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Isla Story Map and Time-line

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders arrange five major events from the story Isla in correct order on a quiz. They represent the sequence of at least five story events through a story map based on the book, Isla.
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Crazy Christmas Stories

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this writing worksheet, students compose their own creative Christmas story. Students choose from four different beginning sentences.
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Beginning Short Stories - "Oh No!"

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this beginning short stories learning exercise, students read a basic version of a story and then they read an advanced version of the same story. Students then answer 8 questions about the story and its vocabulary.
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Crazy Critters Creative Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners brainstorm animals with unusual characteristics such as a giraffe with a short neck or a zebra without stripes. They write paragraphs about their animals and work in peer editing groups to refine their stories.
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Completing a Christmas Story

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discuss with teacher how to complete a short story and the elements necessary: characters, settings, themes, and plots. They then use the worksheet to complete the short story.
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Africa Group Creative Writing

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Africa writing activity, students collaborate in a group and have 25 minutes to write a story using the 6 words provided. The words are: corrupt, drought, grasslands, epidemic, refugee, savannah.
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Planet Earth Group Creative Writing

For Students 4th - 5th
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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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 worksheet, 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 worksheet, 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 worksheet, 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
Students 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.  Students discuss the...
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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 worksheet, students 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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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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A Special Gift for a Special Friend : Writing Prompt

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this writing worksheet, young scholars 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, students 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
In 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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Sticking Together: Sharing Our Stories, Our Differences, and Our Similarities

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students create a classroom community. In 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. In this story writing instructional activity, students share their favorite TV shows and discuss their favorite characters. Students draw pictures that illustrate a story in...

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