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Introduce students to narrative poetry as a genre, using video clips, guided discussion, language-device practice, and a full worked example (the poem 'Matilda') plus an independent homework poem.
Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on a camping/vacation adventure, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
A no-prep, summer/end-of-year-themed digital board game (hosted externally as a linked online slide/board, not embedded in the PDF) for reviewing and practicing informative-writing skills, marketed to homeschool/co-op families as well as classroom teachers.
Prompt elementary students to reflect on and write about positive personal character qualities (e.g., kindness, bravery, wisdom, sensitivity), building vocabulary and self-exploration around character traits.
Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on surprises / secrets, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Ready for one of the most versatile extension activities? Let's go! This activity can be used as a warm-up to get students thinking creatively about how they might use various objects to complete a goal. This could be amplified to include a debate in which students discuss why one object is more useful than the other. After working…
Free download Set of writing prompts intended to support and reinforce children's creative story writing.
Free download An SEL resource of journaling and discussion prompts to help students who struggle with anxiety reflect, identify triggers, and build coping strategies, for individual check-ins or group/push-in lessons.
Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on a schoolyard mystery, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
A writing activity that guides students through planning and drafting an informative/explanatory text on a chosen topic.
A 2024 printable calendar (January-December) combined with 12 ESL/EFL listening-and-writing activities based on Harry Potter video clips, one per month.
Introduce young writers to 18 different poetry forms and guide them through writing an original poem in each form, compiled into a personal poetry book.
A year-long, self-directed creative writing activity where students combine a character, setting, and plot (from 13 options each) to write short stories, intended for whole-class writing practice or early finishers.
Online Superhero Game Build-a-Hero Extension Activity The Online Superhero Game Build-a-Hero Extension Activity is a teaching resource suitable for grades 1 to 5, with a particular focus on subjects such as Language Arts, Life Studies, and Specialty Resources in the curriculum . It's an exercise designed to stimulate creativity and…
Post-reading ESL/EFL novel-study worksheet prompting identification of the book's author/genre/publication date, two open list-response activities, an opinion letter to the protagonist, and a character-diary creative writing task.
Provide a comprehensive 26-chapter comprehension, vocabulary, and assessment unit for the novel 'Because of Winn-Dixie' by Kate DiCamillo, including daily worksheets, exit quizzes, a summative test, vocabulary games, and writing/poster prompts.
A creative-writing worksheet teaching narrative story planning (introduction/middle/ending), using a mentor short story about a boy whose new bag is stolen by bullies as the model text.
A multi-step informative-writing unit that walks students through researching sharks and drafting an informative paragraph or essay using structured graphic organizers, opener/conclusion choice cards, and a rubric.
A set of dialogue-writing prompt worksheets that give students a scenario and ask them to write out a full dialogue between characters with proper punctuation and descriptive tags.
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.
A creative writing resource that teaches fiction-writing craft (audience, genre, structure, sentence variety, suspense-building) through direct instruction, a model short story ('The Art Gallery') about a boy who has an eerie encounter with a painting, and a guided prompt to write a follow-up story.
Teach non-fiction/information writing skills (structure, audience, purpose, connectives, varied sentence types) using a fictional dinosaur-discovery news story as the writing prompt.
Post-reading ESL/EFL novel-study worksheet for "Blizzard of the Blue Moon" by Mary Pope Osborne, combining a vocabulary exercise, reflection/comprehension prompts and creative-writing tasks.
A structured SEL journaling curriculum for Grades 3-5 that teaches resilience and growth-mindset skills through guided reflective writing prompts grounded in psychological theory (Dweck's growth mindset, neuroplasticity, Bandura's self-efficacy, Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development).