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Halloween Poem And Story Book Covers And Writing Paper

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this Halloween writing worksheet, students use the cover sheet and decorated lined paper to write poems and stories of their own. Students may staple the pages into a book.
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Understanding Story Elements-Who, What, Where

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a rap using story details.  In this creative writing lesson, students examine the use of rap lyrics to list important details of stories.  They view a video example, and use their notes to create their own raps...
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Writing Prompt: Grown Up

For Students 4th - 5th
In this creative writing worksheet, students read a prompt and write a 3 page story based on the prompt. The prompt instructs students to consider the situation of waking up one morning as a grown up. Students must write about their day...
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Character Builder

For Students 5th - 12th Standards
Characters in a story are more than a name to remember. Use a character builder worksheet to write out a character's appearance, background, personality, attributes, and story relevance, including whether they are a main or minor...
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Are You My Little Peanut?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the mass and length of peanuts by pretending to parent a peanut. In this mode, median and range lesson students graph their measurements and then use them to find the mode, median and range. Students discuss peanut...
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Writing Mythological Narratives

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students compose a creative writing piece based on a painting of a mythological scene. In this creative writing lesson,  students write about the scene in the painting and tie in  their original stories into tales from the life...
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It's a Secret! Writing Prompt

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students write the ending to <i>It's a Secret</i> by John Burningham.  In this creative writing activity, students are read the first two pages of <i>It's a Secret</i> and they continue writing what they...
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Picture Books, Retelling, and Writing

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students create stories using only pictures.  In this visual storytelling lesson, students read Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie de Paola and analyze the wordless story.  Students create new text for the book by writing on...
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American Civil Rights Movement, Photo Essay

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students view photographs from the Civil Rights Movement and write an essay from the point of view of someone in the photograph. They artistically represent various aspects of the Movement.
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Writing Novelettes

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice their writing techniques by creating a novelette.  For this creating writing lesson, students brainstorm and decide on a topic they would like to expand upon in order to create their own novelette.  Students...
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The Apprentice: A Study of Business and Technical Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore business practices by creating a portfolio in class. In this business writing lesson, students identify the causes for a businesses success and failure before deciding on a business they would like to create. Students...
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Short Story Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop skills needed to write short stories. They pick out an object in the room and describe it without saying what it is. They describe their hand and the lines on their hand without using words "Line, finger,skin or vein"
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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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Humorous Story Featuring Clowns

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write stories that feature funny clowns. In this creative writing lesson, students follow the outline for a story in order to write their own humorous story set at a circus.
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A Noise in the Night-- Story Starter

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, pupils read a scary story starter about hearing a noise in the night. Students write the story on the lines provided.
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Story Prompt: Man Carving Letters Out of Stone

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this story prompt learning exercise, learners write two short stories about the pictures of men carving the letters X and A out of stone.
Writing
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Creative Writing - Picture Prompt

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this creative writing worksheet, students examine a black line picture of a child picking flowers in a meadow with at bear cub looking out from a behind a tree. They write a story based on what they see in the picture.
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Story About a Picture

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this story prompt instructional activity, learners 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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Frogs in a Pond: Story Writing

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this story writing worksheet, students analyze a picture of two frogs in a pond. Students write a story about the picture. Students make up a title for the story.
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What Would You Look Like if You Were a Clown?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts worksheet, students write a creative story about what they might look like if they were a clown. Students are encouraged to use many descriptive words. Students then draw a picture to match their description.
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Spooky Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Focus on building suspense as well as evaluating web sites through creative writing. After introducing the idea of suspense and holding a discussion, class members complete a WebQuest, during which they find inspiration for their own...
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Telling Stories: Symbols of a Life

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Art and literature can go hand in hand, they both are used to express elements of the self in a creative and interesting way. Budding story tellers interpret and analyze the narrative elements they find in a work of art. They focus on...
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Cogheart and Moonlocket

For Students 6th - 10th Standards
Peter Bunzi takes readers to the Victorian era with two stories, Coghaert and Moonlocket. Accompany the literary time warp with a companion packet that offers a plethora of exercises. Learning...
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November Bell Ringers

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
All things November in a set of 32 bell ringer ideas to get you through the month. From writing about November to writing about colors and feelings in fall, these bell ringers are fun and allow creative writing practice.

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