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Middle school creative writing resources for staff on sale
Design a Squish Mallow & Write About It. Creative & Fun Writing Activity.
Design a Squish Mallow and Write About It Fun, Creative Writing Activity that will get kids wanting to share!Do you call them Squishmallows or Squish Mallows? Either way, kids love them! Design a Squish Mallow and Write About It! Kids love designing them and writing about them too! My students wanted to do more than one! This is good for ALL ages!Fun and Creative Writing Activity for All StudentsIncluded:Outline for Designing a Squish Mallow; 2 designsBlank Design Page; 2 designsGraphic Orga
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1st - 8th
Preposition Poem Worksheet, Word Lists, and Easel Activity
Preposition Poem Worksheet. Prepositions and poetry together! Worksheet will help students playfully combine poetic form with a riddle, while extending awareness of prepositional phrases and their use. Also encourages use of imagery and figurative language like similes and metaphors to paint pictures with words. Includes a preposition list, a sensory word list, and a brainstorming sheet to help students get their poems started, along with teacher directions. Emoji theme, in color and black and w
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Poetry Bundle of Teaching Resources Grades 5 - 8
Writing Center | Writing Station Kit | Literacy Center
This resource is going to be an AWESOME writing tool in your classroom! It supports students' writing and creativity, and it also supports YOU, the teacher. I created this product with that way of thinking in mind. I wanted something portable, simple, and straight-forward for them to refer to while they explore the world of writing. I wanted any question that they may have during this process to be answered by what they saw before them.I have to say...I feel pretty good about what I created for
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3rd - 6th
Figurative Language Posters
If you are looking for a way to have your students use and identify figurative language throughout the school year, then look no further! I have created these printable posters so that you could display them in your room and utilize them as a tool to both teach and review these concepts.★This is what you will receive with your download:(Each of the following comes in SIX different style formats for you to choose from!)Printable Figurative Language Title PageSimile PostersMetaphor PostersOnomatop
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Poetry Writing - Five Senses Poem Creating Imagery with Easel Activity
Five Senses Poem Poetry Writing with Easel Activity. Help students begin using sensory language and writing poetry using vivid imagery. Add to your poetry unit. Students write a poem using their senses. Examples guide thinking. Includes handout, brainstorming pages, final poem publishing page, slides for whiteboard, and teacher directions. You’ll be amazed at the original and creative poems students write using this format. Great addition for Poetry Month in April. Good for substitute, homework
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Poetry Bundle of Teaching Resources Grades 5 - 8
Bloom Ball Book Report, Full Size - Editable
Here is a full size Bloom Ball completely editable.
You can delete and add questions that best fit the needs of your students.
This activity can be done in class, as an individual project and or homework.
I will be posting other Bloom Balls at a later date with questions you can chose at different levels to make it easier to differentiate according to your students' needs.
* The template you are purchasing is for the large Bloom Ball.
Don't forget to give feedback and come back soon. :-)
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3rd - 6th
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Hatchet Activities, 12 Research Projects, STEAM, Google Slides, & Rubrics
Are you looking for a fully engaging way to teach the novel, Hatchet? Do you want your students to be fully immersed in self-guided research projects that they will beg to work on? Our Hatchet Activities: 12 Research Projects are full of incredible activities to keep your students entranced. Our Hatchet Activities contains 12 cross-curricular projects that promote character analysis, STEAM, poetry, synthesis, and so much more. Including RUBRICs for your students and you for almost every project!
