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High school creative writing resources for Google Apps
Princess Bride Film Study, Movie Guide + Activities, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
William Goldman’s The Princess Bride is the perfect fairy tale to use with secondary students, but it’s not enough to just hit “play” on the DVD. Instead, add a layer of rigor to your students’ study of The Princess Bride with this packet of print-and-teach materials that will take four days to complete while entertaining and challenging your teens.Materials in this 18-page film study include (PDF + Google Drive versions of student handouts):• A suggested lesson procedure page with calendar (1 p
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8th - 11th
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The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe, Interactive Poetry Activity, PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Make Edgar Allan Poe’s classic poem, “The Raven,” come alive for your students with this 44-slide lecture and five pages of lesson materials that include detailed directions, a full-text version of Poe's gothic poem, links to a high-quality audio version, "Faux Poe" creative writing assignment, and answer key. The interactive lecture (Prezi, PDF, and Google Slides versions included) inspires students to dig back into the text, think critically, and decode Poe’s structure and technique.These mate
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8th - 11th
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Punctuating Dialogue - Embedding Quotations Grammar Worksheets - Quotation Marks
Teach students about punctuating dialogue using these grammar worksheets, games, and activities! Students will learn about embedding quotations and the proper use of quotation marks with this modern and engaging lesson. Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®!Included with these Punctuating Dialogue Grammar Worksheets:✏️ Punctuating Dialogue Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® & Google Slides®✏️ Punctuating Dialogue Informational Handout✏️ Punctuating Dialogue Practice Ac
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6th - 10th
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How Well Do You Know Your Teacher? (Fun End of Year Activity)
This is a fun, no-prep end of year activity to see how well (or not well) your students know you! The students get to come up with creative responses to fun and engaging prompts.Depending on the age of your students, you can pick and choose which slides to assign. For the older kids, I've included prompts related to social media.
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3rd - 12th
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Micro Fiction, Fun Creative Writing, Flash Fiction, PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Micro Fiction – Flash Fiction – Two-Sentence Stories – Sudden Fiction – Twitter TalesWhatever you want to call them, super-short stories are a super-fun way to spend a single class period as you introduce teens to the idea that an entire story can exist within just two sentences.Use this 20-slide overview lecture with eight compelling examples from four different genres (drama, horror, sci fi, and romance) to get your students’ creative wheels turning. (Slide deck is included in Prezi, PDF, and
Grades:
8th - 11th
Figurative Language STATIONS - Group Activities - Print & DIGITAL
Figurative Language Stations with Task Cards: Would you like your students more clear on figurative language and sound devices? Motivate them with this must-have creative STATION work! Now includes a DIGITAL version! You get EIGHT different stations with task cards and inviting student handouts for each. Students identify and analyze figurative language, and then brainstorm to apply their knowledge in imaginative ways. Clear and specific teacher guidelines are provided to make set up and grad
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6th - 9th
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Creative Writing Prompts - Digital Story Starters - Narrative Writing
Spark creativity with this set of engaging, digital story starter writing prompts. Includes 35 unique story starters to inspire your secondary students and help them flex those creative writing muscles! These prompts are ideal for displaying in class and/or sharing with students digitally. ⭐ INCLUDES:PDF versionGoogle Slides version Google Slides version with embedded 10-minute timer⭐ DIGITAL SHARING IDEAS:Post the PDF or Google Slides file in Google Classroom (or your LMS of choice) and let stu
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6th - 10th
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Social Media Templates for ANY text - TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Text
Five 2023 social media templates in both DIGITAL (Google Slides or PowerPoint) and printable versions. These reusable and highly engaging templates for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Messenger are perfect for ANY novel study, creative writing task or even history class!Carefully designed on the 2023 versions of these popular Apps. Also includes editable exemplars to show students what success looks like.Happy teaching :)
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5th - 12th
Also included in: FULL Unit for ANY Novel & Independent Reading (Digital & Print)
Meme Caption Writing Prompts (Fun End of Year Activity)
This Google Slides document includes 30 slides with different memes with text boxes for students to practice their creative writing by coming up with captions for the different pictures. Students love being able to create captions and it really helps with engagement!There is also a blank slide included so you can insert your own pictures as well as individual meme pictures that can be copied and pasted to use in whatever you like at the end of the document.
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3rd - 12th
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Creative Writing Unit Prompts Activities & Projects for Middle + High School
This Creative Writing Workbook includes 25+ different creative writing projects + activities for students to complete! It is designed for grades 6-12 and includes student descriptions, student examples, brainstorming pages, and rubrics for each project!This resource provides teachers with a unique way to present creative writing projects to students. The journal is organized by fiction and non-fiction, and allows students to work independently while simultaneously creating a portfolio of their
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6th - 12th
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Song Lyric Analysis Worksheets for Figurative Language in Songs and More!
Do your students struggle with figurative language and poetic elements because they just don't "get" poetry? Connect it with something they can relate to - music and songs! These engaging song lyric analysis activities will not only give your students a better understanding of figurative language and literary devices, but will also build critical thinking skills through interpretation and creative expression.Topics covered: In the mini-lesson and activities, the following 9 elements of figurativ
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6th - 10th, Adult Education
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Memoir Writing: Using Mentor Texts for Student Voice and Assessment in ELA
Reading and writing memoir are powerful ways to have students experiment with narrative writing and have a chance to explore some groundbreaking nonfiction reading. Whether your students are in the midst of a literature circles unit or wrapping up a great novel, have you considered adding a memoir writing element to your curriculum?This mini unit is designed around a metaphor: the footprint. They’re what we leave behind us, no matter how muddy, messy, small, or imperfect, and that’s our legac
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8th - 11th
Halloween Narrative Writing & Learning Stations
HALLOWEEN WRITING ACTIVITIES: Halloween is the perfect opportunity to engage your students in a creative writing assignment. This resource takes students through a process-based approach that has them experiment with various elements of fiction. They will be building so many narrative writing skills and having a great deal of fun while they do! Be sure to check out the preview for a detailed overview.This resource includes:✅ Learning stations for experimenting with point of view, setting, atmos
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Learning Stations Mega Bundle
Mood and Tone: DIGITAL Interactive Activities with Google Slides
There are tons of mood and tone activities on Teachers Pay Teachers, but this is for those of you going DIGITAL! This is perfect for 1:1 classrooms. These activities stem from some common misconceptions my own 6th graders had about mood and tone. I found a lot of them confused characters' feelings with the mood of the text. Also, they have a hard time determining how tone and mood are different. These will help them with that!The activities are as follows:Students view a clip from This is Us to
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Lisa S.
