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2025 January ELA Bell Ringers
A month's worth of daily ELA "bell ringer" warm-up writing prompts for January 2025, for middle and high school ELA classrooms.
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‘Pom Pom At The Obedience Class’: A Fun Writing And Drawing Activity (4 years +)
A vocabulary and creative-writing activity set at a dog obedience class, contrasting a well-behaved dog with several other dogs (including a repeatedly 'naughty dog') across a set of training exercises.
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‘Pom Pom At The Vet’: A Fun Writing And Drawing Activity (4 years +)
A vocabulary, sequencing, and creative-writing activity set at a veterinary clinic, including a simple money/addition exercise using a mock invoice.
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2025 March ELA Bell Ringers
A month's worth of daily ELA "bell ringer" warm-up writing prompts for March 2025, for middle and high school ELA classrooms, spring/Women's History Month-themed.
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‘Pom Pom At The Street Party’: A Fun Writing And Drawing Activity (4 + years)
A vocabulary and creative-writing activity set at a neighborhood street party, including invitation writing, a word search, and a social-emotional narrative about welcoming an excluded dog.
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Animal Visual Writing Prompts | Photo Ideas | Writing Project
A set of photo-based visual writing prompts using animal photographs to inspire open-ended creative, descriptive, or expository student writing.
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2025 June ELA Bell Ringers
A month's worth of daily ELA "bell ringer" warm-up writing prompts for June 2025, for middle and high school ELA classrooms, summer-themed.
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‘The Naughty Dogs Naughtiest Day’: A Fun Writing And Drawing Activity (6 years +)
Provide a narrative-based writing and drawing activity (following a misbehaving dog character through a chaotic day) to build creative writing, vocabulary, and drawing skills.
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Design A Pair Of Space Age Trainers (9-13 years)
A creative-writing worksheet using a sci-fi 'space age' theme to teach students to write varied sentence types (simple, compound, complex) and short persuasive/advert-style copy.
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American Tall Tales | The Legendary Annie Oakley
A tall-tale literacy unit teaching students about the genre of tall tales and the legend of Annie Oakley, combining a read-aloud illustrated story, informational facts about the real historical figure, comprehension questions, and creative writing practice.
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‘Pom Pom Has A Visitor’ A Fun Writing And Drawing Activity (4 years +)
A vocabulary and creative-writing activity about hosting a visiting dog (the 'naughty dog') for a weekend stay, covering routines, misbehavior, and eventual good behavior.
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If I Were a Teacher - Writing Prompt
Two-page creative writing/drawing prompt set asking students to imagine being a teacher: one page prompts a written response about what they would teach and what activities they would do, the other prompts a drawing of themselves as a teacher in their classroom.
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Art Fun Add It! Drawing and Writing Prompts
Build creative drawing and writing skills through themed 'Add It!' prompts that ask students to draw a list of specific items into one scene, then write about it.
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Waking up the Joys of Writing - Activity Book
A creative-writing activity book that gives students ten 'flat' (bare, low-detail) sentences and has them rewrite each one repeatedly over a five-day cycle, adding detail and changing tone/mood, to build comfort and fluency with descriptive writing.
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Island Treasure Hunt Writing Activity | Problem Solving and Adventure
Creative writing activity using a treasure-hunt adventure theme to help students plan and write a narrative story with character, setting, problem, and solution elements, plus self-editing practice.
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Writing Activities for Park Lane School Presents The Wizard of Oz (6-10 years)
A set of creative-writing and reflection prompts that follow the chapters of the companion story 'Park Lane School Presents... The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', letting children explore their own experiences and feelings alongside the story's events.
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Persuade People To Buy A Computer Game (9-13 years)
A creative/persuasive writing activity where students write a TV advertisement to convince buyers to purchase a fictional computer game.
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AWAKENING CREATIVITY in the English – Language Arts classroom Part 3
A collection of generic creative-writing/response activities designed to be paired with any text students are reading, to stimulate creative thinking in ELA class.
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Three Little Pigs | Official Police Statement | If I Were... Writing
A creative writing activity where students compare the pig's and wolf's versions of the Three Little Pigs story and write an official police statement from the point of view they believe.
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‘Pom Pom At The Beach’: A Fun Writing And Drawing Activity (4 years +)
A vocabulary and creative-writing activity set at the beach, including an environmental-awareness segment on the danger of ocean plastic pollution to wildlife, and a sequenced narrative-writing exercise about a beach day.
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‘Pom Pom Goes On Holiday’ A Fun Writing And Drawing Activity (6 years +)
A vocabulary and creative-writing activity about going on holiday (vacation) with a dog, covering transportation vocabulary, packing, and diary writing, modeled on a sample diary entry from the 'naughty dog' character.
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‘Pom Pom And Her Buddy’: A Fun Writing And Drawing Activity (6 years +)
A narrative-based vocabulary and creative-writing activity in which the well-behaved dog character 'Pom Pom' is bitten by another dog and chooses to walk away and become friends with a formerly troublesome dog rather than seek revenge.
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End of the Year Social Media Activities
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.).
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Milliken's Complete Book of Reading and Writing Reproducibles - Grades 3-4: Over 110 Activities for Today's Differentiated Classroom
Reproducible reading and writing practice worksheets for grades 3-4, covering reading comprehension, homophones/homographs, and writing skills.
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