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Dirt Babies

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Dirt babies are an excellent way to show young botanists the plant life cycle. They explore the functions and industry behind grasses before growing some of their own. Use the informational text here and consider implementing some...
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Lesson: Uncovering a Mystery: Making a Hypothesis

For Teachers 1st - 6th
The class is presented with an image of a hand-carved leg. They act as art historians and hypothesize as to the purpose, nature, and creators of this amazing wooden leg. They compose journal entries from the point of view of an art...
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Rudyard Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi: Mixing Words and Pictures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Create meaningful illustrations to accompany stories in a web-based art and literacy instructional activity focused on "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling. The class takes a virtual art safari with the Museum of Modern Art and then...
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So Much to See, So Little Time

For Teachers K - 5th
How do humans and animals impact the environment? What is land division? Youngsters tape off a 12x12 inch square in an outdoor natural space. They sketch everything they see, then compare their drawings as a class. They will then be...
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Star Stories

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
An unusually inventive and entertaining presentation awaits you and your class. The first few slides introduce the animals that certain constellations represent. There are also creative stories by other students of fictitious animals...
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Write Your Own Cultural Connections

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students write a cultural narrative. In this multicultural writing lesson, students create an expository narrative to teach others about their lives. Students complete the narrative and use a buddy editing strategy to revise their papers.
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Story Books

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss a narrative work of art, then write stories describing the action and publish their stories and illustrations in books.
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Journal Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students gain a better understanding of good journal writing. They examine how there are two types of journals - personal and public, yet each serves to describe the writers feelings and experiences about a given event.
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Middle Ages Writing Journal

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a Middle Ages writing journal with narrative, expository and persuasive prompts.  In this creative writing lesson, students are given a list of Middle Ages topics and begin working in their journals. This is a long...
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Understanding Fantasy Fiction

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners investigate storytelling elements by writing their own fiction stories.  In this creative writing lesson, students listen as the teacher reads a fictional story.  Learners analyze the lack of rules in the story and...
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Pirate Adventure: Story Starter

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this creative writing worksheet, students first read a short story starter about a pirate adventure. Students finish the story on the lines provided.
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15 Seconds of Fame

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write an autobiographical essay. In this writing lesson students read a narrative, Panic in Paris, and review the elements of a narrative as a class discussion. Well-known stories are used as examples for writing their own...
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Woodland Indians

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders research Woodland Indians. In this Woodland Indian lesson, 3rd graders have a classroom discussion and write facts about the Miami Indian group. They write a narrative from the perspective of an Indian child.
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So You Want To Be A...

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students design Career Character Poster, research occupations of interest, write about their future career choices, and present a first-person narrative about their chosen occupation.
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Who's Who at Our School

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students interview staff members at their elementary school in order to get to know them better. They write interview questions, conduct an interview, write a paragraph about the staff member, and take digital pictures of that person....
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An Imaginary Trip

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students use their imaginations to write about an imaginary trip. In this creative writing instructional activity, students write about an imaginary trip. Students brainstorm writing ideas as a class and use past...
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If I Had a Hundred

For Students 1st - 4th
In this creative writing worksheet, students answer the questions provided, such as, "If I had 100 legs, I would..." All the story starters have the number 100 mentioned.
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Story Starter-- Penguin Crossing

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this writing worksheet, students examine a colorful picture of penguins crossing the street. Students read the story starter and finish the story on the lines provided.
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Creative Writing Picture Prompt - Aliens

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this creative writing worksheet, students examine a picture prompt of an alien and a frog prince. They write a story about the picture.
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Creative Writing: Sentence Story Board

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this sentence story board worksheet, students write 4 to 6 sentences outlining their story containing a beginning, middle and ending paragraph.
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Minutes to Go and Down by Two

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this creative writing worksheet, 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.
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Young Writers Workshop

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this Easter writing worksheet, students will write a short story about Betty and her Easter basket. The first sentence and blank writing lines are provided.
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Story Starters

For Students K - 5th
Starting at the very beginning may be a very good place to start, but it can also be very difficult for emergent writers. Help them get started by providing them with a setting, a main character, and a basic plot.
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Finish the Snowman: Tell the Story

For Students K - 3rd
Using pictures and words young writers create a story about a snowman decorated with "funny things."

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