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High school creative writing lessons under $5
Narrative Writing - Graphic Organizers, Rubrics & More For A Personal Narrative
Personal Narrative Writing - An easy package to teach students how to write a well-organized personal narrative. These organizers and worksheets lead students through the writing process, from brainstorming to the finished product. Using examples and extensive peer and self-editing, students can produce a well-written narrative paragraph. It can also be a starting point for a longer essay or writing piece.For a DIGITAL version of this resource, click HERE. Includes the following 15 pages:- Les
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: WRITING - Persuasive, Narrative, Expository & Descriptive Writing Bundle
The Princess Bride Movie Guide + Activities - Answer Key Included
This 14 page movie guide with handouts is for the film "The Princess Bride (1987)". ★★ Check out the full preview! ★★This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.PART 1 - Comprehension Questions in chronological order. I have made two sets for differentiation. The multiple choice questions will also work well with ESL/ELL students. Answer keys included.30 questions requiring full sentence answers 30 multiple choice questions with 3 possible answers PART 2 - Storyboard
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Also included in: 3 Pack Bundle - Adventure Movie Guide Questions + Activities
Crime Scene Creative Writing Activity Pack
Engage your students with this Crime Scene Creative Writing Activity Pack! In this activity pack, you will get everything you need to launch your students into team-building, brainstorming, and writing their own mystery short story.You will receive the following:A complete guide to help you transform your classroom into a crime scene, and have your students do all the imagining from the clues that you set up and leave behind!Posters and station cardsStudent handouts (including evidence tracking
Grades:
5th - 12th
Also included in: BUNDLE Crime Scene/Mystery Files Creative Writing Activities
Ode Poems for High School Creative Writing | Printable & Digital
Are you looking for a way to challenge students to use imagery while writing about something they love, in person or online? Odes provide a fun challenge in a creative writing course, as an enrichment activity, or a way to review figurative language. Their open-ended structure, but focused subject matter allow for a gradual release of responsibility for creative writing students or for excellent writers looking to challenge themselves. Students will love being able to write about something that
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Poetry Writing Activities for High School Bundle | Printable & Digital
End of the Year Activities w/ One-Pager Reflection for High School English & ELA
Use this end of the year activity for high school English classes to make the last week of school meaningful, memorable, and rich in reflection! This One-Pager Reflection Unit has a full week of lesson plans and student materials to guide students through a meaningful reflection process. Students take ownership of the assignment and the structure allows class time for teacher grading and organizational tasks so you can walk out on the last day of school satisfied with a successful school year!
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7th - 12th
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Creative Writing Workshop: Dialogue Mini-Lesson for High School
Teach your students how to craft and punctuate strong dialogue with this mini-lesson and writing workshop! Equipped with everything you need to teach hard and soft skills around writing dialogue, this lesson is a must-have when you're teaching narrative writing!With the slideshow, students will learn why dialogue is effective in narrative writing, what makes for strong dialogue, and how to properly format and punctuate dialogue. Then, they will practice the mechanics of punctuation with a worksh
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: High School Creative Writing Workshops & Mini Lessons Bundle
Two-Sentence Horror Stories - Micro Fiction Creative Writing
Do you need a fun creative writing lesson or an engaging Halloween writing activity that will leave your kids begging for more? Kids love reading and writing two-sentence horror stories! But it's not all about fun. Micro-fiction requires writing that is concise. Students actually WANT to revise until their story is perfect. (How often does THAT happen?)This fiction writing lesson encourages creativity and helps students form a new understanding of what makes a complete plot. They will also form
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6th - 10th
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Fractured Fairy Tales - a Creative Writing Assignment W/ 3 Days of Lesson Plans
This creative writing 3-day lesson will guide your students through the process of creating an original Fractured Fairy Tale! Students choose a fairy tale to “fracture” and create an original take on a traditional fairy tale. This resource includes lesson plans, bell ringers, an assignment sheet, a planning sheet, a revision workshop, and a detailed rubric. All the prep work is done!All materials are available in PDF to print and student materials are writeable in Google Slides. ⭐ WAIT ⭐ This
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9th - 12th
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Fairy Tale Newspaper Article (creative writing, template, & editable rubric)
Have your students bring a popular fairy tale to life while at the same time, learning the proper format of a newspaper article. This would be a great addition to any creative writing unit or journalism class. The instructions and assignment are comprehensible for the outlined grades, but can be used for other grades as desired by the teacher.
