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Free middle school creative writing games
Creative Writing Prompts Story Starters Activity - Daily Writing Journal Prompts
These FREE creative writing prompts are perfect for daily journal writing prompts or to inspire students in their narrative writing! Overcome writer’s block and cultivate students’ ideas with these story starters. Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®!Included with this Story Starters Activity:✏️ 30+ Creative Writing Prompts - Digital & PrintActivity inspired by celebrated author Ray Bradbury✏️ Teacher Instructions for using this resource How to use th
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6th - 10th
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Morning Meeting Questions/Writing prompts FREEBIE
When I taught first grade we would have a morning meeting on the carpet every day. During this time we would sit in a circle and our leader would pick one of these questions out of a bag for the whole class to take turns answering.
This was such a fun, silly way to build a positive classroom environment! The students would laugh and giggle and each morning we would learn a little something new about each other.
I compiled this list of questions over time as I thought of them. How you use them
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K - 12th
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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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Creative Writing Activity - Roll a Setting
Get your students excited about writing with this engaging creative writing activity! Roll a Setting helps your students write a rich setting description with the help of a little luck. Students will roll for their setting elements, brainstorm, and then get writing! Since students will be rolling for time, place, mood, and atmosphere, this resource also helps them review the literary terms associated with setting.This activity works digitally with the help of a handy dice script. (Click here for
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Creative Writing Activities Bundle - Roll a Story
100th day of school : 100 seconds challenges FREEBIE !!
This is a 12 page booklet to be used on the 100th day of school.It can be used as a filler activity, during centers, during a transition or to begin class. These challenges are super fun and engaging and can be adjusted to fit any grade level!
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PreK - 6th
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Graphic Novel Comic Book Template
Use these graphic novel drawing templates for your next creative writing exercise, drawing class, or just for fun!Included in file:PDF with 3 high-quality print-ready graphic novel pagesEmpty speech and action bubbles for adding excitement and to use as a story promptIncludes halftone pattern for an authentic comic-book look!
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PreK - 12th
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Tic Tac Toe Holiday Writing Activities for Grades 6-10 - Free
To thank you for all of your support, I would like to share this free resource with you! Remember, older kids have fun playing tic-tac-toe, too! ;) Enjoy! Happy Holidays!Connect with Me SuperHERO Teacher BlogFind me on FacebookFind me on InstagramFind me on PinterestFind me on Snapchat: Superheroteach
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6th - 10th
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Collaborative Fold Over Build a Sentence Story/ Subject and Predicate Game
Who Did What? Build a Collaborative Sentence is a fun activity for kids to practice writing complete sentences inside the classroom and beyond it. In 3 - 6 grade, writing takes on greater significance, and as kids learn to express themselves through the written word there's no end to the possibilities!This fun writing activity adopts a regular task - writing a sentence - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience. A classic childhood game – “Write. Fold. Pass.” Remember? Write a l
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3rd - 10th
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Writing Graphic Organizers for Rory's Story Cubes
This file includes 10 Graphic Organizers to use with Rory's Story Cubes. Order information for the cubes is included in the download. The graphic organizers are story starters and a story frame that can be used to help with fictional and narrative writing. The open-ended sentences and questions will lead students to create a wonderful story with a beginning, middle, and end with the events put in order. Introduce those 'time' words like first, next, then, and last and writing begins to impr
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1st - 8th
Blank Die/ Dice Template
This is a template for a blank die. These are great for a variety of classroom activities. Some ideas include:
*vocabulary games
*creative writing story starters
*ESOL/ ESL vocabulary practice
*non-linguistic representations of vocabulary
*conversation starters for ESOL/ ESL beginners (use multiple dice to make more complicated sentences)
Print on cardstock, laminate, cut out and glue together (may have to use glue gun or resort to tape) so that you can write on it with a dry erase marker an
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K - 12th
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Amazing Sentence Builder Game
Children love mazes and playing games. Children practice critical thinking and are eager to form sentences as they put writing and reading skills into action.Skills: sentence beginnings, sentence construction, identification and formation of complete sentences. identifying run on sentences, creating a variety of sentence lengths, word choiceCCSS Reading Foundational Skills: RF.1, RF.3, RF.4If you enjoy this game, review Word Game Writing Activity Book for more ideas.
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1st - 6th
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Storytelling and Story-building Activity Game Cards for Conversation or Writing
Try these FREE storytelling game cards for any age group elementary through university, any English class including ESL, any size class even individual tutoring. These cards are versatile and can be used again and again. For creative thinking, speaking, writing, or just a fun activity. Even use them for your own Game Night!Using this over Zoom: In Breakout groups, I've been giving students a prompt to start the story, then every minute I "push" (Broadcast Message to All) one of the cards ran
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: First Week Bundle of Activities and Introductions
Saving Candyland - Escape Room! FREE!
