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Middle school creative writing task card pdfs
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
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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Christmas Narrative Writing Hilarious Holiday Writing Tasks
Use Christmas writing task cards to help your students develop a love of writing this holiday season. With Wacky Christmas Narrative Writing activities your students will beg to move on to writer's workshop all December long! You and your students will laugh till you cry at the creative narratives your students will write. Maintain high rigor as you spiral through your writing instruction during the holidays! Students and teachers across the country have fallen in love with Wacky Narrative Wr
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Christmas Mega Bundle for 4th Grade
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 &
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2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Early Finisher and Enrichment Activities - The ULTIMATE 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
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3rd - 10th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for K. Cook
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
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Secondary ELA Mega Bundle
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
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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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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
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3rd - 6th
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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
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.
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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
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
Finding & Teaching THEME: Task Cards & More (DIFFERENTIATED)
A FAVORITE WITH MY STUDENTS!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 concept of THEME. Teaching theme is fun if you have the right resource! This resource contains enough material for WEEKS OF INSTRUCTION. Although the stories were written for teaching theme, they can also be used to review or introduce CHARACTER TRAITS/CONFLICT, STORY E
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3rd - 6th
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WINTER HOLIDAY Drama Activities (Grade 4-8)
Inspire your students to explore their creativity with this fun winter holiday activity. This resource includes 2 tasks: a skit assignment (groups) and a storytelling assignment (individual).This is a fantastic activity for the last few weeks of school before the winter holidays. It allows students to have fun and learn about the Elements of Drama. All scenarios and settings in this activity are related to winter, not any one particular holiday. Santa Claus is included as a winter character, but
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4th - 7th
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Writer's Workshop Stations
Writing Workshop Stations: Writer's workshop focuses students on the process necessary to create great writing. It's an excellent strategy for teaching and learning, but it can be hard to organize. These writer's workshop stations will help you with that. Be sure to check the preview for more detail!Imagine a classroom where students move from station to station, taking responsibility for their learning, and following the process necessary for creating a strong piece of writing. These writing w
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Learning Stations Mega Bundle
Improvisation Scene Starters (Improvisation Scenarios) with Improv Games
Improvisation scenarios by Drama Trunk. Looking for improvisation resources that are ready to print and go? Use these improv scene starters for any drama game where a simple scenario is needed. These improv scene starters are suitable for scenes where 1 person starts or where there are 2 or more players.Use Drama Trunk ‘Improv Scene Starter’ Cards with the following suggested improv games (instructions included in resource), use them to start scenes or to start any improvisation.• Space Jump• Wh
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Early Finishers Activities I'm Done Now What Choice Board Sticks Bored Busters
Early FinishersClick here to save money and buy a bundle containing this product! Over 50% savings!You know that student... the one who whips through an assignment at lightning speed only to raise their hand with that dreaded question.. "I'm done, what do I do now?" Stress no further! If students ask you that question, you can kindly direct them to the "I'm Done Now What Do I Do Bored Busters" activity prompts!These 30 prompts will keep your quick finishers busy!________________________________
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1st - 8th, Adult Education
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Writing Stimulus {Writing Prompts}
Writing Stimulus / Creative Writing Prompts:Writing Stimulus Task Cards | Creative Writing Prompts | Writing Stimulus Task Cards | Creative Writing Prompts | We as teachers expect our students to create pieces of writing on a regular basis - whether it be a narrative, short story, poem or creative writing piece. What we don't think about is how hard the children find it to actually get those creative juices flowing and think about topics to write about. Unfortunately, we don't have the time to s
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1st - 6th
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Halloween Writing Prompts with Pictures Narrative
21 Spine-Chilling Halloween picture writing prompts for truly terrifying and exhilarating narrative writing that students will love to write. Each Halloween writing prompt includes a visual and a written element to inspire creative writing of a high standard from students. Your students will love writing narratives using the thought-provoking and engaging prompts and story starters. Students engage with the visually attractive prompts and write scary stories like never before! No preparation nec
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5th - 8th
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Winter Activities | ELA and Literacy Centers for Upper Elementary
Newly updated with reading passages, a cleaner look, and a more modern feel.These are great for literacy centers!Included are Language Arts centers for the entire month of January!There are 54 centers total with instructions on how to implement them into your classroom. Each center comes with a task card and a corresponding worksheet (with the exception of the "teacher directed center". I leave that task card blank, because as the classroom teacher, you will know what to teach your small groups
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Monthly Themed Literacy Centers for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Grade
Narrative Writing Picture Prompt TASK CARDS
Narrative Writing Picture Prompt TASK CARDS - Creative Writing - Brainstorming
Do your students ever struggle to brainstorm ideas for narrative writing? These cards are great for your students to get the ‘creative juices’ flowing!
These cards encourage creative thinking and problem-solving in story writing.
Included are 40 Narrative Writing Task Cards. Each card includes 3 pictures and associated words to stimulate thinking.
If you love these, check out these prompts below!
Writing Promp
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1st - 6th
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Personification and Hyperbole Digital Activities | Figurative Language Digital
Go paperless with our Google Slides Personification and Hyperbole digital figurative language resource! These activities feature 26 interactive slides for students to work through. Develop your students' ability to understand and use figurative language in their writing. Great for distance learning and at-home learning. These activities are great for your writing program in both a traditional classroom with some access to mobile learning to a full 1:1 digital classroom. They are great for end of
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Figurative Language Digital Activities Bundle for Google Classroom
Main Idea!
Main Idea: 44 pages - Let your students learn about main idea by searching for the main idea and the supporting details! This unit has helpful activities that your students will surely enjoy.
Each of the task card contains informational text that could help your students master the skills of spotting and giving the main idea and the supporting details.
This unit includes:
5 Main Idea and Supporting Details Posters
60 Main Idea Task Cards
3 Give the Supporting Details Activities
4 Main Idea Wo
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Gifted and Talented Unit - Research & Design Your Own Fantasy World
Gifted and Talented Unit - Research the Fantasy Fiction Genre and Design Your Own Fantasy Fiction World and Story
The purpose of this unit is to explore the genre of fantasy, focusing on the creative process of developing a fantasy world (setting, language, characters, plot, sub-plots, etc.)
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★Check it out!: This unit is included in the Gifted and Talented Middle Grades Unit Bundle at a discounted price!
I developed this enrichment unit for my grades 3-5 gifted and talen
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4th - 8th
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