Included in this file:
-Assignment instructions
-Newspaper outline
-Practice paper
-Newspaper template
-Brainstorm sheet
-Peer review checklist
-Rubr
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5th - 9th
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Caption It! Caption Writing Creative and Expository Writing Activity
"Caption It!" is a standards-based activity that features over 25 images for students to write captions. Directions are included for both a creative writing exercise and an expository (journalism) writing exercise.Caption writing is a shorter writing exercise that still practices proper conventions of grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in standard English. Start with these shorter exercises before moving to larger writing pieces such as formal essays. In addition, fosterin
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Indirect and Direct Characterization: “Show, Don’t Tell” Writing Lesson
Need a quick lesson to review or introduce characterization? Want students to show instead of tell in writing? Grab this activity to define direct vs. indirect characterization and get writing immediately!In this lesson, students will:• Learn what the two types are and their purposes• Learn 5 strategies to convert direct sentences to indirect• Practice in whole-class, small group, and individual sentences, including choosing their own direct sentences to revise• Answer a review/exit ticket quest
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: A Christmas Carol: Unit Bundle with Random Acts of Kindness
Write Your Manifesto {A Mini Writing Unit for Grades 6-12}
Manifestos are an excellent hybrid of creative writing and writing for the "real world". Companies across the globe rely on establishing their values through a carefully crafted manifesto - this assignment is inspired by that idea and has been adapted to empower students to draft a short manifesto capturing their own belief system.
This is a lesson that can be used in a variety of classes. From freshman English, to graduating seniors, to AVID, and even a homeroom class, asking students to wri
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9th - 12th
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WRITING LESSON: Writing A Horror Story
Halloween is a fun time to look at scary stories, and a great opportunity to get students to buy into writing! This three-day activity really focuses students on developing a short story from start to finish.
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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Also included in: 15 Writing Lessons BUNDLE
The Hunger Games Movie Guide + Activities - Answer Key Inc.
This 11 page movie guide with activity handouts is for the film "The Hunger Games (2012)" ★★ Check out the full preview! ★★Great introduction to use with a dystopian unit. This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.PART 1 – This is comprised of 2 sets of comprehension questions depending on how much of a challenge you want to give the students.• 50 questions in chronological order. Answer key included• 30 questions (20 removed from the 50 questions) in chronological
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Also included in: 2 Pack Bundle - The Hunger Games Movie Guide Questions + Activities
The Road Not Taken Activity - Creative Poetry Writing Assignment
The Road Not Taken Activity - Creative Poetry Writing Assignment: Bring poetry to life in your classroom by using this unique poetry writing assignment for Robert Frost's poem The Road Not Taken. After interpreting and analyzing the poem, students are ready to show off their creative writing skills. They will take all of the individual words from The Road Not Taken and rearrange some or all of the words to create a unique and original poem. You will be amazed by the variety of poems that your st
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8th - 11th
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Creative Writing Prompts with Art Inferences | Middle & High School
Two class periods devoted to inferring the story inside art pieces - it's a short time with big results. Kids practice creativity, building a narrative, and using fact-based inference skills. Their enjoyment will enhance the powerful effect of the lessons. Included: Narrative Writing prompts, bookmarks, stationery, PowerPoint, Graphic Organizer, student and teacher directions. Play music softly in the background to activate more brain function. Fun, thought-provoking activity for middle and high
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Arts Integration Language Arts Lesson Bundle
Spooky Mentor Text Stations: Study Author's Craft with YA Horror Excerpts