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4th - 7th
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Blank Headstone - Tombstone for Writing Character Epitaphs or Dead Word Funeral
Blank head stone or tombstone fun for Halloween or anytime. Make a graveyard of epitaphs. Use the headstone or gravestone to have students write a character epitaph or summary of a book where a main character dies. Students can focus on character traits and what makes a character memorable. Many ways to use these: Students have fun writing their own epitaphs in poetry form. A perfect way to display Halloween limericks. Students bury dead words and verbs and have Funeral Activities, or they bury
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3rd - 6th
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End of the Year ELA Menu Choice Board Middle Grades with Easel Activity
This End of the Year middle grades ELA Menu assignment is a great final project or end of year activity. Useful writing choice board for differentiation. Print or go digital. A favorite end of year activity. Students like to have a choice to complete any of 6 different projects to demonstrate what they have learned in the course of the school year. Displayed in 3 different formats. One is presented as a menu choice board, one is presented as a list that students can read over with parents and ci
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5th - 8th
Also included in: End of the Year Activities for Middle Grades Language Arts BUNDLE
Fairy Tale Story Maps with SWBST Graphic Organizer - Somebody Wanted But So Then
Somebody Wanted But So Then Fairy Tale Story Map and Writing Activities. Use the SWBST story frame for writing a fairy tale and illustrating it or as a reading guide summarizing strategy for students to summarize a story they've been reading. The packet includes a 2-page "Somebody Wanted But So Then" story pattern, an elements of a fairytale graphic organizer handout, a castle graphic organizer for story elements, fairy tale story outline sheet, a story map graphic organizer, activities for read
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Fairy Tales Resource Bundle
Christmas Writing Activity: Revising Lyrics of Christmas Songs
Christmas Writing Activity - Revising the lyrics of Christmas Songs. Get students engaged in some creative writing before the holidays. Fun! Students can rewrite some of their favorite Christmas songs, such as White Christmas, Jingle Bells, and The Grinch. Three writing templates to get them started. If students get stuck, have them think of synonyms for the missing words. Print and Digital Resource: Includes an Easel Activity ready for learning with digital tools. Assign it online in Google Cla
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
Argumentative, Informational, & Narrative Essays & RACES Writing Strategy Bundle
Students will be able to easily write a strong argumentative, informational, and narrative essay as well as the RACES writing strategy with constructive responses. These easy to follow, step-by-step directions walk students through the essay writing & RACES process. Each resource comes in printable and digital format. SAVE 20% when you purchase this bundle!Argumentative Essay UnitSuggested Lesson PlanMentor texts - 2 model argumentative essays- one on why students should be in school during
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5th - 8th
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SUPER BUNDLE: Sequence, Sequencing Stories with Pictures, retelling stories
184 WONDERFUL SEQUENCING STORIES INCLUDED IN THIS SUPER BUNDLE:A broken vaseLost umbrella Brushing your teeth A good dogPet groomingMaking a sandwich Building a scooter A field mouseBreakfast surpriseAlphabet Balloon stuck in a tree Planting a treeCleaning your roomCats love fish bones Doll’s laundry Catching a burglarHelping a catEating ice-creamBalloon pops Hot sunA boy and his kiteWashing dishes Going fishing in a pondA poor bird! Building blocks Feeding the birdsSandcastle A bird and a foxWa
Grades:
PreK - 9th
Christmas Scattergories game Puzzle riddle sight word middle high school 6th 5th
Christmas Scattergories game, First Day of Winter break Scattergories word Game, classroom Worksheets, Back to School classroom Spelling, Speaking, Speech therapy Activity, Morning Work, centers, Team Building, Teamwork - This Scattergories word work game is great for all ages 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th Kid Education, homeschool, Primary school, Junior high school, high school, Middle school, and Homeschool students.--- YOU WILL RECEIVE:- 1 PDF File Includes 4 Pages (Scatterg
Grades:
4th - 12th
Halloween Imagery Word Lists - 140 Writing Prompts with Easel Activity
Halloween Writing imagery sheet and sensory word lists for reference. Use these to write spooky Halloween stories with imagery and more description. Great pack for a writing center or print for writing notebooks or folders. First page explains when a writer uses imagery, the reader can create a set of mental pictures produced by the memory or imagination. The author uses sensory images and figurative language to stimulate the reader's mind. Readers visualize and feel the senses of sight, sound,
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4th - 7th
Short Story Writing Rubric for Project Based Learning
Use this rubric to evaluate short story writing. Have your students write a short story for a fun hands-on learning project. They can use PowerPoint slides to get creative, using this rubric as a guide for including the literary elements, and making it easy for you to grade. Print or go digital. This rubric specifies the requirements needed, and addresses the writing process, introduction, organization, problem or conflict, characters, setting, resolution/solution, and spelling and punctuation.
