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Middle school creative writing projects
The Best Part of Me {A Positive Self-Image Project}
The Best Part of Me {A Positive Self-Image Project}: The Best Part of Me writing project is such an amazing way to build confidence in your students. It encourages a positive self-image by having your students write about the best part of themselves. This unit was created as a writing activity to go along with the book The Best Part of Me, written by Wendy Ewald, but it can still be completed without the book. This file has been recently updated to include digital files for Google Slides! T
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2nd - 6th
End of the Year Activities, Worksheets, Memories & Reflections for Middle School
23 End of Year activities to allow students to reflect on the year, plan for the summer or their break, to set goals for next year, to write journal entries about their goals and plans for the future, to get to know their peers better, to draw and be creative (selfies! Instagram memories! Tablet photo fun (draw)!), to write letters to their future teachers and write a letter to give advice to future students. This is a great way to summarize the year for intermediate and middle school students,
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: End of the Year, Art Lessons, Worksheets & Activities Bundle
Cereal Box Book Report Template: Project Directions, Rubric & Example Idea Photo
Students LOVE this Cereal Box Book Report template! Students pick a fiction book and design a cereal based on it. This creative & fun cereal box project resources comes with awesome real-life example photos. My favorite part is the character 'ingredient' list & special prize inside. Students love this creative cereal box book report project and it is a great way to recycle/reuse cereal boxes too. Happy teaching!**Just Added!** I have added printable templates for students to write on,
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2nd - 6th
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Novel Study FINAL Projects | 20 Hands On Projects for ANY Novel + Rubrics
This resource comes with 20 different hands-on, engaging projects that can be completed with ANY novel or short story. These projects will encourage students to be creative and think outside the box, all while applying important ELA skills and standard practices! 45+ pages of creativity! ALL 20 projects come with an individualized rubric for easy grading and a brainstorming section for students to complete.Projects Include:Cartoon StripMovie PosterMobileNewspaperBoard GameCostume DesignShadowbo
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7th - 12th
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Create Your Own Island! End-of-Year Writing Project
Do your kids have spring fever? Are you wondering how to keep them writing right up through the end of the year? This is the project for you! Get ready to turn your students from reluctant writers into inspired travel guides.This project engages students in creating their very own personalized island. Kids can make their island realistic or go all-out and make a crazy fantasy island with attractions like a hot chocolate river or a dinosaur petting zoo!After designing their map, students will cre
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3rd - 6th
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Editable "What Should My Teacher Be for Halloween?" Costume Writing Activity
Looking for a fun opinion writing activity around Halloween time? This is a fun writing activity for students to design a costume for their teacher or teachers! This activity can be edited to change your name. There are sheets for female and male teachers! Before making copies, I cut and glued a picture of my head to the writing paper. My kids LOVED this activity! Who doesn't love turning their teacher into a princess?!***UPDATE*** This product is now in a digital format using GOOGLE SLIDES!*Not
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PreK - 6th
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Also included in: Halloween Activity Bundle
Completely Editable "What Should my Teacher be for Halloween?" Writing Activity
This is a completely editable "What Should my Teacher be for Halloween?" persuasive writing activity. This activity can be edited to include your name and your face! The activity asks the students to choose a Halloween costume for you. The students then have to write down three reasons why they think you should choose their costume. Once the students are done writing down their reasons, they are able to draw you in your costume. Your students will absolutely love this writing activity!
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1st - 6th
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Hip Hop into Spring Bunny Craft and Writing
HIP HOPPING INTO SPRING HAS NEVER BEEN SO CUTE! Check out our latest craft and writing to get excited for Spring with your students!!This craft includes 3 differentiated writing paper options, adorable accessories, and a sweet rabbit and stereo craft!
