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T-shirt With Primary Writing Lines

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this writing worksheet, students use the T-shirt shape with blank primary lines for any creative writing purpose. This lined paper matches the blank T-shirt on another page which could be used as part of a shape book.
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Creative Writing Paper

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this creative writing worksheet, students write a story about the clip art picture of a green alien in a space vehicle which is pictured at the top of the page. They concentrate on including adjectives to make the story as interesting...
Writing
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Creative Writing - Why Is a Squirrel Hiding in a Tree Stump?

For Students 3rd
In this creative writing worksheet, students write an essay telling why a squirrel is hiding in a hollow tree stump. They explain why the squirrel does not want anyone to know where he is.
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Writing and Podcasting

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students make a podcast of the stories they have written. In this writing lesson plan, students create creative writing stories based on pictures they receive and then put them into a podcast.
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Creative Writing Idea Sheet

For Students 1st - 4th
In this creative writing ideas worksheet, students create their own stories as they use the setting, character, and objects listed on the worksheet to fuel their ideas.
Writing
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Narrative Paragraph: What Happens To The Cookie?

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this creative writing worksheet, students use the theme, "What happens to the cookie?", to write a brief story using the questions and suggestions to assist them. Students write 1 narrative story.
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From a Pet's Point of View

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners explore the concept of point of view.  For this point of view lesson, students discuss the point of view of a pet and write an imaginative story.  Learners then create a power point presetation for the class to...
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Writing Morning: Narrative Setting

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Provide an overview of setting in a narrative. Learners discuss story elements, focusing on setting. Then, they set the scene for an imaginary world using their five senses. This is a great way to help your class better understand this...
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Remembering Waiting

For Teachers K - 2nd
After a close study of the pastel drawing Waiting by Edgar Degas have the class imagine the story Degas may be telling through the body language and clothing of the people in the work of art. Your young writers then create a...
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Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Do your young readers know that poems can be performed as a team? They listen to a few examples from Paul Fleischman's book Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, paying attention to how the how readers work together....
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Detective Stationery

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Inspire your investigators with fun stationery. On the page is colorful, detective-related clipart, lots of lines for writing, and a space to write in a title.
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Story With Words on Top

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students create a scene for an original story in this lesson. They think of a favorite place or event from memory or their imagination. They draw the scene that will be the setting of their story. Finally, they write the story around the...
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Picture This

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Elementary writers practice writing descriptive paragraphs by adding adjectives and sensory words to their writing. They use a picture of a monster for their descriptive paragraph. This 12-page lesson should increase your charges...
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Story Pyramids

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young writers generate descriptive words. They use pictures of various landscapes (from books, magazines, or the Internet) and complete a story pyramid. The pyramid (included here) asks to describe the main character, the setting, and...
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I love My Hair

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore strategies to help focus on writing a personal narrative. In this personal narrative writing instructional activity, students read a book and discuss how the author lets readers know how they feel. Students find a moment...
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Experience This!

For Teachers 1st
What would you do if you had to go to school all day every day? Tillie tackles this problem in Sharon Creech’s A Fine, Fine School. After a discussion of how Tillie got the principal to change his ways, brainstorm with your class...
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Come To Your Senses

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Write narratives that include ideas, observations, or memories of an event or experience, and be sure to use concrete sensory details! Groups utilize a few of the famous I Spy books in order to create narratives that utilize sensory...
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Haunted House

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Read alouds are great ways to build fluency, accuracy, and intonation. Each slide contains part of a story about a haunted house and audio of the story being read aloud by several different children. Whether you use it as a reading...
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Fairy Dictionary

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Use artwork to illicit responses in a writing journal, and then present your class with the short list of key terms provided. Can your learners add any of their own key terms? Segue for a second, and read tales such as Peter Pan or...
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Wrapping It Up

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Class members develop their own glossaries for unfamiliar words in each chapter in Elizabeth George Speare’s The Sign of the Beaver. After recording the word, the page number on which the word appears, and its part of speech, they...
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Yoruba Legends: Southern Nigeria

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Explore legends and storytelling with your learners. After listening to some legends, pupils work collaboratively and then individually to come up with original legends about animals.
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Presidents' Day Lined Journal Page

For Students K - 6th Standards
Make the fathers of our country proud with a writing assignment for Presidents' Day! An image of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln accompanies a writing template page.
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Sharing Your Vacation-Send a Postcard!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students demonstrate how to write about travel experiences. In this narrative writing lesson, students discuss what the purpose of postcards are and any personal experiences they have had with writing a postcard. Students observe the...
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Creative Writing Picture Prompt - Winter Scene

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this creative writing worksheet, students examine a black line picture of a winter scene. They write a story about a boy running in the snow and a snowman.

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