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Free creative writing resources for Microsoft Word
*Student Project* Design Your Own School
The end of the school year is quickly approaching and if your students are similar to mine, they are getting extra anxious for summer break! I created this engaging student project to help keep my students focused now that all of the state testing is completed and our ELAR curriculum is coming to an end.
This project is a creative writing assignment. Students are designing their own school using a "School Handbook" template. I also attached my cover page and rubric that I gave my students to u
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3rd - 8th
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Mini Bloom Ball Book Report
When I was looking to have my students create Bloom ball book reports I could not find any with the questions already in the circle. I also couldn't find any that would allow me to type my questions inside the circle. So, I decided to create my own. I thought others might be going through the same so I decided to make it available in TPT for free.
I will also be posting editable templates of the Bloom Ball at a later date.
*Editable version now available for a fee.
This could be given for home
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Kid-Friendly Narrative Writing Rubric
This is a rubric that uses kid-friendly terms for commonly expected standards in a narrative writing. It uses the visual of ice cream scoops to illustrate the scores of 4, 3, 2, or 1.
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K - 3rd
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Beginning of the Year Activity - Name Glyph
This document provides directions for students to follow as a beginning of the year activity. After completing the activity, students can exchange drawings and write and short essay about the other student from what they learn through the drawing. Students enjoy this activity and the pictures can be used for open house as a visual for parents. This is a really good ice-breaker activity that also allows you time to get the beginning of the year paperwork completed.
Created by: Mandy McQuade
Begin
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1st - 8th
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If I had $100... Creative Writing Prompt
Lovely Lauren says,
You've got to grab this great writing prompt for the 100th day of school! To celebrate all things 100, I thought giving your students $100 dollars would suffice! :)
Brainstorm with children what they would do with $100 dollars and just see what kind of creative responses you get!
Your kids will have to chance to have their face on a $100 bill! They could draw themselves, or you can take a picture of them and attach it for some added pizzaz!
This creative writing activity
Grades:
K - 12th
Core Aligned Creative Writing Rubric
Fully editable!
Flexible for assessing many forms of creative writing.
Memoirs, short stories, Flash Fiction, Microfiction, Personal Narratives
Core aligned to 9-10 Common Core, but easily adjustable to all middle grades.
Can be used as a teacher grade tool, peer-review grade tool, or self-assessment grade tool
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Roll and Build Silly Sentences
A fun task to practice various tenses.All you need is this editable template (which you can complete yourself, typing the necessary verbs, coming up with famous characters, places and time) and 2 dice. Divide the students into pairs or mini groups of 3-4 people. Each pair/group will need 2 dice and a table filled with the necessary information (see the photo).Children take turns rolling both dice at the same time, choose the appropriate parts of the sentence and make up funny sentences orally or
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2nd - 7th, Adult Education
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Film Strip Graphic Organizer for Sequencing, for Writing, Reading and ESL
This film strip graphic organizer is perfect for sequencing events in a story for ELA activities - suitable for all elementary grades and ESL students.
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Grades:
PreK - 5th
Simile and Metaphor Worksheet
Students write on the line whether the sentence contains a simile or a metaphor. Includes idioms, quotes from authors, lyrics from songs, and simple sentences. Good exposure to this form of figurative language before requiring students to write their own.
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Not Grade Specific
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Lucy Calkins Personal Narrative Rough Draft Packet
2nd Grade
This should take about 5 or 6 days to complete.
I use this for my Writer's Workshop based on the Lucy Calkins series. They way she was presenting the lessons did not work for me but I have found great sucess by using these packets.
Assign one page per day. That way the student can focus on one topic at a time. I take the time to conference with each student after they have completed them and make corrections on the paper.
When the packet is done, I have the students write all three
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
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Simple Sentences and Sentence Fluency
The is the first in a series of explanation worksheets on sentence fluency and sentence construction. It introduces six techniques showing students how to write more advanced simple sentence openings. It begins by stating which words should be avoided when opening simple sentences; then, it models six techniques for creating more engaging and advancved simple sentence openings (e.g. use of adverbs, participle phrases and infinitives). The recommended use is as a drafting sheet after students ha
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Writing Checklist Bookmark
A simple writing checklist for students that uses words and pictures.
