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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.
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.
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.
Build ESL/EFL reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills using a nonfiction passage about the city of Vienna, Austria.
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.
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.
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).
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 3-4 students through the writing process.
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 reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 6-8 students through journal writing, poetry forms, characterization, and narrative/problem-solving writing.
A multi-activity creative-writing booklet that opens with a craft instruction for making a decorated pencil (duct-tape flower pen), then leads students through writing haiku poems and an outlined short story.
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 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 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 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.
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.