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Middle school creative writing task cards
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
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Also included in: Learning Stations Mega Bundle
HUGE Rocks and Minerals Unit - 3 Types of Rocks - Rock Cycle - 5E Lesson Plans
This HUGE rocks and minerals unit begins by teaching students the difference between a rock and a mineral, and ends with teaching students the 3 types of rocks and the rock cycle. 5E lessons are included, along with a rocks and minerals review game, task cards, narrative writing activity, study guide, assessment, key, anchor charts/posters, and more! This resource will save you hours of work because everything is all planned out in my easy-to-follow, very detailed, lesson plans. Please click the
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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NGSS:
4-ESS1-1
Narrative Writing Prompts - Pictures & Photos Cards to Inspire Creative Writing
Narrative Writing Prompts - Pictures & Photos Cards to Inspire Creative Writing: Use these narrative writing photo prompt cards as a remedy for the common "I don't know what to write about" dilemma. This resource includes cards with engaging photos designed to inspire and spark creativity in narrative writing. Students will say goodbye to writer's block and use these visual writing prompts as a springboard for imaginative short stories. Transform your students' writing experience with this r
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS RESOURCE BUNDLE
BEST SELLER! Build-a-Story Creative Writing Card Prompts | Story Elements
❤️ "This is one of the best resources I have purchased from this site. It was so easy for my students to have a purpose in their writing. It tied in nicely to our Story Element unit. After my students created their stories, we invited our administrators in for a "story time."❤️ "This Resource is so much fun! I picked this resource because I really liked the creativity of the characters and their problem/plot. I feel like a lot of thought went into the types of characters, settings, and problem
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Monthly Creative and Critical Thinking Task Cards & Enrichment
OVER 160 enrichment activities for every month of the school year to engage your students in creative and critical thinking. Activities are seasonally based with prompts about traditional holidays, wacky holidays, historical events, and seasonal symbols. Students write, create, categories, make timelines, etc. There are 16 cards per month and a set for each month August through May (there are no June or July sets), making a total of 160 cards! There are a total of 160 task cards in this bundle
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Early Finisher and Enrichment Activities - The ULTIMATE Bundle
280 Daily Writing Prompts w/ Picture - Morning Work - Journal Pages - Task Cards
Tons and tons of Creative Daily Writing Prompts for the ENTIRE School year DIGITAL and PRINTABLE Options. No-Prep / Paperless Morning Work by digitally displaying on Whiteboard as students enter the classroom. Writing Station Center supplied for every month using holiday and month-themed printable task card option. Computer Writing option by using the easy-to-assign Google Classroom and Journal Writing pages. Your students will never tire of these engaging writing prompts and will beg for
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Teambuilding Trivia Icebreaker Game 100 cards
This team building trivia icebreaker game asks students to work in pairs or small groups while they have one minute to list as many answer choices as possible after a prompt is read. Use for:✏️ Fun Fridays✏️ Brain Breaks✏️ Sub Plans/ Rewards after testing✏️ Classroom teambuilding✏️ Back to school icebreaker✏️ Extra time before the bellHow to Play: 1. The teacher reads a "List..." prompt to the class. For example, "List... Movies with a number in its title....GO!" 2. Students have 1 minute to
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6th - 8th
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What If ? Task Cards for Creative Thinking, Cause and Effect, and Journals
A set of *52* creative "What If" prompts to stretch thinking and encourage kids to think outside the box. These are perfect task cards to use for teaching cause and effect, to use as journaling prompts, with early finishers, and for students to think critically and creatively.
