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Planet Earth Group Creative Writing

For Students 4th - 5th
In this creative group writing worksheet, students have twenty-five minutes to write a brief story about planet Earth using the words listed in the word bank.
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Antarctica Group Creative Writing

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this creative writing worksheet, students write a brief story about Antarctica, using a list of given words or variations of the words.
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American Civil War Group Creative Writing Activity

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Civil War instructional activity, students work with a group and have 25 minutes to write a story about the Civil War, using a group of vocabulary words about the war.
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Arbor Day Group Creative Writing

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this Arbor Day writing activity, students collaborate with others to write a story about trees and Arbor Day. Students have 25 minutes to write and must use the 16 words in the box.
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Passive Sentences- A Thanksgiving Story

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Thanksgiving story learning exercise, students read a short story before choosing five sentences to change to passive sentences. They write the 5 sentences on the lines below the story.
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Witch of Blackbird Pond

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners utilize their reading comprehension abilities by discussing a story in class.  In this story analysis lesson, students read the story Witch of Blackbird Pond and answer questions in their reading journal.  Learners...
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Story Grammar Recording Worksheet

For Students 4th - 7th
In this story grammar recording worksheet, student fill in the blanks with the title, author, setting, main characters, conflicts, and events of a story in order. They write a paragraph describing the conclusion.
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Which Way? Ordering Story Events

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this ordering events activity, learners read a 3 paragraph story, then correctly order a set of 6 events. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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Creative Writing Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students practice recognizing the elements needed to produce a piece of creative writing and become aware of those elements in their own original pieces of writings. In groups, they creatively write a new story utilizing all the major...
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A Special Gift for a Special Friend : Writing Prompt

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this writing worksheet, students will write about a special gift they would like to give a friend and tell why they would choose that friend. Lines for writing are provided.
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Time for a Change: Writing Prompt

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this writing worksheet, students will write about one thing they would change about themselves if they could and tell why. Writing lines are provided.
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Dinosaur reports-4 blocks guided reading & focused writing (Elementary, 4 Blocks)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read books about dinosaurs for book club groups and then participate in focused writing. In this reading and writing lesson, students work together over the course of three days to produce a group story about a dinosaur.
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Writing Bug: New in School

For Teachers 1st - 4th
In this writing prompt worksheet, young scholars write on the prompt, "Tomorrow is the big day! It will be your first day attending a new school. You're thinking about..."
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Flag Day Group Creative Writing

For Students 4th - 8th
For this Flag Day creative writing worksheet, students collaborate to write a piece pertaining to the holiday using the 12 words listed.
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Compare and Contrast (3)

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Sometimes the way a topic is presented in fiction can be very different from how it is in reality. Compare and contrast a topic from both a fiction and nonfiction source with a graphic organizer that prepares kids to write about what...
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Sticking Together: Sharing Our Stories, Our Differences, and Our Similarities

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students create a classroom community. For this character education lesson, students discuss the functions of communities and then work in small groups to write stories to be shared with their classmates.
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Write to Music

For Teachers 4th
Students improve their creative writing skills. In this writing skills lesson, students learn about picture captions, story writing, critiques, poems, reports, letter writing, creative writing, and a rap poem.
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TV and Teaching

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students write a story centered around their favorite TV show. For this story writing lesson, students share their favorite TV shows and discuss their favorite characters. Students draw pictures that illustrate a story in which they are...
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Tall Tales

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the characteristics of tall tales and how exaggerations are used. They create a character that is larger than life, they brainstorm attributes for their character, before writing a Tall Tale. They plan out their story,...
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Dr. Seuss

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students read books by the same author and compare what they find.  In this Dr. Seuss lesson, students learn about Dr. Seuss' writing style, listen for the rhyme scheme in his stories, and create a KWL chart on Dr. Seuss. ...
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Picture the Process

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students read Chasing Vermeer and relate the book to the author .  In this writing process lesson, students view Blue's Photo Album and see how the author writes and revises her work. Students discuss the process that all good...
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Retell the "Tail" of the Tale

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore story structure. In this multicultural literacy lesson, students discuss common elements of folk tales and then listen to the story Tiger and the Big Wind: A Tale from Africa. Students identify the problem and solution...
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Drafting

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students engage in the writing process. In this drafting lesson, students research different types of genres to find which they enjoy reading and writing. They review the drama in a story and discuss different story prompts. 
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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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