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A set of end-of-year creative writing and reflection activities styled as paper versions of social media apps/posts (Facebook-style profile, Twitter-style post, Instagram-style vacation posts, etc.).
Give students a creative-writing template to record and report on their first day(s) of school, formatted as a newspaper front page.
A slide deck teaching the concept of puns/wordplay through examples (joke puns, food puns, punnies/comics) and a creative-writing assignment applying puns.
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 creative-writing and drawing activity that has students imagine and describe an alien and its home planet, encouraging imaginative engagement with space themes.
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.
A creative-writing tutorial teaching students aged 9-13 to write informal thank-you letters using correct letter format, tone, and vocabulary.
A no-prep, 5-day Grade 6 end-of-school-year ELA packet (teacher guide, student worksheets, and answer key as separate files) combining literacy skill review with reflective/celebratory last-week-of-school activities.
A set of 15 classroom posters, each modeling a different narrative writing technique for crafting an engaging story opening ('sizzling start'), such as action, dialogue, onomatopoeia, descriptive setting, and cliffhangers.
Chapter quizzes and writing prompts for a novel study of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, offered as both printable PDF and digital Google Slides/Forms versions.
Build financial-literacy knowledge (ratios, rates, percents, taxes, budgeting, banking, credit, investing, insurance, entrepreneurship, economics) together with reading-comprehension skills through a year of daily short narrative passages.
A four-week classroom mindfulness workbook (Mindful Moments for Middle Schoolers, by Giselle Shardlow of Kids Yoga Stories) providing daily five-to-ten-minute mindfulness activities for sixth-to-eighth-grade classrooms.
A creative writing activity where students write a limerick about the end of the school year and summer vacation.
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 step-by-step narrative writing practice unit that scaffolds students through analyzing a sample narrative, planning, drafting, self-editing, and timed writing practice to prepare for state writing tests (e.g. STAAR, FSA).
Provide weekly interactive creative-writing prompts (narrative, informative, persuasive) for students to answer directly on editable slides, distributable via Google Classroom.
Provides weekly creative-writing prompt slides for students to choose from and respond to, designed for digital use in Google Classroom (editable slides).
Editable interactive slide deck of weekly September writing prompts for creative and reflective/informational writing practice.
Give students a print-and-go creative/reflective writing prompt for each month of the school year, with some months offering an open-ended (no prompt) option.
A short interactive 'micro-learning' slide deck teaching the figurative-language idiom 'beach bum' through a video-style lesson, a reading passage, comprehension checks, and a summary-writing prompt.
Creative-writing worksheet teaching students how to write a structured, informal welcome letter to a new neighbour, modeling letter format, tone, and content ideas.
A standalone set of part-by-part comprehension quizzes and essay writing prompts for the novel 'Inside Out & Back Again' by Thanhha Lai.
A creative-writing resource teaching persuasive travel brochure/leaflet writing, using a model text about Mandelieu la Napoule (France) plus scaffolded prompts and examples for students to write their own persuasive travel pieces.
A creative/non-fiction writing resource teaching students to plan and write a formal letter, using a headteacher-announces-a-change scenario as the writing prompt.