prompting students to draw and describe an original story character and assign personality traits.
A writing activity that guides students through planning and drafting an informative/explanatory text on a chosen topic.
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 that models story-opening techniques with a jungle-themed mentor text, prompting students to write their own animal adventure story.
A creative-writing resource that teaches students to plan and write a spooky/suspense story, using fiction-writing technique tips and a model story.
A creative writing activity that reframes the Hansel and Gretel story in a modern tabloid/paparazzi context to prompt imaginative narrative 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.
creative writing resource that guides students through brainstorming, planning, and writing an original superhero story using a series of graphic organizers
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.
An ESL/EFL nonfiction reading passage and writing worksheet about Bookcrossing, the worldwide book-sharing movement, used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and personal-opinion/comparative essay-writing skills for teen or adult English learners.
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.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a nonfiction-style informational passage about The Phantom of the Opera, used to practice reading comprehension, vocabulary, and extended written response in English.
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 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').
Introduce young writers to 18 different poetry forms and guide them through writing an original poem in each form, compiled into a personal poetry book.
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 post-reading creative-writing project for the novel "Number the Stars" that uses the "I Am" poem format to build character analysis and critical-thinking skills.
An end-of-year reflective writing activity in which students write a letter to their future selves about the past school year and goals for next year.
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.