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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 back-to-school 'All About Me' creative art packet where students share personal information and preferences through drawing, coloring, and writing prompts.
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.
A single math-journal prompt for exploring experimental vs. theoretical probability of two independent events (rolling a die and flipping a coin).
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 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.
Provides 125 open-ended math journal prompts (one per page) across five math strands to promote written explanation of mathematical thinking, differentiation, and use as fast-finisher/enrichment activities, aligned to grade 3-4 Common Core standards.
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 magic-potions-and-spells themed creative writing activity where students design a magic potion or spell using assigned 'magic power' traits, then write about it using a graphic organizer and are assessed with a rubric.
Provide a creative-writing activity where students invent a magic potion or spell to solve an assigned obstacle.
creative writing unit using historical-women character cards and a SWBST (somebody-wants-but-so-then) graphic organizer, for Women's History Month
A creative-writing unit using cards naming US First Ladies as character prompts, for Women's History Month.
A creative-writing activity using a 'wanted poster' format to have students describe the villain (Big Bad Wolf) from Three Little Pigs.
Provides a low-prep, reusable creative-writing framework using the 'Somebody Wants But So Then' (SWBST) story structure, themed around zoo animal character cards.
Digital art and creative writing activity where students design a burger and write a persuasive/descriptive advertisement-style paragraph about it.
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 5-6 students through narrative, poetry, and persuasive/commercial writing forms.
Creative-writing activity in which students role-play as paparazzi who 'spot' each Goldilocks character and report details about them.
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 3-4 students through the writing process.
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.
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 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 4-5 students through character development, descriptive writing, poetry, and imaginative writing techniques.
A creative writing activity that reframes the Hansel and Gretel story in a modern tabloid/paparazzi context to prompt imaginative narrative writing.
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 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.