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Story About a Picture
In this story prompt worksheet, students analyze a picture of a polka dotted airplane with the faces of five children at the windows. Students write a story about the picture.
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Writing Potions
In this creative writing worksheet, students use the prompt to write a creative short story. Students write about their experiences after drinking an invisibility potion.
California Education Partners
Women
Alice Walker's poem "Women" provides ninth graders the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to identify how a writer's choice of syntax and diction contribute to the development of the theme of the work.
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Marc Chagall
For this language arts worksheet, students are asked to draw a picture from their imagination. They are then to synthesize writing about their picture and write on the lines provided.
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Paul Gauguin
In this language arts instructional activity, students read a story starter, write a story and illustrate it. The topic is where students would like to live if they could live anywhere.
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Magic Seeds
In this Language Arts learning exercise, students color in a picture of flowerpot. Students also write a story or description about the illustration.
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My Hiding Place
In this writing worksheet, students read a story starter that asks if they have a special hiding place. Students write the story and illustrate it.
National Constitution Center
Born in the U.S.A: Music as Political Protest
Though often used in shows of patriotism, Bruce Springsteen's 1985 song "Born in the U.S.A." is critical of America's role in the Vietnam war and its treatment of American veterans. High schoolers analyze the song's lyrics in an activity...
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Understanding Protagonists and Antagonists
How can you tell if a character is a villain? What about a hero? Work on literary analysis with an engaging language arts worksheet. After completing an activity about the four types of conflict, learners fill out a character map about a...
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Starting Something New
Students write a short composition about learning something new that is hard to do after reviewing the nouns, verbs, prepositions, adjectives, and conjunctions in a picture-word bank.
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Penguin, Penguin
In this language arts worksheet, students examine a picture and read about mother and father penguins who help their babies. Students write about a time 2 special people have helped them.
Bully Free Systems
Bully Free Lesson Plans—Eighth Grade
Middle schoolers are likely very familiar with the concept of bullying and cliques. Discuss their experiences and brainstorm ways to handle peer conflict and feelings of exclusion with a poem that focuses on bullying, and a second lesson...
Brownsville Independent School District
Moral Courage
What does a morally courageous person look like? Discuss principles, peer pressure, and solving problems without violence in a worksheet about moral courage, and the ways you can be a hero to the people around you.
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The Monster Match
In this creative writing worksheet, learners read the story starter and then use their imagination to craft their own middle and end to complete the story.
Waunakee Community School District
Identifying Themes in Literature
If your language arts learners have a hard time determining the universal theme of a written work, use a straightforward instructional activity to help them find it. After reviewing a list of common themes, kids note the title,...
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Let's Make a Snowman
In this literacy worksheet, learners practice writing their own story with the help of the picture dictionary and matching them to the new story.
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Dream Beach
In this language arts activity, students write a story about a dream beach. Students use the illustrated word banks provided for each story.
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Identify Narrative Perspective 3
In this point of view worksheet, students read passages and then write the narrator's point of view and how they know it is such. Students do this for 6 passages.
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Making a Candy House
In this writing worksheet, scholars use a word bank that includes naming, connecting, and describing words to write about how they would build a candy house.
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It's the 100th day of school!
In this 100th day of school worksheet, students write about if they could have 100 of anything, what would it be. Students also describe how the world will look in 100 years.
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The Planet Pollutonia
In this prompt writing learning exercise, students use the prompt about a planet full of pollution. Students are elected president of the planet and must come up with several ways to solve the pollution problems.
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Time Machine
In this creative writing worksheet, students use the prompt about a time machine to write a creative short story about that prompt.
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The Door Guard
In this creative writing worksheet, students use the prompt about a noise behind a castle door to write a creative short story.
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Millions of Footprints
In this creative writing learning exercise, students use the prompt about millions of footprints to write a short story. The objective is to enhance students' writing skills.