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Middle School Writing Rubrics BUNDLE
Drama Play Writing Project Outline with Easel Activity Printable and Digital
Drama Play Outline for Play Writing Project. Drama writing activity. If you want your students to write their own play, this is a good way to get them to start thinking. They must write an outline of what their play is about, and they will need to complete the ten steps required for a good outline of their play. Students will have to include information on characters, setting, conflict, plot, etc. Includes brainstorming sheet, protagonist and antagonist character developing sheets (male and fema
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Drama Unit Resource BUNDLE Print and Digital Easel Activities
Thanksgiving independent reading Activities Unit Sub Plans craft Early finishers
Thanksgiving theme Christmas All around the world math & writing icebreaker game BUNDLE activity, December November august craft activities, Fall break English language arts morning work reading for an early finisher, I'm thankful for tradition culture traditional food celebrate phonics main idea centers activity NO PREP, Autumn break holiday vacation, Thank you appreciation, pumpkin Turkey, substitute unit plan, brain breaks Classroom Management, ... This game is great for ages: 4th 5th 6th
Grades:
5th - 12th
Summer fun independent reading Activities Unit Sub Plans crafts Early finishers
Summer theme is math & writing reading activity, the Summer vacation topic is English language art activities, the summer break icebreaker game BUNDLE, May, june, july, August writing craft activities, Summer break morning work reading for an early finisher, End of year phonics main idea centers activity NO PREP, Back to School substitute, Summer brain breaks Classroom Management, gift idea ... This game is great for ages: 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th grade, Kid Education, early fi
Grades:
5th - 12th
Halloween Poetry Reading & Writing with Easel Activities
Halloween Poems! Fun poetry activities for creative Halloween writing. Poems to read and share to go with these Halloween writing activities. Includes seven original Halloween poems (and one about Fall Festival) for reading aloud just for fun, in color and black and white. Suggested questions to identify poetry elements. You can print them and use in October literacy centers or for student copies to read along. Examples of various types of sound devices and figurative language found in the poem
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Poetry Bundle of Teaching Resources Grades 5 - 8
Weather Poetry Imagery Word List, Templates and Easel Activity Digital and Print
Imagery with Weather Poems! Easel Activity included. Have your students create weather poems using descriptive adjectives and imagery. Three different poem formats support differentiated instruction. Includes a list of weather adjectives and eight different acrostic poem writing papers with differentiated lines. Fun and engaging activity when reading a story or novel in which weather plays a major role in developing the plot (i.e. the short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury or the nove
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Poetry Bundle of Teaching Resources Grades 5 - 8
Myth Writing Lesson for Middle School with Easel Activity Digital and Printable
Myth Writing Lesson for Middle School. Fun for your mythology unit or writing lesson. Includes lesson plan details, assignment handout, and rubric. Students will learn the elements of myth, research a mythological hero, and write their own narrative. They will create a modern-day myth and tell how the hero they chose can solve one of a list of problems that face middle school kids today. Great for substitute, homework, homeschool, distance learning, and independent study. This can be used as a n
Grades:
5th - 8th
Narrative Writing Prompts, Narrative Writing Graphic Organizer, Narrative Rubric
Introducing narrative writing has never been easier! This comprehensive personal narrative essay writing prompt resource guides students through the step-by-step process of crafting a compelling narrative. Using a detailed narrative graphic organizer, students will learn to draft a narrative outline and write a complete narrative essay.These narrative writing lessons are designed to help students develop an entertaining and engaging story. The comprehensive lessons include: a narrative writing r
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Esperanza Rising Activities, 14 Research Projects, PBL, Rubrics, Google Slide
Are you looking for a fully engaging unit that spans beyond basic comprehension questions to teach the novel, Esperanza Rising? Do you want students to be immersed in self-guided projects, interesting and thought-provoking writing pieces, rigorous assignments that incorporate ELA standards and art, and fun hands-on activities? Our Esperanza Rising 14 Research Projects/Activities Unit is full of incredible project-based learning opportunities to keep your students engaged and connected to this no
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4th - 7th
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