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Puns for Fun - Making School PUN Again!
A slide deck teaching the concept of puns/wordplay through examples (joke puns, food puns, punnies/comics) and a creative-writing assignment applying puns.
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Signal Template (Editable on Google Slides)
A blank messaging-app (Signal-style) conversation template that lets students write fictional or creative text-message conversations to build communication and creative writing skills.
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Chinatown Skit Project
Have students write and perform a short skit set in Chinatown, practicing creative writing, speaking, and vocabulary in a cooperative or independent project format.
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To Build A Fire by Jack London (Alternate Ending Writing Project)
A creative writing project that has students demonstrate comprehension of Jack London's short story 'To Build a Fire' by identifying a turning point in the plot and writing an alternate ending from that point, using plot-diagram planning and a grading rubric.
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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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End of Year Writing Packet
A countdown-themed (10 to 1) end-of-year writing packet giving students a different reflective or creative writing/drawing prompt for each number.
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Skype Template (Editable on Google Slides)
An editable chat-app template (Skype-style) that lets students compose simulated text-message conversations for creative writing, historical roleplay, or novel-character dialogue.
Editable
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Activity: Stream of Consciousness
A quiz-format writing activity teaching the stream-of-consciousness literary technique by having students link original sentences together.
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WhatsApp Template (Editable on Google Slides)
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).
Editable
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Last Week of School ELA Activities | 8th Grade No-Prep Pack
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.
Answers included
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Houseparty Template (Editable on Google Slides)
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.
Editable
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Lesson Plan on 'The Great Gatsby'
A 90-minute English lesson plan on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby covering themes, characters, symbolism, and the American Dream.
Answers included
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School Times: First Day of School (Worksheet) (Front page)
Give students a creative-writing template to record and report on their first day(s) of school, formatted as a newspaper front page.
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My Alien ID Activity
A creative-writing and drawing activity that has students imagine and describe an alien and its home planet, encouraging imaginative engagement with space themes.
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Create an Original COAT OF ARM / FAMILY CREST
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.
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End-of-Year Activities for Grade 9 (10 hours)
Provide a Grade 9 end-of-year worksheet packet of 9 activities (about 10 hours total) for reflection, creative writing, and a cross-subject review quiz.
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Podcast Promotion Activity
build language arts and creative-writing skills through a real-world simulated task of promoting a podcast episode
Stories & imaginative writing
Dot and Write Creative Activity | Painting or Coloring Autumn Pages
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.
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Last Week of School ELA Activities | 7th Grade No-Prep Pack
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.
Answers included
Reading-linked writing
ESL Novel Study - Leprechaun in Late Winter - Magic Tree House
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.
Stories & imaginative writing
High School The Winter-Spring Dialogue Writing Prompt Bundle
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.
Reading-linked writing
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity - Winter Solstice
Build ESL/EFL reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills using a nonfiction passage about the science and cultural history of the winter solstice.
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2025 April ELA Bell Ringers
Provide daily ELA 'bell ringer' warm-up activities for April covering grammar correction, vocabulary usage, descriptive/creative writing, reflection, and poetry analysis.
Reading-linked writing
ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation"
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.