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Free short stories projects
Read All About My Summer Break **First Week of School Writing Activity**
This activity is intended to be used during the first week of school.
Students will brainstorm events from their summer break and organize them before writing them into a short paper. Students are given detailed directions, a brainstorming page (graphic organizer) and final draft paper for them to write their final draft about their summer.
This activity is a great way to assess your students' writing abilities at the beginning of the year, as well as allow each student to share information
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3rd - 6th
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Creative Narrative Writing Sample Grades 4-5 (From the Complete Guide Resource)
This is a few sample planning pages from my creative narrative writing "no prep" unit. In the full resource, all of the organizers and teacher models are included. This will help you get started with creative narrative by providing your students with a prompt, elements of creative narrative, and character brainstorming.Need more writing resources?Buy the full Complete Guide to Writing ResourceJust get the full creative narrative writing resource⭐️ To learn more about using this resource, check o
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4th - 5th
3rd, 4th, 5th Grade Narrative Writing Unit Sample - Story Planning Mini Lessons
Do your students need help planning out their narrative stories? Here are two FREE mini-lessons directed at helping students plan their stories out in a meaningful way.Download this free sample to get a peek at what my full writing units look like.This is a sample from my Narrative Writing Unit. Click here to view that unit.This resource includes BOTH printable and Google Drive documents. This will work for you if you are Distance Learning, Face-to-Face, or Hybrid.Students will start planning a
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3rd - 5th
Personal Narrative Writing Sample Grades 4-5 (From the Complete Guide Resource)
This is a few sample planning pages from my personal narrative writing "no prep" unit. In the full resource, all of the organizers and teacher models are included. This will help you get started with a personal narrative unit by providing your students with a prompt, elements of creative narrative, and character brainstorming lessons.Buy the full Complete Guide to Writing ResourceOr, just get the full creative narrative writing resource.Elements of Personal NarrativeBrainstormingPlanningRough Dr
Grades:
4th - 5th
"The Tell Tale Heart" Figurative Language Scavenger Hunt
There is a ton of figurative language in "The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe! This allows you to have students match the figurative language terms, identify examples, and then choose one example and make it come to life!Note: You need to make a copy of the file that is located in the eye. I cannot share it with your students.
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6th - 12th
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"The Most Dangerous Game" Characterization Activity
"The Most Dangerous Game" Body Biography is an activity to help students with characterization. In my class, we always begin the year with this story to review basic literary terms. I always want to have a lesson the first week of school that is engaging, yet high-level. This activity is aligned with both TEKS and Common Core Standards. A grading rubric is also attached. I would recommend having students work in pairs or groups of three, however, this works well individually as well. This lesson
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9th - 12th
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Film Review template
An entertaining and useful template for the lessons devoted to those who likes to pass the evening watching a good movie, as well as a great reason to brush up various genres, talk about them and develop speking skills.How it works.Students write short reviews of their favorite or any recently viewed films (come up with intriguing annotations, draw posters and share opinions about the most successful and not so good moments of films), and then in pairs or groups, exchange their works and discuss
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Readers Theater: Rumpelstiltskin with visual script | Freebie
Students love to act out familiar stories, such as Rumpelstiltskin; and this Readers Theater is the perfect tool to help your Emergent & Early Readers to develop their reading skills. A very simple activity that can be used as a classroom project or part of your Read To Friend station. This product is great for students as English Language Learners & students with Special Education.In this resource you will find:Visual Leveled script (Level A - Level E)High Frequency word cards for each
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K - 1st
Book Activity - Let the Children March - Poster
Such a powerful story written by Monica Clark-Robinson and illustrated by Frank Morrison. Let the Children March reminds students that even they have the ability to make a change. This activity allows students to create a child holding a sign for a metaphorical march. Students color the boy or girl character, write on their own sign, cut, then glue the three pieces together. Writing Prompt ideas:What would you want written on a sign during this same march?If you went to a protest or march today,
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PreK - 6th
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Where the Wild Things Are Sequencing FlipBook
This template can be used for sequencing and corresponds to the story "Where the Wild Things Are" It includes 5 pages key sequencing words such as first, then, next, and finally. Each page provides lines for writing and a blank space for students to draw a coordinating picture.
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1st - 4th
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Whole Brain Teaching Visual Writing Game
NEW and IMPROVED! Now with LEVEL 2!
Looking for a fun way to get your students to write interesting sentences? You've come to the right place.
Introducing the Visual Writing Game. Based on Chris Biffle's Writing Game (see www.wholebrainteaching.com) this version makes everything VISUAL so students can find the words they're looking for by matching up the symbols.
Star = article
Diamond = adjective
Square = noun
Arrow = verb
Circle = preposition
Your students will beg you to play the game.
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PreK - 5th
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"The Tell-Tale Heart" Mock Trial
This is a mini-unit where students hold a trial for the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" to determine whether or not he was criminally insane at the time of the murder. Assignment sheet, research document links, and rubric included.
