Hangouts Template (Editable on Google Slides)
Give students an editable, familiar phone-messaging-app template to write out conversations for a creative writing or comprehension activity.
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Give students an editable, familiar phone-messaging-app template to write out conversations for a creative writing or comprehension activity.
A creative-writing/social-studies activity where students design a personal coat of arms/family crest using heraldic symbolism to represent their own personality, values, and interests.
A countdown-themed (10 to 1) end-of-year writing packet giving students a different reflective or creative writing/drawing prompt for each number.
An editable chat-app template (Skype-style) that lets students compose simulated text-message conversations for creative writing, historical roleplay, or novel-character dialogue.
build language arts and creative-writing skills through a real-world simulated task of promoting a podcast episode
An editable messaging-app mockup template that students use to write out fictional or role-play conversations (e.g. between novel characters, historical figures, or a creative writing scenario).
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.).
A Google Slides template styled after the Houseparty video-chat app, letting students design and fill in a mock video-chat conversation for a creative-writing or role-play activity.
A no-prep, 5-day Grade 7 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 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 90-minute English lesson plan on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby covering themes, characters, symbolism, and the American Dream.
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.
Biography research and creative-writing project in which students build an imagined social-media profile for a historical scientist or inventor.
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 8 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.
Autumn-themed 'dot and write' activity pages combining coloring/painting (dotting an image with a q-tip or paint) with a short writing prompt about the picture, for fine motor and creative practice.
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.
Post-reading ESL/EFL novel-study worksheet for a Magic Tree House book, prompting setting identification, two open list-response activities, a postcard-writing prompt from the story's adventure, and an alternate-ending essay.
A short set of open-ended summer-themed creative writing prompts.
A high-school reflective/personal-narrative writing prompt set themed around winter-to-spring seasonal metaphors for growth and resilience, with supporting note-taking sheets and a grading rubric.
Build ESL/EFL reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills using a nonfiction passage about the science and cultural history of the winter solstice.
A cross-curricular unit teaching students about the International Space Station (ISS) through an informational reading passage, combined with reading comprehension, creative writing, vocabulary (Greek word roots), math, and geography activities.
Post-viewing ESL/EFL comprehension and creative-writing worksheet built around the film "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation", combining basic film-info recall, a vocabulary log, character description, reflection prompts, and a character-diary writing task for English language learners.
Provide daily ELA 'bell ringer' warm-up activities for April covering grammar correction, vocabulary usage, descriptive/creative writing, reflection, and poetry analysis.