Hiya! This is a great activity for classroom team-building. You may wish to allow students to enter in intervals OR you may wish to time groups of 3-5 and whoever completes it the fastest wins. This is a Candyland themed escape/puzzle room which includes 5 zones. Desks will be used to represent candy hills, cliffs, and plains. You may wish to bring blankets to represent chocolate rivers and other various props. I have 2 pages worth of teacher instructions. Page 1 is for setting up, including mat
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4th - 9th
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Story Cubes
Product DescriptionStory Cubes (9 pcs.) can be used with groups or individuals, in summer camps or speaking clubs.There are some ideas how to make lessons fun using them: 1. Children take turns to throw the cubes. The first student creates the beginning of the story, others its logical or crazy continuation. 2. Everyone throws 2-3 cubes and makes a funny story of 3-4 sentences about yesterday, last weekend, summer vocations or about any future plans. The stories can also be about last news they’
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K - 12th
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FREEBIE: Snow Day Mad Lib
I don't know about your school, but we are on our 7th snow day! All of this time off has really messed with our instructional time. In order to hook my class back in, I've created a mad libs game to play before our lesson. Enjoy!
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4th - 12th, Staff
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What Do You Meme? Game
Modeled after the card game, What Do You Meme is a great way to build community, teamwork, and fun in your classroom. Students need to create captions for famous internet memes, and peers on their team vote on whose caption is the funniest. Then teammates need to decipher who wrote the winning caption! It's like Apples to Apples for kids who live on the internet.
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6th - 12th
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Halloween MadLibs
Halloween or spooky themed MadLibs - fun for all ages! Great way to review parts of speech.
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2nd - 6th
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FREE: Valentine's Day Roll A Story
**If you find our resource valuable, kindly consider leaving a 5-star review to support our work and help other educators discover these helpful materials. Your feedback means a lot to us**This Valentine's inspired roll-a-story activity, is perfect for any classroom in need of some creative writing inspiration. Students will relish the opportunity to generate a story starter by rolling a dice and combining different story elements. It can be used in a literacy center, group work, literacy rotati
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K - 6th
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Red Carpet Murder Mystery! FREE!
Enjoy a murder mystery that can involve the whole class! There are 8 suspects but the rest of the class can hold clues which are revealed every few minutes. Other clues can be hidden around the classroom.Students get to debate and figure out who the murderer is! This is useful for the consolidation of persuasive skills taught previously. You may wish to give students each a checklist with rhetorical language (e.g. rhetorical question, emotive words) and have students tick whether they have used/
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7th - 12th
Story Game - Collaborative Writing
Get your students creating stories quickly with this fun and collaborative writing game designed to illustrate the four basic elements of narrative: Character, Setting, Crisis and Resolution. Writing a story doesn't have to be long and hard - in fact a very short story with the right elements can be an excellent narrative starting point. The real strength of this game is to help students overcome writer's block, generate new ideas through team work. This is a good resource to use at any grade le
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5th - 12th
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Christmas Preparation Mad Lib
A Christmas Mab Lib game for your middle-school kids. There will be fun and laughter as your kids apply their knowledge of parts of speech. Great for a end of school party activity. There is a Christmas colored copy and a plain white copy for use with your own fun Christmas paper. Have fun and enjoy!
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4th - 6th
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AVID Team Building Story Starters for Public Speaking and Writing Skills
Enhance collaboration, writing and public speaking skills with Story Starters! This AVID resource provides engaging story starters that encourage students to finish a story and present it to their peers. This activity fosters collaboration and communication within small groups or whole class settings, while also providing a fun way to improve public speaking skills. Download the Google Slides digital resource today and see the positive impact it can have on your students' teamwork and confidence
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: AVID Fun Writing Activities Bundle
Who Am I? Monsters Matching Game
Who Am I? Monsters Matching GameThis is a no prep activity to help extend your students' ability to use descriptive language. It can also be used to extend vocabulary in a second language (just have a list of body parts, colors, etc handy).Instructions1. Describe one of the creatures. 2. See if your partner can guess which one it is.3. Now it’s your partner’s turn to describe a picture.4. Repeat until you have guessed them all!
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1st - 6th
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Writing A Free Verse Poem Activity Freebie
Through this activity, students will review figurative language while also writing their very own free verse poem. Students use a CD labeled with figurative language to create their poem. This is great when doing a poetry unit, or if you just want your students to practice creative writing. This activity is also great for all type of learners.
Product includes the activity sheet/rubric, but the CD isn't included. I have, however, included a picture of a CD I created. It takes less than 2 minute
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6th - 12th
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