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Free high school creative writing word walls
A List of Character Traits
This is a list of 174 different Character Traits. So often when I was teaching I wanted a list of traits so that my students could look at the list while describing characters. This also helps students get to know and understand different character traits.
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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List of Character Traits — 500 Words Characterization; Reference & Support Tool
This list includes 500 different Character Traits. This is a great resource for students to reference while describing characters or practicing characterization skills. You could post it around your room or print copies for students. Help your students expand their vocabulary and use words beyond "good" and "bad."
Grades:
4th - 12th
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Sensory Word List
A comprehensive list of sensory words organised by the different senses. Print or upload to a digital classroom for students to use to improve their descriptive writing or poetry.
Grades:
4th - 12th
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** GROUNDHOG DAY ** WRITING CENTER * WRITE THE ROOM * VOCABULARY SKILLS
***FUN FREEBIE*** Happy Groundhog Day! Have fun with your students this February 2nd by incorporating this free writing activity into your Groundhog Day celebration. Use as an indpependent or teacher-led writing centre. Can also be set up as a Write the Room activity. Excellent for creative writing, vocabulary building, word banks, word walls and word work. This package contains half-page black and white posters of Groundhog Day pictures with words. A smaller print-friendly version is also inclu
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Imagery Anchor Chart
This visual has examples of how students can use imagery in connection with the 5 senses.
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Neon Chalkboard Chevron Writing Pennant Banner
This is an adorable pennant banner for a writing bulletin board, center wall, or to showcase their writing. It has neon colors with a chalkboard background. The first and last letter includes a cute pencil graphic. All you need to do is print, cut, laminate, and hang with some cute ribbon. This will make your classroom writing area pop and all the kids will be dying to have their work show cased on this wall. Be sure to check out my neon alphabet wall, number wall, and spelling rules with ck tha
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PreK - 12th
Strong Verbs
Useful in any creative writing, ELL/ESL, or English class. This resource features a pre-made list of strong verbs, essential for descriptive writing. The verbs are broken down into useful categories, such as the 5 senses or speech actions, to help students incorporate them into their writing. This has been enormously helpful with bringing more creative writing into the classroom.
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4th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Pronoun Posters
Students struggle with remembering the different types of pronouns. I don't believe in rote memorization, but I do believe in using visual aids to promote and facilitate memory. Post these posters around the room to support understanding of pronouns and their uses. These will also support writing skills. You will be amazed in how often students will look up to use these visual aids!
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Figurative Language Posters
Introduce or reinforce figurative language, and elevate your classroom walls, with these colorful Figurative Language Posters! Designed to ignite creativity and inspire literary exploration, this set includes posters with definitions and clear, thoughtful examples of nine essential types of figurative language. Printable PDFs give you flexibility on how to use these posters--this resource would also be a great printable for students to glue in their notebooks and refer back to throughout the yea
Grades:
4th - 9th
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Cheat Sheet for the Basic Literary Elements
Students will have easy access to Literary Devices and Techniques. These sheets will allow students to have devices right at their fingertips for essay writing, literary analysis as well as poetry. This very useful for Creative Writing classes, AP Literature and ELA grades 7-12.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Descriptive Words List // Tone-Mood Words
Here is the Descriptive Words List I use with my Non Participant Observation Research Assignment Lesson that is included in my store.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Black History Month Alliteration Poem for MLK
Your students will absolutely love this activity! Students will brainstorm words related to the picture and/or a shared reading to express ideas to create an alliteration poem. Words can be displayed on a word wall as well for all to reference. Students have to make words work by using the same initial sound and manipulate language to create their own poetic lines. Students can work individually but can have more fun brainstorming descriptive words and creating lines together with a partner. S
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K - 12th
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Literary Terms Posters
This is a phenomenal set of 39 Literary Terms Posters (8.5" x 11") as pdfs, covering everything from Allegory to Metaphor. This educational set of posters is perfect for any classroom and will thoroughly engage your students. The posters provide the phonetic spelling, a definition, and a contextual example. And the best part is that they are free!Enjoy!This resource would work great with some of my other resources. Save Over 50% With A Growing Bundle English: Writing Units For The Year Grades 6
