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Writing Prompt: "New Sled"

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this writing prompt worksheet, students are given a prompt about getting a new sled on a morning when is has snowed 2 feet. Students write a story based on the prompt. 
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Writing Prompt: Parents

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this writing prompt activity, students are given a prompt and write about a time their parents made then do something they didn't want to do. Pages are lined for writing.
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Writing Prompt: Snow Day

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this writing prompt worksheet, students write based on a given prompt about waking up one morning and finding everything covered in snow. Pages are lined for writing.
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Writing Prompt: Important Person

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this writing prompt worksheet, students write a story about a person who is important to them and what the person did that impressed them. Pages are lined for writing.
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Writing Prompt: 1st Day of School

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this writing prompt worksheet, students write a story to a friend about the first day of school, the atmosphere and what impressed them. Pages are lined for writing.
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Writing Prompt: Magic Carpet

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this writing prompt learning exercise, students write a story about an adventure they take, riding a magic carpet to anywhere they choose. 
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Printable Story Starter: The Missing Valentines

For Students 3rd - 4th
A writing prompt about a classroom's missing Valentines allows students to finish the story with their own endings, and to provide their own titles. The lesson comes with a picture and the beginning of the story to full prompt students...
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Writing Worksheet

For Students 1st - 8th
In this writing template worksheet, learners write a rough and final draft of their paragraphs on the lines provided. No writing prompt is given. Grading rubric is present on final draft template.
Assessment
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Bud Not Buddy

For Students 4th Standards
A two-day assessment challenges scholars to read an excerpt from the story, Bud Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis then complete a series of exercises in preparation for a writing assignment. Day one includes an independent...
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February Bell Ringers

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Use a set of 30 writing bell ringers to get through the month of February. Writers tap into and write about how February makes them feel, what it smells like, and all types of celebrations that occur during the month.
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Young Writer's Workshop Writing Prompt Worksheet- Firefighters

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this writer's workshop worksheet, students write an open response to the prompt, "The fire fighter looked up. He saw..." They see a picture of a firefighter looking up into a tree at the top of the page.
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Writing Prompt - Letter to the President

For Students 4th - 5th
In this letter to the president worksheet, students use the letter format that includes the kids address and President Barack Obama's. Students then write a letter to President Obama.
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With Your Friends

For Students 4th - 6th
In this writing response worksheet, students read the question and write a response, an example is provided for them. The question asks what students do with their friends and why.
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Summer Journal Ideas

For Students 2nd - 12th
Twenty prompts, fifteen starters, and ten situations. What more could you ask for from a list of journal ideas?
Worksheet
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"The Old Lamp"

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this writing prompt instructional activity, students read a short scenario about an old lamp being found in the dirt and then finish the story prompt on the lines provided.
Worksheet
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Minutes to Go and Down by Two

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this creative writing instructional activity, students practice their language arts skills as they complete a writing prompt that begins with a team behind with minutes to go in a game.
Worksheet
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Beginning Question Response--Your Favorite Day

For Students 2nd - Higher Ed
While a simple writing prompt, this activity, in which learners write a short essay about their favorite day of the week, could be a good way to cement skills and provide discussion material. This activity could be used in an elementary...
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Writing Bug: Going for the Goal

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this goal setting writing prompt worksheet, students consider a specific goal that they will set for the school year and use the provided space to write about it. Some suggestions for writing ate included.
Worksheet
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Alaska Animals Writing

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this writing prompt worksheet, learners examine pictures of Alaskan animals and then use the space provided to write descriptive sentences about them.
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Writing Lesson 13

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice responding to a writing prompt and practice proofreading. They write three paragraphs explaining good classroom rules and tell why each of three rules is a good one. Each paragraph should have at least three...
Writing
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The Secret Admirer

For Students 3rd - 5th
What happens next? Use a Valentine's Day writing prompt to encourage kids to create a story that identifies the secret admirer who has left a gift on the doorstep. What is the gift and who is it for? 
Lesson Plan
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Create a Book with Student Treasures

For Teachers 1st - 6th
You can't publish a story until after it has been revised and edited! Budding authors investigate the writing process while drafting an original story. They select a topic, complete a rough draft, edit it, revise it, and finally publish...
Assessment
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Quest for Tree Kangaroo

For Students 4th Standards
A three-day assessment challenges scholars to read a passage from an informational text then complete two activities that lead to a writing assignment. Day one and two begin as readers independently read a passage and tag the most...
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Bio Poems Made Easy

For Teachers 1st - 6th
A creative way bring autobiographical writing to your poetry unit or back-to-school curriculum, this lesson plan guides you through a bio poem activity. Kids use the graphic organizer to describe themselves using adjectives, things...

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