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Join The Circus
In this literacy learning exercise, students use a picture and word bank to draw a picture depicting what they would like to do in the circus, then write about it.
Curated OER
Environment Group Creative Writing
In this creative writing worksheet, students work as a group to write a story using 13 words that are associated with the environment. They have 25 minutes to write using words such as poacher, rainforest, smog, ozone, evolution, and...
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Planet Earth Group Creative Writing
For 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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Great Authors Group Creative Writing
In this creative writing activity worksheet, learners collaborate to write a story using the words characters, captivate, focus, intrigue, imagination, plot, recognition, style, and wisdom.
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Flag Day Group Creative Writing
In this Flag Day creative writing worksheet, students collaborate to write a piece pertaining to the holiday using the 12 words listed.
Candlewick Press
A Classroom Guide to Peter H. Reynolds's Creatrilogy
Help young readers find, identify, and use their voices with a set of empowering activities based on Peter H. Reynolds' trilogy of books. Sky Color, Ish, and The Dot focus on recognizing moods and treating each other...
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Where Will Skaterdog Go Next?
Skaterdog is going somewhere, all right - but where? Engage your learners' interest with this activity, which allows them to write Skaterdog's story in two modalities: first, as a three-pane comic strip, and then in a three-line story.
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My Pumpkin Patch
In this literacy activity, students practice writing about the subject of harvest and pumpkins. They also color in the picture.
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My Pet!
Furry friends are a big part of kids' lives, and here, they can be immortalized in pictures and stories. Give your students a chance to draw and color their pets - real or pretend - and then write a short sentence about them.
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Peer Editing Worksheets
What kind of writing did your class just complete? Narrative writing? Process writing? Compare and contrast writing? Print this packet; there are 10 different peer-editing worksheets included here for a variety of writing. Teach your...
Prestwick House
The House on Mango Street Activity Pack
Enrich a unit on The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros with a selection of related activities. The packet contains nine activities that go from pre-reading through wrapping up the novel. Young readers work on studying...
Teach-nology
The Purpose of Summaries
How can you tell the author's purpose from just a short summary? Kids read three different summaries of books to determine whether the author meant to entertain, persuade, or inform.
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Starting Something New
Students write a short composition about learning something new that is hard to do after reviewing the nouns, verbs, prepositions, adjectives, and conjunctions in a picture-word bank.
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Marc Chagall
In this language arts worksheet, students are asked to draw a picture from their imagination. They are then to synthesize writing about their picture and write on the lines provided.
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Paul Gauguin
In this language arts instructional activity, students read a story starter, write a story and illustrate it. The topic is where students would like to live if they could live anywhere.
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I'm Afraid of the Dark
In this writing worksheet, students read a story starter which asks them to recall a time they were afraid of the dark. Students write the story telling of their experience.
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Magic Seeds
In this Language Arts learning exercise, students color in a picture of flowerpot. Students also write a story or description about the illustration.
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My Hiding Place
In this writing worksheet, students read a story starter that asks if they have a special hiding place. Students write the story and illustrate it.
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The Four Friends
In this literacy worksheet, students color in the picture and then respond to the short writing prompt about working together and friendship.
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Penguin, Penguin
In this language arts learning exercise, students examine a picture and read about mother and father penguins who help their babies. Students write about a time 2 special people have helped them.
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Safety Sequence
Follow up a class reading of the children's book Officer Buckle and Gloria with this simple sequence-of-events worksheet. Including pictures of six key moments from the story, young learners must first number them in the correct...
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What Would You Look Like if You Were a Clown?
In this language arts worksheet, learners write a creative story about what they might look like if they were a clown. Students are encouraged to use many descriptive words. Learners then draw a picture to match their description.
Scholastic
Meet You at the Movies
Brightly equipped knights and highborn maidens come to life as young screenwriters use the provided instructional activity to script a film version of Edgar Allan Poe's "Eldorado" or "Annabel Lee."
Scholastic
Developing a Main Character
Asking kids to craft their own stories? Get them starting with a character planning sheet that asks them to identify the character's likes and dislikes, his or her strengths and fears, a goal the character wants to achieve, and...