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September Daily Journal Prompts: These September journal prompts are the perfect way for students to practice their writing skills while responding to September-themed prompts! With 50 different prompts to choose from, there’s something for everyone. Whether your students are just getting started with journaling or are experienced…
Support a class reading of Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet with activities that revisit comprehension, vocabulary, and written responses. Chapter materials and quizzes give you ways to check understanding as students follow Brian’s experiences. Select from reflection prompts, vocabulary practice, and later assessments to fit your teaching sequence. The existing vocabulary worksheet link offers a separate vocabulary resource alongside this novel unit.
A large collection (101 numbered activities) of creative-writing prompts and exercises covering varied writing forms (sentence completion, poems, unconventional writing tasks, etc.) for upper-elementary/middle-school students.
A single math-journal prompt for exploring experimental vs. theoretical probability of two independent events (rolling a die and flipping a coin).
A Google Slides/PowerPoint deck of 24 flash-fiction creative writing prompts to give students short, timed writing practice, explained with a slide on what flash fiction is and directions for use.
A creative writing prompt worksheet using a science-fiction space travel scenario, combined with research questions about the solar system and space, culminating in a narrative or diary writing task.
Give middle/high school students short, targeted creative writing exercises that isolate and practice five literary devices (Details, Diction, Imagery, Point of View, and Tone) one at a time, building creative writing skills incrementally.
Teach students to incorporate vivid setting descriptions, character development, and dialogue into creative/narrative writing, using picture-based writing 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 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.
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 5-6 students through narrative, poetry, and persuasive/commercial writing forms.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A creative writing resource that models story-opening techniques with a jungle-themed mentor text, prompting students to write their own animal adventure story.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A creative-writing worksheet set where students write lyrics or a poem describing what it feels like to experience each of 11 specific emotions.
A movie-study resource built around Disney's Lilo & Stitch (2002), teaching reading comprehension, vocabulary, character/theme analysis, data reading, and creative writing tied to the film.