Stories & imaginative writing
Fun Writing Activities: Creative Writing Prompts
Generate creative writing prompts by having students roll a die to randomly select a character, setting, and problem for a story.
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8th Grade Writing Prompts
Help eighth graders develop ideas into engaging, organized writing. Choose creative starters, personal reflection and opinion prompts, or connect a response to a text your class is studying.
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Stories & imaginative writing
Using Adjectives in Creative Writing Activity
A single-page creative writing prompt asking students to use adjectives to vividly describe a humorous illustrated scene.
Stories & imaginative writing
Narrative Writing Story Starters Beginnings Sizzling Starts
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.
Stories & imaginative writing
Imagine You Can Travel Through Space: Write A Story (9-13 years)
A creative writing prompt worksheet using a science-fiction space travel scenario, combined with research questions about the solar system and space, culminating in a narrative or diary writing task.
Stories & imaginative writing
24 Creative Writing Prompts to Inspire Your Students
Google Slideshow of 24 creative writing prompts to inspire student writing across genres and moods, with an elements-of-fiction mini-lesson.
Stories & imaginative writing
Literary Devices Creative Writing Prompts
Give middle/high school students short, targeted creative writing exercises that isolate and practice five literary devices (Details, Diction, Imagery, Point of View, and Tone) one at a time, building creative writing skills incrementally.
Stories & imaginative writing
Flash Fiction: 24 Creative Writing Prompts for Students
A Google Slides/PowerPoint deck of 24 flash-fiction creative writing prompts to give students short, timed writing practice, explained with a slide on what flash fiction is and directions for use.
Stories & imaginative writing
14 Random Writing Prompts: Character, Situation, Prop, Setting, Phrase
A Google Slides-based set of 14 creative-writing prompts, each combining a character, situation, prop, setting, and phrase, to inspire short stories and flash fiction across genres (realistic fiction, fantasy, science fiction, mystery).
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Journal Prompts For Upper Elementary Students with Depression-- Check-In
A set of journaling check-in prompts for upper-elementary/middle-school students dealing with depression, for use as an individual check-in, exit ticket, or discussion piece, or cut apart as headings for an interactive notebook.
Reading-linked writing
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity - Dream Bedroom
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about students' views on their bedrooms and designing a dream bedroom, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
Reading-linked writing
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity - Favourite Teachers
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about what makes a favourite/memorable teacher, based on student interviews, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
Stories & imaginative writing
Narrative Writing Picture Prompts To Inspire Your Students' Stories
A set of 15 picture-based narrative writing prompts to inspire student story writing.
Reading-linked writing
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity - Dinosaurs Park
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about dinosaur theme parks and their educational and entertainment role, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
Stories & imaginative writing
Anglo-Saxon Story Activity
A creative writing prompt sheet that gives students Anglo-Saxon themed vocabulary to build an original story.
Journals & personal reflection
Life Lessons Reflection Journal Professional Edition
A 42-page reflective journal/workbook for adults (adaptable for high-school/college age) that provides structured lessons and writing prompts for building emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and high-performance personal habits.
Journals & personal reflection
My Diary Entry Activity
A one-page creative writing prompt asking students to imagine and describe a day in their life set in a different century.
Reading-linked writing
Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scenes 4-5 | Double Entry Journals
Provides double-entry journal prompts and summary/analysis questions for Act 1, Scenes 4 and 5 of Romeo and Juliet.
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Reading-linked writing
The Graveyard Book Novel Study Chapter Quizzes & Writing Activities
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.
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Stories & imaginative writing
Narrative Sub Plans Prompts (Print & Pass)
Ready-made substitute-teacher plans built around narrative writing prompts, for use when the regular teacher is absent.
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Stories & imaginative writing
World History Writing Prompt Bundle
A writing-prompt bundle that has students research a historical event and reflect on it through writing, supported by a writing-hacks cheatsheet and proofreading checklist.
Reading-linked writing
Romeo and Juliet Act 3, Scene 1 | Double Entry Journals
Provides double-entry journal prompts and analysis questions for Act 3, Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet, the scene in which Tybalt is killed and Romeo is banished.
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Stories & imaginative writing
Creative Writing Prompt - Create Your Own Monster
A creative-writing prompt that has students invent an original monster character (with a drawing and fact sheet) and then write a graded short story featuring that monster.
Reading-linked writing
Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scenes 1-2 | Double Entry Journals
Provides double-entry journal prompts and summary/analysis questions for Act 2, Scenes 1 and 2 of Romeo and Juliet.
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Journals & personal reflection
Year Long Weekly Writing Prompt Journal
A year-long weekly writing journal that gives students recurring writing prompts across five categories (argumentative, narrative, explanatory, current events/critical thinking) to build writing skills over a school year.
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