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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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Making Poetry Writing Fun!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars find a group of words from an unlikely source and turn them into a poem. They discuss the central image in two well-known poems by Langston Hughes and Emily Dickinson. They write their own short poem expressing one...
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Writing a News Report

For Students 3rd - 7th
In this creative writing worksheet, students use the checklist to edit their fictional news report. Students use the checklist to prepare for their final written report.
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Maestro Creativity Challenge

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students work in small groups to write an article using the maestro group format. In this journalism instructional activity students break into groups and randomly choose an item that must be incorporated into their article.
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Middle Ages Writing Journal

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a Middle Ages writing journal with narrative, expository and persuasive prompts.  In this creative writing lesson, students are given a list of Middle Ages topics and begin working in their journals. This is a long term...
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Elements of Fiction

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners investigate themes and settings in their favorite fiction stories.  In this creative writing lesson plan, students discuss the reasons a fictional story works well and discuss ways to create their own.  Learners create their own...
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A Sample Mini-lesson for Teaching Writing Conventions

For Teachers K - 8th
Students study writing conventions. In this writing conventions lesson plan, students study writing they have already completed and look for conventions they are already using without realizing. In a small group, students discuss...
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Christmas Writing Prompts

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this Christmas writing prompts worksheet, learners choose from the 33 writing prompts to develop their creative writing skills.
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Writing Prompt "Living With Fame"

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice their creative writing skills by describing fame.  In this writing prompt lesson, 4th graders identify fame and how their life would be dramatically different if they were wildly famous.  Students utilize a four...
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Peer writing evaluation (myth)

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Pupils compose myths.  In this creative writing lesson students  use their knowledge of the features of myths to compose their own, then share with a peer for feedback.
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Write a Story

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this creative writing worksheet, students write a story about the picture on the worksheet of a boy chasing a frog.
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Women's History Group Creative Writing

For Students 4th - 5th
In this women's history writing learning exercise, students have 25 minutes to write a story using given phrases related to women's history.
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"Take my Advice": Poems with a Voice

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
Discuss the meaning of the phrase tone of voice with the class. They respond to a variety of scenarios where a particular tone would be prevalent. They then read "Mother to Son" without knowing the title and answer some questions about...
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Animoto Video Slideshow Maker

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Turn the pictures on your phone into a great looking movies that will blow the hair back of whoever watches it. It is easy to make people laugh, cry, or just inform them about something interesting by using the creative tools available.  
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May Writing Ideas

For Students 4th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students explore and discover a variety of ways to help make writing more interesting and creative.
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The Apprentice: A Study of Business and Technical Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore business practices by creating a portfolio in class. In this business writing lesson, students identify the causes for a businesses success and failure before deciding on a business they would like to create. Students...
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Write Your Own Screen Play

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers critique the transition of "Holes" from a novel to screenplay and consider how the details in a book are brought to life in a movie. They then choose a scene in a book and transform it into an original script after...
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Picture Books, Retelling, and Writing

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students create stories using only pictures.  In this visual storytelling lesson, students read Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie de Paola and analyze the wordless story.  Students create new text for the book by writing on sticky notes.
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From a Pet's Point of View

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners explore the concept of point of view.  For this point of view lesson, students discuss the point of view of a pet and write an imaginative story.  Learners then create a power point presetation for the class to view. 
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Writing A Story: Batman Superhero Family

For Students 3rd
In this story writing worksheet, 3rd graders examine a picture of Batman, his wife and son in full superhero costume. Students write a creative story about the picture.
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Technical Writing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss technical writing and its importance in the work place and review the definition of technical writing They evaluate technical writing examples and look for characteristics of effective technical writing. They conduct a...
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Monster Writings

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice descriptive writing by describing a fictitious monster they created.  In this language arts lesson, 4th graders illustrate an image of a monster character they imagine and practice using their vocabulary to...
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Halloween Poem And Story Book Covers And Writing Paper

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this Halloween writing worksheet, students use the cover sheet and decorated lined paper to write poems and stories of their own. Students may staple the pages into a book.
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T-shirt With Primary Writing Lines

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this writing worksheet, students use the T-shirt shape with blank primary lines for any creative writing purpose. This lined paper matches the blank T-shirt on another page which could be used as part of a shape book.

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