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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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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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.
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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 - 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.
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
8 Picture Writing Prompts & Lesson Plan: Setting, Characters, & Dialog
Teach students to incorporate vivid setting descriptions, character development, and dialogue into creative/narrative writing, using picture-based writing prompts.
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Reading-linked writing
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity - Cursive Writing
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about the history and modern debate over cursive writing, 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 - Fashion Academies
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about what students and teachers experience at fashion academies, 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.
Reading-linked writing
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity - Documentaries
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about the history and styles of documentary filmmaking, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
Reading-linked writing
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity - Fendi - Fashion House
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about the history and identity of the Italian fashion house Fendi, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
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
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity - Endangered Languages
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about language endangerment and efforts to preserve endangered languages, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
Reading-linked writing
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity - Egyptian Mythology
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about ancient Egyptian mythology and its gods and beliefs, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
Reading-linked writing
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity - Duolingo - App
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about the language-learning app Duolingo and its approach to education, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
Stories & imaginative writing
Creative Story Opening Activity
A one-page creative writing prompt sheet giving students several imaginative scenario starters to practice writing story openings.