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Early Finisher Task Card Bundle
Creative Thinking A-Z Task Cards
Think It Through: Weekly Activities for Creative and Critical Thinking
Monthly Creative &
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Early Finisher and Enrichment Activities - The ULTIMATE Bundle
Narrative Writing Learning Stations
NARRATIVE WRITING STATIONS: This bundle of writing stations is designed to take your students through a process-based approach to creating a piece of narrative writing. You can use all of them for an exploration of narration that takes you a week or more OR you can pick and choose to use them one at a time.In this resource you will find a variety of options:PHOTO PROMPT LEARNING STATIONS These can be used to help students find inspiration for telling a narrative. They can be used for writing pro
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Also included in: Secondary ELA Mega Bundle
Poetry Task Cards to Practice Creative Writing & Language Skills
44 Poetry Task Cards to Practice Common Core Narrative (Creative) Writing and Language Skills
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE and in Poetry Resources Bundle, Volume 2.
My Poetry Task Cards are based on my best-selling Writing Poetry: 40 Formulas to Help Students. I offer some new exercises and Common Core alignment in this task-card format that teachers can use year after year. Students of a wide age range can benefit from writing poetry because it
Grades:
3rd - 10th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for K. Cook
Finding & Teaching THEME: Task Cards & More w/ Bonus POWER POINT
A FAVORITE WITH MY STUDENTS! THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS MY ORIGINAL "TEACHING THEME AND MORE" PLUS POWER POINT VERSION OF PRODUCT! (BOTH LOCATED IN CONVENIENT ZIP FOLDER). I HAVE COMPLETELY REFORMATTED FOR A BETTER VIEW ON SMART BOARD AND HAVE ADDED ADDITIONAL COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS FOR EACH PASSAGE.These short stories are HIGH INTEREST, realistic fiction, written with an identifiable THEME. I wrote them for the purpose of students to gain confidence with understanding and identifying the tricky
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Also included in: COMPARING MYTHS, FINDING THEME & MUCH MORE! ELA MEGA BUNDLE !
Descriptive Writing Task Cards - Adding Details to Stretch Sentences
It can be difficult to get students to write descriptive sentences, but these task cards can help spice up their writing! They will stretch a sentence by starting with one that is short and simple and adding descriptive words and specific details to make it more interesting and more precise. Also very helpful for ESL Students! For even more fun activities to spice up writing, try this Descriptive Writing Activity Bundle.⭐️ What you get with this resource:40 printable ask cards2 paperless options
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4th - 8th, Adult Education
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Scary Story Writing 101 (Interactive or Distance Learning)
Scary Story Writing 101Scary Story Writing 101 is an entertaining and effective way to review narrative story elements. Students use photos - embedded with single-line prompts - to write creepy stories they’ll want to share. This is, without question, one of my students’ favorite narrative units of all time. Students will...…use contrasting settings to create a mood, …design a “something’s not right” event or character, and…surprise readers with a heart-stopping“Uh-Oh” Moment. What do I get? 3
Grades:
5th - 10th
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Early Finisher Task Cards for Junior High Students, Middle School ELA Activities
Task Cards for middle school or junior high students are perfect for early finishers, warm-ups, time fillers, journal entries, write-pair-shares, sub assignments & extra credit!The PDF file includes 11 pages of black and white printables (total of 43 task cards--4 per page).The task cards include a variety of activities, including writing prompts and graphic organizers (both short and long activities). All topics are relevant and grade-appropriate for 6th-9th grade students. Teachers can c
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Halloween Writing Prompts: Creative Narrative Writing Spooky Story Starters
Set a spooky mood in your middle or high school ELA classroom this October with these chilling Halloween story starter writing prompts. Get your students writing for enjoyment while also revising and editing their work to meet the rigor of the Common Core Narrative Writing Standards.This resource features 24 engaging story starters, also known as narrative leads, that you can use in a variety of ways. Don't feel like grading writing? Have students use these as impromptu speech topics. Students c
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6th - 9th
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Task Card Stations for Editing Narrative Writing
When writing stories in class, students often need help with the drafting and editing process. Once they have a first rough draft, use these editing task card stations to help guide them with perfecting their writing. **NOTE: Students must have written a whole story before you use these stations. They should come to class with their stories at hand, and have them with them as they journey through the various stations. CONTENTSPOSTERSThere are four stations for editing included, and for each one
Grades:
6th - 10th
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24 Creative Thinking Task Cards - 3 Reasons Why - Lateral Thinking
Use these 24 creative thinking task cards to challenge your students' critical thinking and lateral thinking skills! For best results, encourage students to come up with creative, yet plausible answers. You may also want to use these cards for sentence writing practice by requiring students to answer in complete and error-free sentences. Another option is to use the cards in groups and have students brainstorm answers verbally.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:24 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-line
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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IMPROV GAMES with IMPROV PROMPT CARDS BUNDLE (16 sets! Heaps of Improv Games!)
