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Middle school creative writing resources for Microsoft PowerPoint
Holiday of the Day Writing Prompts Bundle - National Holidays - Morning Meeting
Use this BUNDLE of 366 writing prompts for morning meetings, work on writing, or as a writing warm-up to hook your students each day with a fun holiday that they get to write about. No longer will you hear the words, "I don't know what to write about!" because you will have a writing prompt for every single day featuring a holiday of that day. The resource consists of national, international, world, and fun holidays for every day. Don't like one of the ones I chose? Then use the editable slides
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3rd - 6th
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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
Picture of the Day: 180 Writing Prompt Photos to inspire Creative Writing Daily!
180 Creative & Funny Daily Picture of the Day picture writing prompts: This Photo of the Day Photo Writing Prompt resource presentation contains 180 funny, silly, cute & crazy visual writing prompt photos that your students will love! 180 Picture of the Day photos gives you enough for every day of the school year! I use these writing prompts with pictures as Morning Meeting slides to get students ready for a fun day of learning. These pictures can also be used for: Morning Meeting activi
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1st - 6th
Short Story Creative Writing (Roll-a-Story)
Introductory PowerPoint covering the elements of a short story plus silly story starters for creative writing in a "Roll-a-Story" format. These four "Roll-a-Story" cards allow for 864 different story combinations! Students first roll a die to select a character, then roll to select a setting and one more roll to select the conflict. Then let the creative writing fun begin.I suggest laminating the "Roll-a-Story" cards. Students only need to use a card briefly, for three rolls of the die. The
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3rd - 6th
Teaching Symbolism and Allegory - Introduction Activity & PowerPoint
Teaching symbolism can be tricky, but symbolism activities like this one HOOK your students and help them engage with any text. This is a sweet introduction to symbolism that your students will remember long after the candy is gone.⭐️ I use this with “Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe, but it is not text-specific. You can use it with any short story or novel or as a stand-alone lesson. Your resource for teaching symbolism includes:An anticipatory set using Tootsie Roll Pops (or Blow Po
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7th - 10th
Art Sub Lessons - Silly Sandwich Art Lesson Art Sub Plans .pdf .pptx
Do you need elementary or middle school art sub plans ASAP? How about a fun, no-prep, fully scripted art activity that uses simple materials? Would you like an easy to use drawing lesson you can keep in your emergency sub folder? If the answer to any of these is, "yes," check out this art sub lesson called, "Silly Sandwich."In this activity, students use their imaginations to create a drawing of a silly sandwich. It may be presented as a projected Powerpoint or a printed out .pdf and shown close
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1st - 6th
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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Literary Elements BUNDLE (To use with ANY novel or to teach narrative writing)
Resources for teaching literary elements (narration, plot, setting, characterisation etc.) Powerpoint presentations, detailed lesson plans, informational hand outs, worksheets, posters and more!
Currently studying a novel in class? Looking for resources to help your students analyze literary elements more effectively? Or, are you teaching writing? Looking for resources to help students develop plot, characters and setting more authentically?Either way, these resources will assist you!
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7th - 10th
200 Daily Bell Work Writing Prompts (Grades 4-6)
Be prepared to teach your Grade 4-6 Language class with a year's worth of bell work writing prompts for Google Slides™! This resource is perfect for a soft start to the Language block and for creating a daily routine for your students to follow.This resource includes 200 writing prompts themed for each day of the week to spark student interest and promote engagement. Every prompt comes with an example of how students should organize their journals, including partial sentences to get students sta
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4th - 6th
Also included in: Grade 4 Ontario 2023 Language Bundle (FULL YEAR)
Class Recipe Book (Christmas, Holidays, Mothers / Fathers Day, Thanksgiving)
DIY Class Recipe Book
Perfect for special holidays, like Christmas, Thanksgiving, Hannukah, Fathers' Day, Mothers' Day!
Create your own class recipe book by interviewing your students on their favourite special dish to eat with their families! OR, have students complete the recipe pages themselves! See the product photos and preview for more!
For younger students, this often results in hilarious recipes (see below!)
