ESL Novel Study - Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot - Jeff Kinney
Post-reading ESL/EFL novel-study worksheet for "Big Shot" by Jeff Kinney, combining a vocabulary exercise, reflection/comprehension prompts and creative-writing tasks.
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Post-reading ESL/EFL novel-study worksheet for "Big Shot" by Jeff Kinney, combining a vocabulary exercise, reflection/comprehension prompts and creative-writing tasks.
Gives 3rd-grade students eight themed creative-writing prompts (theme: An Animal Discovers a Secret World) with sentence starters, guiding questions, and word banks so they can organize a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end, develop their own ideas, and build writing confidence.
Post-reading ESL/EFL novel-study worksheet for "Diper Överlöde" by Jeff Kinney, combining a vocabulary exercise, reflection/comprehension prompts and creative-writing tasks.
Gives 3rd-grade students eight themed creative-writing prompts (theme: My New Friend) with sentence starters, guiding questions, and word banks so they can organize a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end, develop their own ideas, and build writing confidence.
Post-reading ESL/EFL novel-study worksheet for "Hot Mess" by Jeff Kinney, combining a vocabulary exercise, reflection/comprehension prompts and creative-writing tasks.
Reinforce vocabulary, reading comprehension, and creative-writing skills using story-setting terms (stadium crowd, cottage in the woods, city, castle, beach, campsite, treehouse, circus) that students can use when writing narratives.
Post-reading ESL/EFL novel-study worksheet for "The Ugly Truth" by Jeff Kinney, combining a vocabulary exercise, reflection/comprehension prompts and creative-writing tasks.
Reinforce vocabulary, reading comprehension, and creative-writing skills using a second set of story-setting terms (jail, forest, desert, haunted house, railway bridge, ocean, party, space) that students can use when writing narratives.
Post-reading ESL/EFL novel-study worksheet for "The Long Haul" by Jeff Kinney, combining a vocabulary exercise, reflection/comprehension prompts and creative-writing tasks.
A movie-study companion built around the 2021 Netflix film 'Yes Day,' combining ELA, math/data, and SEL activities across a 30-activity student worksheet, a teacher's guide, and an answer key.
A post-reading ESL/EFL novel-study worksheet set for the Magic Tree House book "Hurry Up Houdini!" by Mary Pope Osborne, giving students structured setting-identification, vocabulary, and creative-writing tasks.
A cross-curricular movie-study lesson pack built around Disney's 'Big Hero 6' (2014), combining English/grammar, STEM (scientific method, engineering design process, tech ethics), math/data, reading/theme analysis, and social-emotional learning.
A post-reading ESL/EFL novel-study worksheet set for the Magic Tree House book "High Time for Heroes" by Mary Pope Osborne, giving students structured setting-identification, vocabulary, and creative-writing tasks.
A movie-study resource built around Pixar's Inside Out 2 (2024) combining social-emotional learning with literacy, grammar, and math practice for grades 3-10.
A post-reading ESL/EFL novel-study worksheet set for the Magic Tree House book "Dragon of the Red Dawn" by Mary Pope Osborne, giving students structured setting-identification, vocabulary, and creative-writing tasks.
Post-reading ESL/EFL novel-study worksheet for "Calling All Creeps!" by R.L. Stine, combining a vocabulary exercise, reflection/comprehension prompts and creative-writing tasks.
A 28-page poetry writing booklet ('My Little Poetry Book') offering students a series of templated poem/writing frames on varied topics to practice creative writing.
Provide open-ended visual/photo writing prompts (animal photos) to inspire creative descriptive or narrative student writing.
A set of 32 daily writing prompt cards to give students a ready supply of creative-writing topics, for use as a writing station, journal starter, or early-finisher activity.
A single creative-writing prompt exercise about finding a tiny magical dragon in a lunchbox.
A creative-writing task pack that uses a fantasy narrative (shrinking into a cupcake and discovering an underwater/mermaid world) as a model text, paired with vocabulary building and multiple guided writing prompts for ages 9-13.
A two-part creative writing and drawing prompt in which students invent an original eco-hero character ('Captain Planet Jr.') and write about an adventure saving the Earth, then draw the character in action.
One creative writing prompt asking students to imagine their pet can talk and write a short story about the adventure that follows.
A month's worth of daily ELA "bell ringer" warm-up writing prompts for January 2025, for middle and high school ELA classrooms.