- Capital letters at the start of sentences
- Lowercase letters within sentences
- Finger Spaces
- Word Wall Words
- Details
- Punctuation at the end of sentences
- Reading over writing to check for clarity
- Neat printing that is easy to read
How I Use It:
1) Laminate one for each student and use a dry erase marker to check off after daily writing tasks
2) Have students self-assess their writing
3) Have students peer-asses
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Descriptive Writing Rubric
This editable scoring rubric is especially constructed to evaluate students' descriptive writings and compositions. four categories: outstanding, competent, developing, needs improvementparameters: ideas, sensory details, use of modifiers, organization, paragraphing, coherence, grammarcan be customized into another assessment toolusable as a perfect marking schemesupports peer to peer learning
Grades:
4th - 7th
Compare and Contrast Essay Rubric - 4th Grade
This rubric was created to assess student informational compare/contrast essays on 2 plants or 2 animals that they researched for their ecosystem. Could be easily adapted for any compare/contrast essay.
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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For my Future Self -Time Capsule Activity - 1st Week of School - Free & Editable
Give this activity to your students to complete the first week of school.Return it to them the last week of school.They love to see how they have progressed throughout the year!This is a free and editable download. Enjoy!
Grades:
6th - 12th
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I AM - Poem Writing Using Similes
FREE poetry writing template for students
Students write a I AM poem about themselves using similes.
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2nd - 8th
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Hyperbole: A Long List of examples
This document is packed full of examples of hyperbole. Give this to students for an introductory lesson to hyperbole. Use it for a study guide, or have students write their own sentences with hyperbole using the list of examples for ideas. Definition of hyperbole is included at the top of page.
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3rd - 12th
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Peer Editing Checklist (Narrative Writing)
This checklist is intended for use in writer's workshop. Students can use the checklist to guide them through the peer editing process. Document is in Word so you can edit.
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2nd - 6th
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Free Personification Worksheet - Grades 6,7,8
Here is a FREE worksheet on personification. The worksheet gives students several examples of personification and asks them to identify what is being personified and to describe the meaning of the figurative language. It can be used as homework, extra practice or a quiz.
I will soon be posting some fun cut and paste figurative language activities and a more formal figurative language test so if you like this handout, visit my store!
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Mindys-Masterpieces
Grades:
5th - 8th
Figurative Language Quiz
A great FREE quiz/check-up.
This is a fabulous evaluation too to use after you complete the Figurative Language - Interactive SmartBoard lesson I created.
Be sure to go check out the lesson this accompanies:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Figurative-Language-Interactive-1418491
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3rd - 6th
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Personal Narrative Rubric used with Lucy Caulkin's Writing Program
This simple rubric can be used to assess students' personal narratives. It is organized to assess students' ideas, content, organization, and mechanics and has plenty of space for teacher comments. This was used with the Lucy Caulkin's Writing Program.
Personal Narrative Rubric by Kate Hartley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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Personification, "A Day in the Life" sample story 2nd 3rd 4th grade
A 2-page personification story for 2nd, 3rd or 4th grade. This is a "day in the life" sample story about an electric pencil sharpener's daily experiences in the classroom. For a lesson on personification, my students choose an object in our classroom and write "a day in the life" personification stories from the object's point of view. This works best for 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade.
Thank you for the feedback, if you get a chance! :)
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Identifying Tone and Mood
This instructional handout is a warm-up exercise for identifying tone and mood in writing. Students look at five sentences and look for tone words that create the mood of the sentence.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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The Raven by Edgar Alan Poe
This is a fun small group activity that can be used in grades 8 through 12. This is an assignment that requires deep thinking and that the students actually enjoy. I usually introduce this activity in October to set the Halloween theme. Divide the class up into small groups of a minimum of 2 students but no more than 4 students. Give each group one of more verses of Edgar Alan Poe’s poem The Raven. Have the students totally and thoroughly translate the verse(s) into today’s modern language.
Grades:
8th - 11th
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