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Creative writing resources for Microsoft Word and for GATE
Personal Statement & Hero's Journey Writing Assignment & Rubric
Personal Statement & Hero's Journey Writing Assignment & Rubric--This personal statement assignment is based on the classical Hero's Journey. All students are on their own personal journey & the juniors and seniors are all working on personal statements, so I combined the two. This standards-based writing assignment includes two writing prompts, a scoring rubric, and a peer editing checklist. This assignment can be differentiated for several levels, and has been used/modified succe
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9th - 12th
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Sonnet Writing Lesson and Evaluation Made Easy
Do you find yourself teaching sonnet writing, but feel a bit lost? This is a lesson guide that will make instructing help your students find joy in putting together their own tricky 14 line poem about something THEY love! Samples and evaluation brings multiple literary elements into the lesson, so that your class feel empowered by the pen, or laptop, for sure!
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Not Grade Specific
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CCSS:
Creative Problem Solving
This original contains 31 creative problem solving activities using only supplies that can be fount in your classroom supply closet. Excellent opportunities for group work while allowing students with individual talents to shine. I was even contacted by a teacher on a US base in Germany on how to obtain the book. WOW!!!
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1st - 12th
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Second Grade Enrichment Choice Board (12 Creative Activities for School or Home)
This will be helpful in using for Enrichment in Whole Groups or Identified Gifted Students. It can also be used for Distance Learning to encourage creativity, elaboration, creative thinking, and imagination.
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1st - 3rd
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Enrichment Kindergarten Choice Board (12 Engaging Activities for School or Home)
Use this product for school or at home learning to enact imaginative and creative learning. Can be used for Alternative Method of Instruction with parent guidance. Allows for creative thinking, elaboration, originality, and imagination to spark new ideas.
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PreK - K
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Brainstorming Activity- Print and Go Sheets
Easy to use and ready-made! This worksheet guides students through the process of planning out their essay or story. It organizes their thoughts into a easy to read chart. On this chart, students will plan out their story by answering the following questions:
- WHERE does your story take place? (setting)
- WHEN does your story happen? (setting)
- WHO is going to be in your story? (characters)
- WHAT is happening in your story? (plot/conflict)
- HOW does your story end? (resolution)
This chart
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1st - 8th
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Awesome Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi Activity
This Qin Dynasty activity brings Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi to life for students! This obituary activity is a fabulous writing activity that ties into the ancient China curriculum. There is a creative component as well, including artwork and advertisements for students to create. All of your students will be engaged during this project!
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5th - 9th
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Elements of a Short Story-Planning template for Students
This outline template can be used when planning a short story. It also includes a quick activity where you can teach the elements of a short story (conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution) prior to beginning the outline. The visual shows the students how a short story must include all of these elements in order to continually engage the reader. Teacher answer key included.
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5th - 8th
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1st Grade Enrichment Choice Board 1 (12 Activities for School or Home)
This choice board provides enrichment for a student who works at the first grade level. It is great for whole group learning or one student. Wonderful for use at home too as a distance learning tool. The challenges provide ways to be creative, elaborate, and tap into a child's imagination.
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PreK - 2nd
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Writing Brainstorming Activities- Print & Go Worksheets
Easy to use and ready-made! 3 brainstorming activities to help create your next writing project. The first step to creating good written work is to brainstorm ideas of what to write about. These three worksheets guide students through that process, teaching them that ideas can come from real life, from memories, or from their imagination.Included in their packet:• teacher notes on how to use each resource. • A 'How-to' Writing brainstorming sheet (guides students through the brainstorming pr
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2nd - 9th
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Charlotte's Web Novel Study
A great accompaniment to reading Charlotte's web with your class. This workbook includes chapter-by-chapter comprehension activities that engage your students in critical and creative thinking activities to deepen their understanding of this classic novel. Great for grade level students, as well as gifted readers.
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2nd - 5th
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Chromatography
This Chromatography lesson produces a tangible memento of the lesson. It also very visually illustrates the use of chemical dissolution methods as used in CSI investigations. The creative writing assignment attached is so challenging and integrated with the project that students may not even realize they are working!
