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Printable Story Starter: Snow Leopard

For Students 3rd - 4th
This writing prompt about a hungry snow leopard provides students with the beginning of a story, including characters, a setting, and a conflict that the student can complete. The student can then compose an original middle and end of...
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Picture Prompt: Valentine Mice

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students write the story after seeing the picture of one mouse giving a Valentine to another mouse. They provide the title, as well as the beginning, middle, and end of the story. A text box allows teachers to type in preferred words,...
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Ahimsa in Writers Workshop

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate nonviolent lifestyles by researching the life of Gandhi.  In this journalism lesson, students define the word ahimsa and how important nonviolence is when solving conflicts.  Students create a timeline of...
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Delicious Descriptive Adjectives

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students write out recipes with different adjectives then share them with the class.
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Imaginative Winter Stories

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write, type, and print imaginative stories about any phase of winter.
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Picture Prompt: Penguins and Christmas Tree

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
What happens when penguins put up a Christmas tree? Only your students know for sure, since they're the ones writing the story! A picture of penguins around a Christmas tree is sure to inspire even your most reluctant writers to begin,...
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Celebrating Heroes That Surround Us

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the concept of a hero. They write in journals to find definitions and create hero symbols. Also students conduct research to create a banner of quotations made by famous heroes who fall under the definition generated...
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Build the Arctic Tundra

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars build a model of biome in order to comprehend the abiotic and biotic factors that are prevalent in a biome. In this hands on building lesson, students use a box to build a biome. . Young scholars decorate the...
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Fill-Them-In Fairy Tale

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts worksheet, students personalize their own fairy tale by filling in blanks with their own words in a 3 page story. Students read the context clues and decide which words they wish to insert in the fairy tale which is...
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History Dramatists

For Teachers 2nd - 10th Standards
Bring the drama of history to life in your class and give your learners the opportunity to illustrate their understanding of a historical situation through the medium of a dialogue and/or play. Your young historians will consider a...
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Share Stories and Discuss

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore literature by examining story elements. In this storytelling lesson, students identify the importance of setting, and characters within a story. Students answer questions about their personal opinions on storytelling and...
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Writer's Workshop Writing Dialogue: Night of the Twisters

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this writing worksheet, students learn proper punctuation and sentence variety as they write a dialogue pertaining to events in Night of the Twisters. Students read the information about how to use quotation marks, then write their...
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Log Cabin in a Thunderstorm Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students work on a K-W-L chart about electrical storms, lightening, and thunder. They discuss how meteorologists forecast storms and research their answers which are shared in a whole class setting. Using art supplies, they draw dwelling...
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Using Comic Strips to Teach the Use of Quotation Marks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners identify when and why quotations are used. Using comic strips and speech bubbles, they read and discuss examples of quotation marks, and in pairs write text for a cartoon on a piece of paper using quotation marks around the...
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

For Students 3rd - 12th Standards
The motto for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry warns that one should never tickle a sleeping dragon, but learners will definitely be tickled by the activities in a packet of materials designed to accompany a reading of the...
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Me Inc.

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Build your learners' self-esteem with a series of lessons that focuses on their identity and observation of the world around them. Applicable to many different subjects and lessons, the resources guide kids through the process of...
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The Important Things About Nouns

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create pages to be published into a eBook. Students read a story and identify nouns and attributes that describe the noun. Using a creative writing process, students write paragraphs and combine them for their eBook. Students...
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Printable Story Starter: Grandmother's Cottage

For Students 3rd - 4th
This writing prompt provides students with an introduction paragraph about a trip to Grandmother's house for Thanksgiving. Students can finish the story in a creative writing exercise. The prompt could be a good addition to a...
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Story Starters: Woodpeckers' Park

For Students 2nd - 4th
A great Earth Day and environment assignment, or even a basic creative writing lesson, this prompt helps students to begin the story of Woody and Woodruff, two woodpeckers who don't like litterers! Both a picture and an introduction can...
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Printable Story Starter: Tired of the Snow

For Students 3rd - 4th
This writing prompt about Earl, the polar bear, who is tired of the snow, helps students complete the story by providing the first few sentences. The prompt also sets students up with the first conflict, which they can complete as they...
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Printable Story Starter: Collision

For Students 3rd - 4th
This writing prompt provides students with the introductory paragraph to a creative story about a sledding accident. Students can use the provided prompt, or they can choose to begin a similar story with their own ideas. They are also...
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Printable Story Starter: Mothers Day

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this writing prompt, students can continue the story of Prince Rosco, whose mother has gone away for Mother's Day. The prompt provides the introduction of the story, and students can choose how to continue and end the tale of Rosco....
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Printable Story Starter: The Newest Reindeer

For Students 3rd - 4th
Students can finish the story of Pluto, the newest Reindeer, and his adventures at Rudolf's Reindeer Academy in this writing prompt. The prompt provides students with an introduction to the story and allows them to continue with details...
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Printable Story Starter: Christmas Morning

For Students 3rd - 4th
A writing prompt about a surprise on Christmas morning provides students with the beginning of the story, and invites them to finish the middle and ending. This prompt could be a good addition to a Christmas-themed unit, or as a lesson...

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