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Bucket and Shovel
In this creative writing instructional activity, students write a paragraph onto the bucket template about what they like to do at the beach. There is also a template cover page for students to color.
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Try a Drawing Drawer
Integrating art into your classroom every day just got easier. This fantastic idea provides 43 strips intended to keep early finishers busy and to bring art into the classroom. You cut the strips, put them in a drawer, and have early...
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Pirate Adventure: Story Starter
In this creative writing worksheet, students first read a short story starter about a pirate adventure. Students finish the story on the lines provided.
Novelinks
The Dark Is Rising: Biopoem
How well do your learners really know the characters in Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising? A biopoem activity prompts readers to investigate the characters and their traits. Line by line, writers add the characters'...
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Determinants of Supply and Demand Worksheet
In this economics worksheet, students respond to writing prompt questions about supply and demand issues in the world economy today.
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Writing Potions
In this creative writing worksheet, students use the prompt to write a creative short story. Students write about their experiences after drinking an invisibility potion.
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The Monster Match
In this creative writing worksheet, students read the story starter and then use their imagination to craft their own middle and end to complete the story.
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If I were…
In this story starter activity, students read the prompt written inside each gingerbread man shape and complete the story. Each starter is printed on a separate page; all are holiday or winter related.
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Writing Exercise: The Neolithic Revolution
Provide a format for your historians to explore the Neolithic Revolution using this writing exercise. Three display questions prompt scholars to reflect on how the revolution was a turning point in human history, its impact on gender...
K12 Reader
An Interview with President Lincoln
What would you ask Abraham Lincoln if you had the chance? Class members draft interview questions for the 16th U.S. President, and imagine what his responses would be.
Education Development Center
Factoring a Degree Six Polynomial
Within collaborative groups, scholars factor a degree six polynomial. They can factor the polynomial using many different strategies — a great way to prompt mathematical discussion.
Children's Theatre of Cincinnati
A Charlie Brown Christmas Study Guide
Bring A Charlie Brown Christmas to social studies, language arts, math, science, and art class! Learners ponder the meaning of Christmas trees, write about Christmas during the original release of the television special,...
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Multiplication/Division Number Series
Expand mathematical thinking with these prompts for scholars to use writing as they approach math. First, they use the numbers 3, 5, and 15 in an original multiplication number story, followed by a related division story. Encourage...
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Story About a Picture
In this story prompt worksheet, students 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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The Gingerbread Man
In this story writing worksheet, students read the story starter inside the shape of the gingerbread man and finish the story on the lines. The prompt reads, "If I were the Gingerbread Man, I would ..."
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Time Machine
In this creative writing worksheet, students use the prompt about a time machine to write a creative short story about that prompt.
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The Door Guard
In this creative writing worksheet, learners use the prompt about a noise behind a castle door to write a creative short story.
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Millions of Footprints
In this creative writing activity, students use the prompt about millions of footprints to write a short story. The objective is to enhance students' writing skills.
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Settlers on Mars
In this creative writing worksheet, students use the prompt about living life on Mars. Students write about the problems they encounter and how they solve them.
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The Cave
For this creative writing worksheet, students write a short story about finding a cave with danger signs all around it. Students write about entering the cave.
Lied Center of Kansas
The Ugly Duckling and The Tortoise and the Hare
Both The Ugly Duckling and The Tortoise and the Hare are great additions to an elementary language arts lesson. Young readers focus on the literary elements of each story, including characters and plot development, and apply...
Virginia Department of Education
Graphing Linear Equations
Combine linear equations and a little creativity to produce a work of art. Math scholars create a design as they graph a list of linear equations. Their project results in a stained glass window pattern that they color.
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Understanding Protagonists and Antagonists
How can you tell if a character is a villain? What about a hero? Work on literary analysis with an engaging language arts instructional activity. After completing an activity about the four types of conflict, learners fill out a...
EngageNY
Estimating Digits in a Quotient
Boiling down any division problem to a one-digit divisor problem sure makes estimation easy. The lesson shows how to estimate division problems by using place value understanding and basic arithmetic facts to simplify the division. Some...