This is relevant for advanced middle school English classes.
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6th - 8th
Short Story Creative Project and Rubric
This creative project assignment was designed for a ninth grade English class, but could be adapted to a middle school ELA class as well. Students are required to choose an object of significance from a short story read and discussed in class (a list is provided on the assignment sheet, but can be edited). They must use basic materials at home to recreate the object, using textual evidence as a guide. Two different rubrics are included for grading flexibility.
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7th - 10th
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Yellow Wallpaper Full Unit
[UPDATE -- Links have been updated and expanded. Quiz key coming shortly.] This short unit on "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman includes the full text of the story, an active reading guide, a comprehension quiz, prompts for teaching about symbolism, and a great group research project with full instructions.
Grades:
8th - 12th
Civilization Project - to be used with Weslandia
This is a project I created to go along with a story from our basal reading program called, Weslandia by Paul Fleischman. You can also buy this book (on Amazon, etc.)
After reading the story, students will create their own civilization, just like Wesley does in the story. They will have to include several components of their civilization and present it in a creative way. They can do a poster, create a diorama, etc. I also had my students create theirs in PowerPoint. Since I wanted them to
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4th - 6th
Tell-Tale Heart Mock Trial
This is a 3-5 day, 2 page culminating project for "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. It is aligned to 8th grade standards, but is appropriate for grades 7-10. This project focuses on making evidence-based inferences and argumentative writing. Students are asked to determine if they find the defendant (the narrator) guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity. First the collect evidence for both sides. Then, they choose their side and develop their argument. Finally, they conduct their tria
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7th - 11th
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The Gift of the Poinsettia
The Poinsettia flower has a background story for a lot of Mexican families. The book "The Gift of the Poinsettia" by Pat Mora & Charles Ramirez Berg tells the story of how the Poinsettia came to be red and how a small gift can be something great. It is a great to read for PreK-4th grades. The illustrations are also great to look at. This book will teach your students one way Christmas is celebrated in Mexico. The book itself is also bilingual. It can be read in English and Spanish.
This ac
Grades:
PreK - 4th
Fairytale
Hansel and Gretel
retold and illustrated with photographs taken in the Hesse region of Germany, where the Grimm Brothers found the original folktale in the early 19th Century,
This is a 24 page full color picture book presented in 14 spreads. It contains original text at a minimum 5th grade reading level and original photographs taken in the area of Germany from which the tale was collected.
It could be used in a literature class, a creative writing class, a German or world culture culture. St
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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How do children celebrate Christmas around the world?
Countries included: USA, Mexico, Sweden, France, Brazil, Netherlands, Australia.Book partially colored and black and white for children to color as they learn about different Christmas holiday. traditions.
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PreK - 7th
"Lamb to the Slaughter" Court Case Project
In this complete project lesson plan, students support arguments for the outcome of a court case involving Mrs. Mary Maloney, main character of Roald Dahl's short story"Lamb to the Slaughter". This resource includes specific directions, graphic organizers, writing guides and sample starter sentences as well as useful transition words.
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9th - 12th
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Ain't Gonna Paint No More Painting or Coloring sheets
This is a fun and Easy painting project you can do with your Students or kids at home after reading the book "I Ain't Gonna Paint No More". by Karen Beaumont. You can read this to your pre-K, kindergarten, or 1st grade students right before their first time painting as an example of what not to do.
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PreK - 1st
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Cinderella Compare/Contrast Dodecahedron Project
Students are to read several versions of Cinderella (from a variety of cultures) and choose two stories to compare and contrast. Students then construct a dodecahedron by completing a writing task on each of the twelve faces. The project addresses comparing, contrasting, summarizing and point of view. It is designed for a unit on fairy tales for the 5th & 6th grades.
The PREVIEW includes photos of STUDENT EXAMPLES.
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Grades:
5th - 6th
Reading Activities
DID YOU KNOW THAT SEA OTTERS HOLD HANDS WHILE THEY SLEEP? I thought that was just so cute so I wrote a book about it called "Close at Heart!" It is a fable that takes you through the journey of two adorable sea otters that drift away from each other one night. Follow the otter's mini adventure as he tries to find his way back home to be with his otter friend. There is also an appearance by a very kind pelican, but you will have to read the story to see just how special she is. These precious o
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PreK - 5th
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6th Grade Fictional Story Writing - "Write the End" to a Zombie Trilogy
After reading a 3 part story (post-apocalyptic, zombies) from ReadWorks.org together (The Run, Refueling, Searching for Survivors), students wrote the fourth and final part of the story for their end of 6 weeks final project.
Their writing needed to include a variety of elements to be successful:
-Vocabulary from the series so far
-Dialogue (to review our learning of Dramatic Elements)
-Lyrics from a song or lines from a poem incorporated into the story in some meaningful way (to review our lea
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5th - 6th
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