Help your students study author's craft and learn new techniques to apply to their own writing with these spooky mentor text stations featuring engaging excerpts from YA horror books! These contemporary mentor texts will scare AND inspire your students.If you've never used mentor texts, this is a great way to try them out in an engaging, low-risk format. A mentor text is an exemplary text that student writers can learn from. By exploring techniques, or the “moves” authors make in these texts, st
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7th - 12th
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Poetic Devices with Pop Songs-- EDITABLE
In this bundle, you will find a collection of activities that use pop songs to target the following poetic devices: ImagerySimileMetaphorContrastAssonancePersonificationHyperboleAllusionParadoxAnaphoraEpistropheAlliterationConsonanceIronyRhetorical questionsActivity #1: Devices in Pop SongsThe first activity is a Google Slideshow that has students looking for specific devices in specific famous songs. Unfortunately, I could not include the song lyrics or an answer key for this activity because
Grades:
8th - 12th
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The Metaphor Challenge
Teach students to use metaphor effectively in their writing--and let them have a little fun too! UPDATED SEPTEMBER 2020 with an option for distance learning - if you want the digital version only,click here.(This is part of my Figurative Language Challenges Bundle).I created these challenges when I realized that my students -- who could parrot back the definition of a metaphor, and even identify ones in their texts -- could not easily create their own. The challenges, then, are designed to give
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Also included in: ELA Games & Challenges for Grammar, Word Choice, Argument & More!
Quotation Marks - Punctuation Review, Reference Sheets, Practice, & Posters
Quotation Marks - Students review and practice the use of quotation marks in their writing. I find students love to add dialogue to short stories but they lack the skills to know how to punctuate their work correctly. Using a unique set of "Quote Cards" as writing prompts, students can put their new found punctuation skills to the test. Each "Quote Card" starts with a line of dialogue to help students start a short story or paragraph.Includes 15 pages!Lesson Idea Sheet"Using Quotation Marks Cor
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Whose Shoe is This? STEREOTYPING Activity PLUS NEW ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
Discussing stereotyping in your class? Or perhaps reading The Outsiders or To Kill a Mockingbird? If the shoe fits, then this activity is for you! Lead your class into an in-depth discussion on how and why we stereotype AFTER you have them stereotype SHOES!**Additional activities have been added to this product: 1) guided notes to go with a youtube video on stereotyping, 2) reflection questions for after the guided notes, and 3) creative writing/reflection choice options for students to further
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7th - 12th
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Formal Letter Writing Unit | Business Letters | Email | Distance Learning
This best-selling 100-PAGE DIGITAL resource contains everything your students will need to learn how to write outstanding FORMAL LETTERS and EMAILS in 2024 that IMPACT upon their audience. This INTERACTIVE unit contains - Easy-to-follow, engaging instructional slides - High-quality tutorial videos - A range of writing samples for students to follow - Assessment tools, rubrics, and checklists - A range of graphic organizers, templates and tools for reluctant writers - Everything is entirely EDI
Grades:
4th - 9th
Pay it Forward Movie Guide + Activities - Answer Key Included
This 6 page movie guide with handouts accompanies the film "Pay it Forward (2000)". ★★ Check out the full preview! ★★This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.Part 1 – Here we have 20 comprehension questions in chronological order. This section also includes drawing the pay it forward chart and explaining how it works.Part 2 – Consists of 2 tasks. The first task is asking the students to imagine they’ve been asked to pay it forward to three people and write what the
Grades:
7th - 12th
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OPENING LINES Drama / English Cards (with Drama Games + Activities)
This set of 99 OPENING LINE Drama Cards comes with 3 suggested drama activities (Opening Line Scenes; One Word / Line at a time; Monologues) but can be used in so many more ways. Get your scenes and storytelling off to a great start with this collection of open ended short scene starters. DRAMA TRUNK DRAMA CARDS ARE A DRAMA TEACHER'S BEST FRIEND! Just print, laminate (optional) and cut out a set of versatile drama cards that you can use over and over again. I cannot count how many times and ways
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Drama Cards : BUNDLED 17 SETS (with Drama Activities & Games)
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