High School Creative Writing Complete Semester Curriculum and Materials Bundle
This bundle includes a full semester curriculum map; six three-week, standards-based unit plans; and all instructional materials for supporting high school Creative Writing students as they generate original works of fiction. Not only does this bundle provide everything a teacher needs to carry out the curriculum to fidelity, but it substantially reduces prep work so teachers may invest more time developing positive relationships with students and offering personalized support as they work to a
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9th - 12th
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Six Word Memoir Unit l memoir project
Six word memoirs are a unique and impactful genre for students to explore. You can say a lot in one line, if you give that one line a lot of thought. This six word memoir pack gives you a chance to introduce and experiment with the genre as well as extend it into your novel study and research units. After all, if a person can write a six word memoir about their own life, they can also write one about the life of a character in a novel or a person they’ve researched. Inside this packet, you’ll fi
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7th - 10th
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Goodbye 2023 - 2024 Breakup Letter - New Years Creative Writing Activity
Ring in the new year by saying GOOD RIDDANCE to last year! This is an engaging, fun creative writing activity that involves writing a break up letter to 2023. This is a Google Drive product. Included:- Google slideshow with instructions of letter- Dear 2023, break up letter templateIf you have read the information here and read the how to use documents and still have questions, please feel free to email me! carlismitha@gmail.com*******************************************************************C
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5th - 12th
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Bell Ringer for Middle School ELA Classroom Journal Prompts- 50 Prompts
**Updated 2022** Question of the Days are freestyle journal entries set to music. In my experience, this style of writing helps students feeling more comfortable with their ideas and the process of writing. As a bonus, when you read their journals, you learned so much about your students which will strengthen relationships and connections. This download includes:Colorful Google Slides Presentation: 50 colorful slides to help you stay organized. Questions are split into 10 sets (5 questions in ea
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6th - 9th
Writing Lessons: Word Choice
Teach your students to think carefully about their language choices: Each lesson in this bundle provides you with everything you need to teach students about word choice, tone, imagery, and figurative language. From the start of the lesson to the final assessment, the lessons hook students then move them through activities that focus on active, rather than passive learning. There are six different lessons in this bundle, all designed to show students how word choice affects meaning, whether they
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Secondary ELA Mega Bundle
Short Mentor Texts and Sentences for Secondary Writing & Close Reading
Short Mentor Texts for Middle & High School: Showing, not telling, is important not only for effective writing, but also for effective writing instruction. Mentor sentences and longer mentor texts are perfect for this, as they provide exemplars that students can use to examine author craft. Once they identify what good writers do, they will imitate the techniques in their own writing. These mentor texts, then, can be used to build skills for both close reading and writing. Be sure to check t
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7th - 12th
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Writing a Graphic Novel FULL UNIT - Print and Digital Lessons Included!
Want to switch up your narrative writing unit? Try Graphic Novels! Not only do students get to express themselves through writing and tell a story, but they get to illustrate it too! Graphic novels have all of the same things needed in a narrative or story, so they are still learning the necessary concepts, but also doing something that feels like fun!This Writing a Graphic Novel Unit includes: 8 Full Lessons including:Graphic Novel Assignment Sheet and Grading RubricWhat is a Graphic Novel Less
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4th - 10th
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Haiku Poetry Lesson - How to Write a Haiku Assignment Haiku Templates and Rubric
Teach students the history of haiku and about writing haiku poetry with this haiku poem workshop! This lesson includes haiku templates and a haiku rubric for assessment. Suitable for distance learning and Google Classroom®!Included with this Writing Haiku Poetry Workshop:✏️ Haiku Poetry Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Slides®✏️ Guided Note for Haiku Poetry Lesson - Digital & Print✏️ Haiku Writing Assignment Instructions - Digital & Print✏️ Differentiated Haiku T
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4th - 10th
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Get to Know You Activities Vol. 1 : Letter to Your Teacher, Partner Interviews
Back to school in ELA can be incredibly stressful, but also so much fun! Take some of the planning pressure off by using this great bundle of six lesson plans/activities for the first week of school. This bundle includes my SIX FAVORITES. Did you know that this product now has a Volume 2 version? Check it out!What does this product include?-Six ready to print OR edit and individualize lessons-Compatibility with Google Drive and Google Classroom-Over 35 pages of lessons, examples, rubrics, an
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8th - 12th
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Memoir Writing Personal Narrative Writing Workshop Mini Lessons Print Digital
Print and Digital Formats! No planning needed! These 20 easy-to-use mini lessons have everything you need to make teaching memoir writing a snap! In six weeks, your students will go from generating an idea to writing a thoughtful personal narrative. Because the lessons are already finished, you'll have time to work with them every step of the way! Here's teachers are saying about my mini lessons:"I love how this resource breaks down each step of the process for students to make it more manag
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6th - 9th
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