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PreK - 6th
Create an Advertisement Persuasive Writing Project Prompts Advertising Activity
Have you been struggling to find engaging persuasive writing prompts that your students haven't encountered a dozen times before? Our Unsellable Product Challenge is guaranteed to be one of the most fun and memorable persuasive writing activities your students will undertake this school year.This no-prep, full week project comes with step-by-step instructions via engaging digital slides. Students choose from 12 humorous 'unsellable products' like a used toothbrush, man-eating plant, or wheelless
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Junior Innovators Project Bundle - End of Year Projects
Shoe Box Diorama Book Report Template: Perfect for Fiction or Non-Fiction Books
Students LOVE this Shoebox Diorama Book Report template! Students pick a fiction or non-fiction book and decorate a shoe box based on it! Students just love this creative book report! Students are responsible for decorating all sides of the box according to directions and putting a creative scene inside that represents the book.This book report is designed to work with any fiction OR non-fiction book. Pages 4 – 6: Fiction and Pages 7 – 9: Non-FictionShoebox book diorama projects (or shoebox boo
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2nd - 6th
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Write Your Own Short Story Project - A Middle School Short Story Unit
Write Your Own Short Story Project is perfect for the end of a short story unit or as an introduction to creative writing! Your students will love this interactive, hands-on writing unit. Students will create their own character profiles, point of view, type of conflict, and much more as they apply various elements of literature into their very own stories!TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rosa W. says, "Loved this resource! Breaks down the steps of writing a short story while teaching the compo
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5th - 9th
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Math Project - Volume Zoo: Build 3D Animal Replicas
Volume Zoo - Fun Math Project for anyone teaching Volume!Engage your students in a fun and hands-on learning experience on finding the volume of rectangular prisms with our Volume Zoo Project! This interactive project allows students to show their creativity by building 3D replicas of animals using simple materials like cardboard boxes. As they construct their masterpieces, students will delve into important math concepts such as the additive volume (composite volume) of rectangular prisms and c
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Volume Zoo - Mini & Large Version Bundle
40 Printable Templates for Storyboards or Comic Strips
This product includes 40 different designs of templates you can use for comic strips or storyboards. Assign a comic strip in place of a book summary, or use the storyboards for creative writing, screenwriting, or playwriting. There are 20 templates in landscape (horizontal) format and 20 templates in portrait (vertical) format. Each template contains a space for a title, plus anywhere from 4 to 12 boxes per page. Some pages contain boxes for captions, some contain lines, and some leave off the c
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3rd - 12th
Also included in: English Language Arts Graphic Organizers Bundle: Writing and Vocabulary
Walk in My Shoes Empathy Activity Self Reflection, Compassion & Kindness Project
Walk In My shoes is creative writing and project focused on self-reflection and encourages compassion and empathy. This get to know you activity makes an insightful back to school activity and fun bulletin board or hallway display. This activity encourages children to look life from other's perspectives, have empathy and promotes kindness. Great for:Bulletin Boards or Hallway DisplayGet to know you activity (beginning of the year)Small Group Activity Empathy Activity to enhance an existing lesso
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2nd - 6th
E-Book Template Bundle
Make Beautiful E-Books in a Snap!If you only know PowerPoint or Google Slides as support systems for live presentations, you may not have discovered their potential for making PDF e-books. These templates will allow you and your students to create beautiful e-books for just about any purpose you can imagine. Here are just a few ideas:* Personal memory books* Mini-textbooks* Reflective journals* Research projects* Illustrated stories or poetry collections* Art, photography, or writing portfolios*
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6th - 12th
Halloween Writing: Scary Story Narrative Unit with Google
Engage your students with a fun narrative writing unit! Students will follow each step of the writing process as they develop scary stories. A unit plan is included to help you guide your students through each step. This writing unit will work at any time of the year, but scary stories are always extra fun for Halloween. Now includes differentiated plot diagram maps and a Google version! Also added plans in Google Slides for easy editing.✅Included:Digital Links & DirectionsUnit Plan Brainsto
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Halloween Writing Bundle: Narrative and Poetry Units
