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Creative writing Common Core W.7.5 resources for Microsoft Word
Revision Checklist for Vignette Writing Project
This is a thorough revision checklist for an end of House on Mango Street vignette writing project. (See resource: House on Mango Street Final Vignette-Writing Project)
This resource challenges students to revise in areas of
- clear and coherent writing
- figurative language
- detail and description
- boring words
- conventions
Includes examples and areas for students to actively check off! Great for independent work or as a group! Really helps students to build editing skills!
Accompanying
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in:Â House On Mango Street Bundle
Narrative Checklist - Peer Revision or Revise your own story!
Students are challenged to include all the essential elements to make their narratives spectacular! This narrative checklist can be used by students to check their own narrative or that of one of their classmates. On this two-page worksheet, students are asked to identify the point of view of the narrator, attention-grabber, dialogue, sentence variety, transitions, figures of speech, and the elements of plot (character, setting/mood, conflict, climax, resolution, and theme). At the end, stude
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Short Story Creative Writing Peer Review Protocol
This handout is ready to print and use for a partner peer review activity for short stories.
It solicits peer feedback on the following areas:
Title
Hook
Setting
Descriptive Language
Characterization
Dialogue
Transitions & Paragraph Breaks
Plot (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)
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6th - 9th
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Fall Poetry/Figurative Writing Cooperative Learning Project
This two-part lesson helps accomplish multiple tasks. It helps build... and it's an art project as well. It's a nice rainy afternoon activity. The definition was provided by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Grades:
6th - 8th
LA 7-8 Persuasion Unit NO PREP
Want a fun unit to kickstart your Grade 7-8 year? This unit will be just the ticket! Students will start with a rant write, persuading others why they have a certain pet peeve and why it’s important. This unit is focused on the theme of persuasion, and encompasses a variety of mediums, through visual advertising, video advertising, and persuasion in news sources and writing. Students in the present day are bombarded in a visual age where rarely is presented true information, so the intent of thi
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7th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Grade 7-8 ELA Semester Course Low Prep
Writing a Narrative: Brainstorming, Drafting, Editing, Revising & Publishing ELA
This is a a set of four lessons in which students will brainstorm, draft, edit and revise, and finally publish their own original narrative. For each of these steps, there are teacher models included to model each skill. Additionally, there is a list of different narratives (essentially narrative starters) for students to choose from.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Write a Conclusion - ELA SkillsSetting
Grades:
5th - 9th
Fear and Response Poem - Creative Writing Halloween Activity
This activity is a perfect assignment as the year nears Halloween, or anytime you study a piece of literature that deals with a character's fears.
The students determine three fears they have (however each must fit in a different category, as described in the assignment), and after describing each fear they write a response to it. In their response, the students explain how they can conquer their fear.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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Memoir Peer Revision Guide
A thorough guide for peers to be able to revise and edit each other's memoirs. The guide is more than a checklist, and gives students a place to provide explanations and helpful advise.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Creative Writing Picture Prompts & Peer Edit Checklist
Get your students' creative juices flowing with these funny photos! Post a print out of each picture around the room, have students take a gallery walk and choose 1 photo to write a story about. Then, have students peer edit using the given checklist.
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5th - 8th
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Six Trait Writing Assignment
This is a culminating activity for Six Trait Writing instruction. Spending about 30min a day for six days, I read a different picture book that highlights one of the traits. The books I use are listed in the assignment. Then, based on ideas from the Writing Fix website, I have the students do some planning for six different written pieces. After they've "tried on" each piece, they pick one and develop a formal written paper, using the full writing process. Create your own brainstorming pages or
Grades:
6th - 8th
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The Giver Community Flyer Assignment
In this creative assignment, students will design a flyer/brochure as an advertisement for Jonas’ community in The Giver. They will use persuasive writing skills to entice the reader to want to join the community and highlight the aspects that people seeking a utopian society would be drawn to. Digging deeper into the novel, this assignment gives students the chance to explore the aspects of Sameness, and deepen their understanding of the characters and setting.
