Cookie Jar Creative Writing Activity
A simple class-book creative writing/drawing activity built around the "Who Stole the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?" rhyme/chant, letting each student contribute a page naming who stole the cookies.
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ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on "Rogue One" - Star Wars
A post-viewing ESL/EFL worksheet built around the film "Rogue One - A Star Wars Story", combining film-info recall, vocabulary logging, and reflective/creative writing tasks.
ESL Reading Comprehension + Essay - Forest of Piano - Anime & Manga
Give ESL/EFL students at middle and high school level a nonfiction reading passage about the Japanese anime/manga 'Forest of the Piano' (Forest of the Piano), its story and characters, paired with comprehension, vocabulary, and true/false argument questions and personal or comparative essay writing prompts.
Creative Writing Prompts Grade 3 | An Exciting Journey
Gives 3rd-grade students eight themed creative-writing prompts (theme: An Exciting Journey) 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.
Three Little Pigs Writing Prompts
A set of writing-prompt templates based on 'The Three Little Pigs' folktale, encouraging perspective-taking and opinion/persuasive writing.
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Grade 1 Yearlong Reading Comprehension Curriculum | 36 Worksheets
36-week yearlong Grade 1 reading comprehension curriculum with weekly passages, vocabulary, comprehension questions, and writing prompts.
Answers included
ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on "Solo: A Star Wars Story"
A post-viewing ESL/EFL worksheet built around the film "Solo: A Star Wars Story", combining film-info recall, vocabulary logging, and reflective/creative writing tasks.
Today in History - Louis Braille is Born - January 4, 1809
Reading/writing packet teaching the historical fact that Louis Braille, inventor of the braille reading/writing system, was born on January 4, 1809.
Twelfth Night Act 3, Scene 4 | Double Entry Journals
A double-entry journal worksheet for Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Act 3 Scene 4, that has students use textual evidence to identify relationships, power dynamics, and dramatic irony, including an explicit definition of dramatic irony and verbal irony.
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Creative Writing Prompts Grade 3 | A Day On Another Planet
Gives 3rd-grade students eight themed creative-writing prompts (theme: A Day On Another Planet) 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.
Creative Writing Workshop: "Show. Don't Tell" Mini Lesson
A mini-lesson/workshop teaching secondary students the 'show, don't tell' writing principle, using a slideshow contrasting telling sentences with showing paragraphs, then having students turn a randomly-drawn telling sentence into a descriptive showing paragraph.
ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on "Return to Never Land" - Peter Pan
A post-viewing ESL/EFL worksheet built around the film "Return to Never Land (Peter Pan)", combining film-info recall, vocabulary logging, character description, and reflective/creative writing tasks.
ESL Reading + Writing Activity Worksheet - Artificial Intelligence
Give secondary-level ESL/EFL students reading-comprehension and writing practice using a short nonfiction passage about artificial intelligence and automation in daily life.
Much Ado About Nothing Act 4, Scenes 1-2 | Double Entry Journals
A double-entry journal worksheet for close reading of Act 4, Scenes 1-2 of Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing,' focused on using textual evidence to identify character relationships, power dynamics, and dramatic irony at the play's climax.
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Grade 9 Financial Literacy Reading Comprehension | 180 Daily Passages
A year-long Grade 9 financial literacy curriculum combining daily nonfiction reading passages with personal-finance concepts to build reading comprehension, vocabulary, and analytical writing.
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Creative Writing Prompts Grade 3 | Adventure in the Mountains
Gives 3rd-grade students eight themed creative-writing prompts (theme: Adventure in the Mountains) 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.
Writing Prompt + Discussion Flashcards: Meals/Diet Pack
Writing Prompt + Discussion Flashcards : Meals/Diet Pack The Writing Prompt + Discussion Flashcards: Meals/Diet Pack equips educators with an engaging teaching resource designed to boost discussion abilities and writing skills. This tool can be adapted for all education stages, encompassing a range of pictures themed around diet and…
ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on "Pride and Prejudice" - Jane Austen
A post-viewing ESL/EFL worksheet built around the film "Pride and Prejudice", combining film-info recall, vocabulary logging, character description, and reflective/creative writing tasks.
ESL Reading Comprehension + Essay - Carnival around the World
Give ESL/EFL students at middle and high school level a nonfiction reading passage about how Carnival is celebrated in different countries/cities (e.g. Cologne, Nice's Bataille de Fleurs, Quebec Winter Carnival), paired with comprehension, vocabulary, and true/false argument questions and personal or comparative essay writing prompts.
A Rainy Day Adventure - Writing Prompt
The rainy-spring-day question leaves the adventure open for students to invent. Discuss a setting and an action before writing, then use the companion drawing page to show the same scene. Students who need an idea can begin with a sketch and describe it orally before composing their response.
Twelfth Night Act 2, Scenes 4-5 | Double Entry Journals
A double-entry journal worksheet for Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Act 2 Scenes 4-5, that has students use textual evidence to identify relationships, power dynamics, and dramatic irony, including an explicit definition of dramatic irony and a staging/argumentative prompt about whether to cut a scene.
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Creative Writing Prompts Grade 3 | Animals at the Zoo
Gives 3rd-grade students eight themed creative-writing prompts (theme: Animals at the Zoo) 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.
I’ve Grown This-Year - End of Year Writing Prompt
An end-of-year writing and drawing prompt for young students to reflect on personal growth over the school year.
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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