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Free high 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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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
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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Western Creative Writing Prompt
100% digital. Suitable for distance learning! Get your cowboy hat and get ready to inspire your students with this immersive Western writing prompt! The ultimate creative writing starter, this tool will supply students with a rodeo of corrupt Sheriffs, jaded cowboys, shootouts and wild west action that will make their writing explode onto the page like dynamite! EARLY BIRD - the first 100 downloads of this resource are FREE - please give me good feedback!If you're sick of hearing students say: "
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4th - 12th
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Would You Rather /s/ and /z/
If you are targeting /s/ and /z/ in all word positions at the sentence level, this is a great activity for you! Not only does it target reading, but will allow your client to produce spontaneous utterances. This material is appropriate for a wide age range: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th. This activity is excellent for teletherapy or in-person sessions. Get talking with this fun would you rather game!
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2nd - 12th
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Halloween ROLL THE DICE: create your monster (description elements)
This rolll the dice game focus on the festivity of halloween, but can be also used for a regular lesson to make a fun description or comparison activity. Students roll the dice to select the different parts of their monster and then they draw it. For medium level students, they can describe their monster (written and orally). They can also compare the mosnters in groups for a higher lever. In this resource you will find a white and black version as well as a more colorfull one.
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1st - 11th, Adult Education
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The Hero's Journey - Short Story High School Complete Lesson
This resource can be used with middle/high school students. The resources addresses the Hero's Journey in an interactive and engaging manner. There is a mix between auditory, visual and kinaesthetic activities, to support differentiation.The lesson utilises content relevant to 21st century learners, to support their learning of the Hero's Journey. Credit has been given to resources that are not originally crafted by me.
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7th - 11th
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Native American Myth Generator Game - narrative story writing prompts .
Roll a Myth — you will need two 6 sided dice.
I use this grid to support children with generating ideas for their writing… in this case for Native American Myths.
There are different ways to use them e.g:
Work in teams of 2-4, roll the dice and generate four images or words from the grid to make up a story together. This can be a short talking task, they might write a story summary or use it to help them plan a myth.
Children roll the dice and create a sentence using the words or image to ‘w
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2nd - 10th
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Writing Prompts, Writing Roulette Game, Google Jamboard Sticky Notes
Writing Roulette GameIdeal for use with students in a classroom settingProvides a fun and engaging way to practice writing and storytelling skillsComes with five different colored sticky notes: yellow (character), blue (quotation), pink (setting), green (conflict), and orange (theme)Students generate one literary element per sticky note, then mix up the notes and use them to create their own unique storyFree Jamboard template available for useEncourages creativity and encourages students to thin
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3rd - 12th
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Figurative Language Matching Activity
This activity takes anything from 20 minutes up to 30 minutes as students have fun trying to organise each language feature example under its heading. Students will match each of the 6 examples of each language feature under its heading and definition. I have found it challenging in the past to find fun but relevant and challenging language feature activities, so I created this to use and I use it every year without fail. It works for a variety of ages and challenges the students enough to keep
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Alphabet Game - Drama Class Warm-up!
Awesome warm-up for a Drama class of students grade 7+. Helps students creatively engaged, get focused and comfortable on stage or as a precursor to an improv unit! Could also be used in an English class for creative writing brainstorming.
Product includes game description, extensions and modifiers, Ontario Grade 9 curriculum connections etc.
Created by Dramatic-Roots. Keywords: Warm-up, Improv, Drama, Game, Activity, Teamwork, Stage Presence, Class Starter, Focus, Concentration, Character E
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7th - 10th
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{FREE} One Million Dollar Challenge! [Icebreaker Activity]
This is a fun icebreaker to do with middle and high school students.
How would you spend $1,000,000?
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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