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Bulgarian Creative Writing Competition

Creative Writing Prompts For Every Season and Month

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Winter, spring, summer, and fall! Every season is covered in a 14-page list of writing prompts. Included are story starters, reflection questions, poetry topics, and more.
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Lesson Planet's Summer Writing Challenge

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Take part in an online learning community, and win prizes by participating in Lesson Planet's first Summer Writing Challenge!
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Activity
Bulgarian Creative Writing Competition

Creative Writing Workshop

For Teachers K - 12th
Looking for suggestions on how to organize a creating writing workshop? For topic suggestions appropriate for various grade levels? Check out a resource packet, designed for English language arts instructors, that is packed with ideas...
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Writing
Kid Zone

What is Your Favorite Summer Memory?

For Students 1st - 3rd
What are your pupils' favorite memories? Writing is one of the most difficult skills to master and writing every day for short periods of time is a fantastic way to improve overall expository writing skills and ability with writing...
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Printables
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Education World

How I Spent My Summer Vacation Prompt

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Learn all about your new students' exciting summer breaks with this simple writing exercise. Young learners complete a series of three sentence frames about their summer vacation and their hopes for the new school year before drawing...
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Writing
John F. Kennedy Center

Writing a Myth

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Tap into the imaginative minds of young learners with a creative writing activity. After reading the myth Giants and Mosquitoes, this student guide supports young writers as they brainstorm and develop their very own creation myths....
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Review with Creative Writing

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Connect a wide range of literature concepts where writers demonstrate mastery through creative writing.
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Writing
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K12 Reader

A Special Summer Day

For Students 3rd - 5th
Young writers craft the story of a special summer day, detailing the event and why the day was so memorable.
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Unit Plan
National Center for Families Learning

The Summer Fun Summer Learning Poetry Unit

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
Focus on poetry this summer to enhance those comprehension, fluency, and language skills with a set of resources intended to explore different types of poetry, specifically lyric poetry. The daily activities contain differentiation ideas...
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Writing
Curriculum Corner

May Writing Ideas

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
From Cinco de Mayo to Endangered Species day to National Hamburger Month, May is full of ideas to write about. Give young writers prompts that have everything to do with the month of May. Topics include writing a story, conducting...
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Writing
Have Fun Teaching

12 Months of Daily Journal Prompts

For Students Pre-K - 9th
Imagine a packet of 365 colorfully illustrated journal prompt templates, grouped by month, that recognize themes, holidays, and events. Here 'tis, imagine that.
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Handout
Montgomery County Public Schools

Summer Journal Ideas

For Students 2nd - 12th
Twenty prompts, fifteen starters, and ten situations. What more could you ask for from a list of journal ideas?
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Daily Writing Prompts for June

For Students 1st - 12th
In this writing worksheet, a writing prompt is provided for every day of the month of June. There is also a link provided that contains additional resources for more activities.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Standardized Writing Prompts

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this writing prompt worksheet, students use their writing skills to write a composition based on the picture and prompt regarding a robot.
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Printables
Homeschool Encouragement

Travel Printable for Kids

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Help make children's vacations a little more meaningful with this collection of writing materials. Offering numerous writing paper templates, writing prompts, and coloring pages, this resource engages children in creating a written...
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Unit Plan
National Center for Families Learning

The Summer Fun Summer Learning Dramatic and Story Reading Unit

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
What's the difference between story reading and story telling? Participants in a summer enrichment program learn all about the difference as they listen to famous speeches, engage in dramatic readings, and craft their own short stories...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Episodic Writing Using Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Help your middle-schoolers expand their writing skills with this lesson on episodic writing, which focuses on story details, idea development, and organization. After reading "The Eighth Picture: End of Summer" from Patricia Reilly...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

My Summer Memory

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this writing worksheet, students will write about a summer memory on the pattern of a clamshell. Students will cut out the clamshell and decorate the outside.
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Organizer
Curated OER

August Writing Prompts

For Students 2nd - 6th
In this writing prompt worksheet, students are given a set of prompts for each day of August. The worksheet is a set of prompts for the teacher to cut out and distribute to students, and included 2 blank decorated templates for original...
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Study Guide
Southwest Miami Senior High School

US History Summer Instructional Packet

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Can you boil the historical, cultural, and political events and movements from the last 150 years into a descriptive study guide? You don't have to—it's right here! A thorough resource includes informative text, discussion questions,...
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Activity
Reading Is Fundamental

Summer Fun...

For Teachers K - 5th
Extend learning through summer with these activity ideas! Individuals can choose one or all nine of the activities, which range from a summer reading goal to an examination of local insects (with accompanying story prompt). See the...
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Education.com

Back-to-School Letter

For Students 2nd - 4th
Treasure your summer memories with a letter to yourself, ten months in the future. Think about the fun and memorable things you did this summer, as well as the things you want to accomplish during this school year, and write a letter...
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Assessment
Fluence Learning

Writing About Literature: Nature in the Writings of John Muir and Emily Dickinson

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
As an assessment of their skill in crafting a compare and contrast essay, class members read and compare the portrayals of nature in excerpts from naturalist John Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra and from poet Emily Dickinson's "The...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

June 20 - First Day of Summer

For Students 7th - 8th
In this writing prompt worksheet, students learn that June 20th is the first day of summer. Students write what their favorite summer activity is.