For older students, this is a good activity on writing clear instructions a
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PreK - 6th
200 Daily Bell Work Writing Prompts (Grades 7/8)
Be prepared to teach your Grade 7/8 Language class with a year's worth of bell work writing prompts for Google Slides™! This resource is perfect for a soft start to the Language block and for creating a daily routine for your students to follow.This resource includes 200 writing prompts themed for each day of the week to spark student interest and promote engagement. The writing prompts also contain three sub-questions for those students who find it difficult to brainstorm ideas. With prompts an
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7th - 8th
Also included in: Grade 7 Ontario 2023 Language Bundle (FULL YEAR)
Daily Writing Prompts Bundle National Days Morning Work Journal Writing Center
Get a full year's worth of FUN and engaging ways to keep your students writing! This ready-to-use popular monthly writing prompt resource is just what your classroom needs to spark student interest levels daily!Daily writing allows your students to be challenged to think creatively, critically, and expressively about a wide range of topics on each day of the month. These prompts offer something for everyone; whether it be writing personal narratives, informational pieces, reflecting on important
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3rd - 6th
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Movie Review Writing - Presentation and Activities for Writing a Film Review
Movie Review Writing - Presentation and Activities for Writing a Film Review: This movie review writing lesson is a comprehensive resource that covers all aspects of teaching students how to write a compelling movie review. With detailed presentation to guide the lesson and a variety of informational handouts and graphic organizers, students will have everything they need to successfully analyze and critique any film. The resource systematically breaks down the film review writing process, provi
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8th - 11th
Zendoodle Hand Self Portraits Art Lesson Back to School Middle School Art Lesson
DescriptionStudents discover who they are through art in this hand-self portrait lesson! Get to know your students as they write about their beliefs and who they are as a person. Students will use the creative process to design and apply elements using repetition and variety in their handprint piece. Students create their own self-portrait using their handprint, Zentangle designs, and a narrative describing who they are. The art lesson centers around creating a piece of artwork based on a core
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5th - 12th
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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
Narrative/Memoir Writing Brainstorming/Generating Ideas: Memory BINGO Activity
Help your writers generate ideas for writing a narrative, memoir, or scene with this interactive "Memory Bingo" game that will get students sharing and collecting memories!During this activity, students will use a list of 50 prompts to add various memories to a BINGO board. During BINGO, students will share memories and add more to their treasure trove of ideas after hearing their classmates' memories. After the activity, students will reflect on their top 5 memories and begin writing about one.
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5th - 12th
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
Poem of the Week Collection: a YEAR of Multimedia Poetry!
Historically speaking, poems started out as stories intended to be read aloud. Share poems the way they were MEANT to be read - with audio and video readings – while still achieving rigorous reading and creative writing!This Poem of the Week Collection can be used in multiple ways, whether you want... • more consistent poetry stretched throughout the year,• to scaffold students up to more difficult poems, • to compress these poems into a shorter unit in April, or • to make poetry come alive alon
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Poetry Activity Bundle: Reading & Writing Poems in Secondary ELA
Remembering the Heroes of September 11th, 2001 **Distance Learning**
Teaching young children about the events of September 11th always seems difficult to me. I am always torn somewhere between wanting to protect their innocence and wanting to teach them about the history of our country, all of the good and the bad. I created this resource to inform students about the events of September 11th, but more importantly I wanted to focus on the positive; the heroes. I decided to focus on 6 heroes and their stories. This file has been updated to support distance learning
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2nd - 6th
Creative Writing Unit: Short Story Activity | Prompts, Rubric, Graphic Organizer
Need a no-prep Creative Writing Unit activity for middle & high school? This Short Story creative writing lesson plan is a unit activity with guided writing prompts, graphic organizers, and a PowerPoint!This creative writing lesson does that and more! Your students will be guided through the creative writing process of creating a short story with fun writing prompts and detailed guidelines and instructions for each part of plot development. Also included is a fun short story PowerPoint Prese
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5th - 12th
Daily Trivia: 100 Fun Daily Facts of the Day Funny & Educational | Kids Trivia
Trivia Facts for Kids: This Daily Trivia: Fun Daily Facts You Didn't Know! resource contains 100 funny, silly, cute & crazy fun fact of the day for kids that your students will love! Use these facts and real-life photos as Morning Meeting daily slides and activities to inspire creative writing, to start interesting conversations & research, and to get your kids smiling & learning!I always have a Fact projected on my screen every morning and it is a tradition my students love. They c
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1st - 6th
January Writing Prompts | Morning Meeting | National Holidays | Daily Writing
Use these January daily writing prompts for morning meeting, work on writing, or as a writing warm-up to hook your students each day with a fun holiday that they get to write about. No longer will you hear the words, "I don't know what to write about!" because you will have a writing prompt for every single day featuring a holiday of that day.The resource consists of national, international, world, and fun holidays for every day. Don't like one of the ones I chose? Then use the editable slides t
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3rd - 6th
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Middle School Art, High School Art Project Visual Journal, Altered Book Lesson
Visual journals, or altered books, are a great continuous project for your art class. This art assignment is perfect for middle school or high school age students. The visual journals can serve as a weekly, monthly, or yearlong project. I teach this visual journal assignment in every class, every year. Every Friday, students have a visual journal day. They get to work in their altered books or to catch up on a project if they have been absent or have fallen behind. It gives my students space to
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Poetry Bundle Writing, Reading, & Understanding Poetry
Poetry Resources for Reading, Writing, and Understanding Poetry, Volume 1
This (and ALL of my poetry resources) IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
Poetry Resources Bundle, Volume 2 is also available; it includes my newer resources that are aligned with the Common Core State Standards.
This bundle contains my resources for teaching poetry, which includes teaching poetic devices and figurative language, reading/interpreting poetry, and writing original po
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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