Christmas Writing - Persuasive Letter Writing and Elf Application Project
Christmas Writing, Christmas Creative Writing, Elf ApplicationHO HO HO! 'Tis the season Santa needs extra ELVES on staff!Help Wanted at the North Pole! is a festive writing project, encouraging students to exercise their creativity and practice the "art" of writing a letter of interest. Students will begin by listening to How Santa Got His Job by Stephen Krensky (not included) and completing a corresponding graphic organizer. Next, students will receive a Help Wanted at the North Pole! advertise
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3rd - 6th
Book Report Choice Board Menu | Book Report Template for Any Book | 9 Ideas
Book Report Menu: Students LOVE having choices in their Book Report! Students may choose the option on this book report template that best suits their learning style and personality. All book report choices must include a one-page summary page as well. This resource includes Book Report Choice Board Menu directions page and grading rubric.Book Report Choice Board options include:- Movie Trailer- Photo and Text Collage- Comic Strip- Write a Test- Shoebox Diorama- Create a Food- Book Jacket- Book
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2nd - 6th
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Play Writing and Drama Pack
Teaching Drama can be so BORING! Memorizing terms and reading Drama passages then answering multiple choice questions just isn't how most of our students learn. If you are looking for something more engaging, give this play writing pack a try! Everything you need to turn your student's into mini-playwrights is included! Included are options for brainstorming and planning out dialogue and characters, design Playbill covers and sets, and selecting settings.
After writing plays, students can perfo
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3rd - 6th
Christmas Poetry Poet-Tree
The weeks leading up to winter break is the perfect time to work on literary devices/figurative language and a poetry unit. This Christmas Poet-Tree is just the thing you need get your students excited about these fabulous poetry devices.
The students will learn about personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, simile, and metaphor. Each of these are used in poetry and add life to dull language. Students will be given examples of these in a Christmas theme.
They will then writ
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2nd - 6th
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Halloween Project: Two-Sentence Horror Stories Writing Activity for Secondary
Why should elementary school students have all the Halloween fun? If you love Halloween as much as your students do, than this product will help bring the spirit of the season to your middle school or high school classroom!Based on the internet phenomenon asking people to write the most terrifying story they can in just two sentences, this resource gives you everything you need to bring the excitement and challenge to your classroom.This fun, fresh product comes with an in-depth teacher's guide
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7th - 10th
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Create a Restaurant Descriptive PBL Writing Project | Figurative Language
This assignment is perfect for Grade 4 - 8 students learning figurative language and descriptive writing. Students will experience real-world applications to their learning by designing a menu for a restaurant, describing menu items using figurative language and writing a descriptive paragraph about the restaurant (sensory details). This is a printable and digital, no-prep resource that provides students with mentor paragraphs for mini-lessons and organizers to help scaffold the learning for top
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4th - 8th
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Memoir Unit: 2+ Weeks of Reading, Writing, & Discussion
Read and tell true stories through a memoir unit that keeps students engaged from the first web quest to each mentor text to the last interview!
All of the frontloading and reading activities build up to the grand finale: writing our own memoirs (and/or doing the interview project to write someone else’s memoir for them).
This unit uses a lot of choice to make room for student engagement (and differentiation); the unit can be easily adapted for middle OR high school, based on the texts you ch
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Reading Nonfiction Lessons & Projects Bundle for Secondary ELA
Writing Interactive Bulletin Board for Middle & High School Classroom Decor
This interactive bulletin board is a way to encourage students to TELL THEIR STORY and share it with their peers. I’ve included 21 different journal writing prompts for students to choose in this resource. Simply print and display them in your classroom. WHAT'S INCLUDED: Bulletin Board DirectionsDisplay Images"We All Have A Story To Tell" letters for board21 writing challengesCollaborative directions for students to share their journal entries with their peersPictures for examplesTEACHER DIRE
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5th - 11th
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