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The 5 Stage Writing Process Printables
Print these out at 95% and laminate them for an easily accessible reminder of the writing process for your students.Includes 6 posters:"The Writing Process", Pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, publishing
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Parts of Speech Posters
This is a quintessential set of 8 Parts of Speech Posters (8.5" x 11") as pdfs, covering everything from Nouns to Verbs. This educational set of posters is perfect for any classroom and will thoroughly engage your students. The posters provide the phonetic spelling, a definition, and a contextual example. And the best part is that they are free!Enjoy!This resource would work great with some of my other resources. Save Over 50% With A Growing Bundle English: Writing Units For The Year Grades 6 -
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Portable Word Wall
This is an essential resource in every primary classroom! This resource is a perfect space for students to personalize their dictionary with their own words. Whether it be environmental text, high frequency words, etc. students can refer back to their portable word wall for spelling those unfamiliar words. This resource allows easy access to important vocabulary at all times. I also love that it is portable! If a child is going to work in the writing center or they need to take their writing hom
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PreK - 12th
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Dead Words and Their Alternatives
Some words in the English language are overused or are frequently used inappropriately in the classroom. It is time we lay those words to rest. This blank template can be used to "kill" overused words or phrases in your writing curriculum. There are five lines for students to brainstorm alternatives to use in their writing.
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PreK - 12th
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Creative Writing: Characterization Vocabulary [Handout]
I was searching for a vocabulary handout specific to character personality traits and could not find one, so I made this handout to help students find words to express their character's personality.Each box holds a compiled list of words for a trait, for example, a box of words aligned with a hot-headed character, or with a confident character.This graphic handout (PDF) will help students expand their narrative-writing vocabulary, particularly around their characterization. There is an instructi
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7th - 9th
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Adverbs and Adjectives Cards
In my classroom, I've created a Writing Resource Wall where students can find cards with different resources which they can take back with them to their desks. To create these, I glued both the adjectives and adverbs together before laminating them so that students can have both lists with them as they write.
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4th - 12th
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Adjective Alphabet
Set for grade/year 3-8. Here are some ideas for you!Animal adjectives; students choose an animal and use the language device of alliteration to create a catchy character. Example: Cool, courageous and clever cat.Headlines: Use alliteration and Power of 3 to create a headline or slogan for a newspaper article or company.Word hunt: Each week have students investigate a word they don’t know and apply it in a sentence during word investigation time.Hangman with new words… who doesn’t love hangman?A
Grades:
3rd - 9th
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Growing up: When I am 64 by the Beatles
Growing up: Students looking at the future based on two texts
A) When I am 64 by the Beatles
B) Warning by Jenny Joseph
Special education: I teach grade 7-8 Modified academics. I have readers and writers that are at a grade 1-grade 8 level.
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2nd - 10th
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Thesaurus - Color Words
Have you been struggling to get your young writers to use more colourful language? Are they struggling to see the world in more colours than the basics? Do you want to make vocabulary building a fun and easy task?
Well look no further! Introducing Synonym Scrolls - Rainbow words.
Simply print, cut, laminate, and combine with a split pin and you have a mini thesaurus at your fingertips with all the main colours ready to use in your writing program. (While the word colour/color is US/UK speci
Grades:
2nd - 9th
List of Character Traits | Free
Looking for a list of character traits? Writers can choose from a comprehensive list of character traits to bring their characters to life in their creative writing.Readers can discover how to describe the characters they are reading about.Your A-Z List of Character Traits comes from the Super $1 Story Kit for any class. Ranging from Easy, through Medium to Advanced, you also get - 36 Character prompts 36 Setting prompts 36 Problem prompts 20 Narrative sentence prompts 3 Act Story Infographic St
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2nd - 12th
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Space and Star Themed Word Wall Circles
These are space/star themed word wall circles that you can cut out, laminate and put on your wall or white board. This document is 3 pages and contains the letters A through Z. Each page contains circles for 10 letters.
There will be more classroom materials with the same theme uploaded soon! Please let me know if there is something specific you are looking for with this look.
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Grades:
PreK - 12th
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