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Writer's workshop project: Narrative fantasy characters & story planning sheet
Create detailed narrative fantasy stories with your students as they use this planning sheet to develop characters and the world that they live in. Students will use the packet to plan:-Characters (Physical and behavioral traits)-Conflict-Setting-Plot-Conclusion of the story
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Harry Potter Personal Narrative
Students love reading Harry Potter and wish they could escape to Hogwarts. This writing activity allows them to do just that. Students will use their creativeness to write a personal narrative of themselves as a character in Harry Potter & the Sorcerers Stone. Within their writing, students will have to show examples of figurative language, point-of-view, dialogue, and mood.
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Harry Potter Personal Narrative Bundle
Writing To Show Not Tell
Do your students need help showing their characters emotions? Then this is the perfect resource for you!Great as a handout or for small groups!
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Poetry Project
This a great creative writing project to wrap up a poetry unit. This packet takes the students through the writing processes of brainstorming, pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing as they create four original poems that fit a theme of their choosing.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Realistic Fiction Short Story Rubric
Teachers can share this rubric to communicate requirements for a short story to students. Students can use this rubric to self-assess their writing. Teachers can use this rubric to grade student writing.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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4 Figurative Language Lessons for Middle Schoolers
Students will use simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and personification in interactive activities. These four easy to implement activities fully engage students using kinesthetic and verbal modalities.
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6th - 8th
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Writing and Speaking Prompts and Topics
No one should have to "prompt" teachers to grab this resource! It's that good. This warm-up activity page provides 65 topics that encourage students to construct a paragraph to improve their writing skills, exchange papers for editing experiences, and/or share-out their paragraphs as a speech performance. Some subjects are specific; others contain only a word which permits participants to take their own path of creative thought. It's a win-win for those who want students to hone their writing an
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Grades:
5th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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HOOK or Lead for Personal Narrative Worksheet
Students can use this worksheet with another product that I have listed (HOOK/Lead Engaging or Boring - powerpoint). This is where they can assess the hooks/leads based on what has been taught.
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Also included in:Â Hook/Lead for Personal Narrative BUNDLE
Self and Peer Edit Checklists
A helpful checklist for students to both self edit and peer edit their written work. Format is mostly generic and will fit a variety of writing types. Has an emphasis on Six Trait Writing.
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6th - 8th
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The Three Paragraph Essay
This lesson includes everything your students need to write a three paragraph essay, in an engaging, interactive lesson. The teacher’s page contains an overall explanation of the content and structure of a three paragraph essay, to be read to students. The student pages have questions to answer, to ensure understanding, partner exercises to engage students, prewriting activities, a rough draft page, editing activities and a final draft page. Writing a three paragraph essay is an essential skill
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Narrative Writing Packet
Middle School students will benefit from the criteria and graphic organizers included in this packet when writing their own narratives.
Included is:
-Learning Target
-Criteria with boxes to check when completed
-Protagonist development graphic organizer
-Conflict development graphic organizer
-Plot development graphic organizer
-Editing/Revising checklist with examples to highlight criteria in student work
-Peer assessment letter
Grades:
6th - 8th
"A Christmas Carol" Choice Assignment
Let your students show their creativity while showing their understanding of the play "A Christmas Carol". Give your students a choice of the range of mini-assignments found on this choice board.
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Grades:
6th - 7th
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Show Not Tell Description Writing Revision Part 2
This lesson plan and handout guides students through the process to revise "tell" sentences from their creative writing draft into "show" descriptive sentences.
Download file includes teacher directions on how to use this handout as well as directions for a suggested activity that should be completed prior this handout.
Note: This Part 2 of a longer Show Not Tell lesson. Part 1, also available for download, has students revise teacher-provided "Tell" sentences into longer "show" descriptions.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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