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Three Little Pigs | Character Wanted Creative Writing
A creative-writing activity using a 'wanted poster' format to have students describe the villain (Big Bad Wolf) from Three Little Pigs.
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Zoo Animals Endless Creative Writing Prompts
Provides a low-prep, reusable creative-writing framework using the 'Somebody Wants But So Then' (SWBST) story structure, themed around zoo animal character cards.
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Digital Art & Creative Writing Activity: Build a Burger
Digital art and creative writing activity where students design a burger and write a persuasive/descriptive advertisement-style paragraph about it.
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Creative Writing Gr 5-6
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 5-6 students through narrative, poetry, and persuasive/commercial writing forms.
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears | Paparazzi News | Creative Writing
Creative-writing activity in which students role-play as paparazzi who 'spot' each Goldilocks character and report details about them.
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Creative Writing Gr 3-4
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 3-4 students through the writing process.
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Three Little Pigs | Paparazzi News | Creative Writing
A creative writing activity in which students imagine themselves as paparazzi who spotted the Wolf and the Pig, and record descriptive details about the sighting.
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Getting Kids to Write!: A Natural Approach to Creative Writing
A 114-page reproducible creative-writing book presenting an informal, personal-experience-based approach to teaching writing, with a large collection of open-ended writing topic activities.
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Creative Writing Gr 4-5
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 4-5 students through character development, descriptive writing, poetry, and imaginative writing techniques.
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Hansel and Gretel | Paparazzi News | Creative Writing
A creative writing activity that reframes the Hansel and Gretel story in a modern tabloid/paparazzi context to prompt imaginative narrative writing.
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Creative Writing Gr 6-8
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 6-8 students through journal writing, poetry forms, characterization, and narrative/problem-solving writing.
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Budding Poets: A Beginner's Guide to Verse and Rhyme
A 112-page guide teaching poetic devices and forms (alliteration, hyperbole, metaphor, personification, concrete poetry, couplets, etc.) through explanation and writing activities, aligned to Common Core writing standards.
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Roll a Story | Creative Writing | Narrative Genre | Quick Activity | No Prep
A creative-writing activity where students roll a die three times to select a character, setting, and problem, then plan and write their own story, optionally inspired by an included short story ('Three Free Wishes').
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Dr. Seuss Creative Writing Worksheet
Prompt descriptive/creative writing inspired by If I Ran the Zoo.
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'Flora & Ulysses' Lesson Plan & Worksheets | Grades 4 - 8
A movie-study lesson plan/worksheet packet for the film Flora & Ulysses (2021), with 30 activities building reading comprehension, vocabulary, character analysis, theme analysis, data/graph interpretation, and creative writing skills.
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Storyboard Creative Writing Planning Guide
A step-by-step storyboard planning guide, available as both printable and interactive Google Slides, that teaches students to plan a creative narrative by identifying its plot, setting, characters, conflict, and theme.
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Little Red Riding Hood | Paparazzi News | Creative Writing
A creative writing/role-play activity where students act as paparazzi reporting on characters from Little Red Riding Hood.
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Journey Into The Deepest, Darkest Jungle: Write A Story (9-13 years)
A creative writing resource that models story-opening techniques with a jungle-themed mentor text, prompting students to write their own animal adventure story.
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The Character Builder & Story Builder Activity
Give students a MASH-style (fold-and-predict/spiral counting) creative writing game to randomly generate character traits and story elements for use in creative writing.
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The Day I Met A Dinosaur: Write The Story (9-13 years)
A creative-writing resource teaching narrative structure (introduction, middle, ending) through planning prompts, a fully written model story about meeting a dinosaur at a museum, and space for students to write their own version.
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Imagine You Find A Mysterious Box In the Attic: Write A Diary (9-13 years)
A creative writing worksheet that prompts students to imagine finding a mysterious box in an attic, then write a diary entry, using a provided sample diary (about a family's stressful moving day) as a model.
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The Closing Down Sale: Write A Story (9-13 years)
A creative-writing teaching resource that first reviews fiction-writing techniques (audience, genre, structure, dialogue, sentence variety) and then guides students through planning and writing an original story using a given character/setting/plot outline about a boy named Frank at a computer-game sale.
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A Strange Meeting: Complete The Story (9-13 years)
A creative-writing resource in which students read the opening of a story ('A Strange Meeting') about a boy transported into a Monet painting, write their own ending, compare it to a model ending, then use provided biographical facts about Claude Monet to write an information leaflet about the artist.
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The Present: Write A Description (And More) (9-13 years)
A creative-writing tutorial teaching students aged 9-13 to write a descriptive narrative about receiving and opening a present, using sensory detail and figurative language.