I have compiled DRAMA TRUNK improv cards and games for endless improv prompts. These versatile cards can be used in so many ways and are a MUST HAVE improvisation resource. THIS IMPROV BUNDLE INCLUDES:IMPROV SCENE STARTERS (here)ANIMALISTICS Characterisation Activities + Animal Family Cards (here)SOCIAL SITUATIONS Improv Cards and Improv Activities (here)SCENE THEMES Improvisation Cards and Improvisation Games (here)GROUP FREEZES Improv Cards and Teaching Activities (here)DRAMA SHOES Improvisati
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Story Starters Creative Writing Prompts
Looking for a FUN and ENGAGING way to captivate your students' interest and enhance their writing skills? Look no further!
Have students who struggle with getting started when writing? Tired or hearing, "but I don't know what to write about!"? Well then, this is the product for you!
"Story Starters" are 24 writing task cards that provide students with the beginning sentence of a story and let their imaginations do the rest!
10-page packet includes:
Teacher directions
24 Prompt Task Cards
Brai
Grades:
1st - 6th
Opinion Writing Prompts with Sentence Starters and Rubric for 3rd 4th 5th
Engage your 3rd 4th & 5th grade opinion writers with 16 opinion writing prompts that include an anchor chart, opinion writing sentence starters, graphic organizers, writing paper, a helpful opinion writing checklist, and easy to follow lesson plans for you, the educator.Great for struggling writers as it includes scaffolded graphic organizers with sentence starter options.Explore the preview for more details!Teach your students how to effectively persuade the reader while engaging them with
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Cause and Effect
Cause and Effect: 56 pages - this Common Core aligned unit is packed with fun and useful ideas that will help them identify cause and effect relationships. Activities were carefully chosen to keep your students excited and engaged. 24 picture cards and recording sheets were NEWLY included to help your students have better understanding about the lesson.
Includes:
32 Cause and Effect Task Cards
24 Cause and Effect Picture Cards
2 Task Cards Recording Sheets
Cause and Effect Introduction Tips
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
The Writing Revolution Task Cards BUNDLE
Like many other Montessorians, I have fallen in love with The Hochman Method but have struggled to incorporate it into my Upper-Elementary Montessori environment. I created my own task cards to solve the problem!These cards are designed based on The Writing Revolution's tried and true practice activities and can lay the foundation for strong sentence construction and high quality writing. I have tried to keep the sentence work topical to my classroom and region (New Orleans, LA) and to interweav
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Narrative Writing Prompts: TASK CARDS
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Students often require a starting point for writing narrative essays or stories. These task cards provide them with that starting point and aim to inspire students to write great stories.
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Task Cards: There are 40 task cards (10 pages / 4 on a page)
Elements of Literature – Informational Handout: This reference page covers many e
Grades:
6th - 10th
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PICK A PROJECT EARLY FINISHER CHALLENGE CARDS
'Pick a Project’ is a display that includes 30 early finisher challenge cards. Your students can go to the display and pick one of these creative writing tasks if they’re finished their work early or need an extension activity! The resource includes a ‘Pick a Project’ display title, as well as 30 colourful challenge cards, each about half the size of an A4 page. ✰ If you have any further questions or requests, please fill out the Q&A form below, send us a message on Instagram @teacherteacher
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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