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Grades:
7th - 8th
Classroom Magazine
This assignment is the perfect enrichment activity, especially for advanced or honors courses. It is project-based and student-led! The project is designed to simulate a real magazine company, with the students taking the roles of chief editors, editors, and writing staff. Students are required to communicate with each other, make decisions together, and to create several different types of writing. Students will actually create a professionally printed magazine using design software of the teac
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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"Wipe That Off the Floor, A Readers Theatre Script;" [*New Book Trailer]
Check out the New Book Trailer (+13 Rating): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE7yE0KDIeo&t=4s[All profits from this work go to the Homeless.] This is a folksy Readers Theater script about a mess that gets out of control. It can accommodate four players, and invites the audience to participate with two of the verses. ["Aids Orphans Remembered"]
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Crafting a Short Story - Character
Crafting a Short Story is a 3-4 week unit that will walk your students through the art and craft of writing a short story. It begins with choosing a topic and then goes through the features of a short story including character, setting, plot, conflict, theme, and editing and revision. Each of the story elements starts with informational text about the element, an opportunity to practice working with that element, and then a way of connecting to their own writing. This can be broken up by pieces,
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4th - 8th
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"Music Words (A Readers Theater Script)" [*New Book Trailer]
Check out the New Book Trailer (+13 Rating): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE7yE0KDIeo&t=4s[All profits from this work go to the Homeless.] This is readers theater script that illustrates how poetry can have rhythm, and creative writing can be quite fun. It even incorporates elements of dance. ["Aids Orphans Remembered"]
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Response to Reading Tic Tac Toe
This is a fun game of Tic Tac Toe that engages readers in 9 activities to complete as they finish independently reading a book! Students have a month complete three activities in a row in response to thier reading, They can create a billboard, diary entries, a newspaper, a scrapbook, an interview, a timeline, a comic strip, a letter and response, and a poem. These activities increase comprehension with the use of hands on rigorous tasks. Kids love them because they're fun!
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3rd - 8th
A Passion for Poetry
This unit can be used as a whole class unit or as a way to differentiate for specific students who show an interest and/or talent in poetry. It includes a variety of ideas, resources, choices, and examples. A number of poems are included that students can use as templates from which to write their original pieces.
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3rd - 6th
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Vocabulary Detectives Word Origin/Writing Activity
This vocabulary extension activity can be implemented into your ELA curriculum to expand upon and reinforce root words, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and word origins. The preview activity suggests the utilization of a writing component, once the Vocabulary Detective Notebook has been completed on the previous page. This packet includes the cover sheet, complete instructions with samples, a list of websites in which to access word origins, the Detective Notebook template and sample, as well as
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4th - 6th, Staff
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"The Jagged Maggot (A Readers Theater Script)" [*New Book Trailer]
Check out the New Book Trailer (+13 Rating): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE7yE0KDIeo&t=4sWith a money back guarantee (labouyer@yahoo.com). [All profits from this work go to the Homeless.] This is a Readers Theatre Script that discusses the pitfalls and dangers of hard drug use. It would be quite relevant for Red Ribbon activities, discussions regarding drug abuse, etc. ["Aids Orphans Remembered"]
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8th - 12th
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100th Day Thinking Fun!
This packet will help your students enjoy the 100th day while still working on challenging activities. They will work hard with word choice as they write, thinking about number connections after completing a calculator activity, and doing some critical thinking as they solve problems and list words to fit a specific criteria!
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2nd - 5th
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Ancient Greek Creative Activity- Complete the Artifact
Creative, fun activity to use when learning about Ancient Greece
Could be used as a prompt for creative writing or an extension activity.
Students use their imaginations and their creative/artistic side to finish the 'broken' artifact to show what it could have been in Ancient Greek society.
They finish it by writing about what the artifact would have been and what it would have been used for.
Some examples past students have done: pottery, tools, a piece of jewelry , statue to the Gods...
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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Crafting a Short Story - Plot
Crafting a Short Story is a 3-4 week unit that will walk your students through the art and craft of writing a short story. It begins with choosing a topic and then goes through the features of a short story including character, setting, plot, conflict, theme, and editing and revision. Each of the story elements starts with informational text about the element, an opportunity to practice working with that element, and then a way of connecting to their own writing. This can be broken up by pieces,
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4th - 8th
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"Wipe That Off the Floor, Part II" Readers Theater Script
This is a Readers Theater Script that accommodates four players; it is based upon a silly poem/song with a 'Southern Folk Genre.' "Eefin' Technique" can be perused on the Internet for ideas there. Aids Orphans Remembered.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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