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Middle school creative writing graphic organizers for Microsoft Word
Narrative Writing Outline - Worksheet with Student Example Outline & Narrative
This one-page "Narrative Writing Outline" helps students brainstorm and organize their ideas before writing their own fictional or personal narrative (story). This outline includes sections for: Attention-Grabber, Beginning (characters, setting, conflict), Middle (complications/events, climax), and End (resolution, message/meaning). This outline will help students confidently write their own narrative and will help them include all the necessary components of a narrative. Also included are stud
Grades:
4th - 10th
Language Arts Writing A Play Script Basic Outline Template Graphic Organizer
This is a basic graphic organizer to use with your students when having them brainstorm ideas during the process of writing their own play. The outline template covers such topics as title, character, settings, scenes, main idea, climax, resolution, and narrator. This outline template is great to use with your special needs students or those who have a difficult time generating their thoughts on paper.
Grades:
5th - 10th
Identity Chart: Who Am I?
A simple, clear graphic organizer that shows four categories of identity, with questions for the students to answer about themselves under each category. Excellent for both self-awareness writing exercises and studying identity of characters in literature.
Grades:
6th - 10th
If I Were In Charge Of The World- Creative Poem Writing Activity
Students read the poem, "If I Were In Charge Of The World" by Judith Viorst. They then complete a planning page and a graphic organizer to create their own poems, explaining how life would be if they were in charge of the world.
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K - 9th
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A Collection of Legends, Tall Tales, Fables, and Folktales
There are 12 stories. Johnny Appleseed, The Golden Carp, Paul Bunyan/Lumberjacks, and Pecos Bill are tall tales. The Hare and the Tortoise and The Ant and the Grasshopper are fables. The Dreamcatcher/Native American games, The Spider, El Trauco, and Sleepy Hollow are legends. With each story genre there is a graphic organizer and revising sheet, so students can create their own story. Each story has 3-12 comprehension questions with answers.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Genre Unit of Study Bundle
Analyzing Memoirs - Graphic Organizer
This is a great lesson to do before having your students write their own memoir. Have your students complete this handout as they listen to memoirs being read. The radio podcasts on The Moth (themoth.org) are a great online resource for memoirs. It will help them to see how one can write a detailed, descriptive memoir about even a small moment.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Hero's Journey Create your own myth Narrative Writing Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer will help your students write their own myth using the formula of the hero's journey. Students will create their plot and then take steps to revise their myths using showing details, dialogue, sensory details, and strong verbs.
Grades:
5th - 9th
Narrative Writing Graphic Organizer Webs
These graphic organizers were created for my students while working on the brainstorming process of a personal narrative. They now know to remember their 5's for Writing: The 5 W's and The 5 Senses.
My students will replicate these organizers to help them on their state testing in March.
These organizers can also be used once students finish reading a story to assess their comprehension and understanding of the key elements.
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Grades:
1st - 12th
Sentence Patterning Chart: Use with GLAD
Sentence Patterning Chart. Teach sentence patterns using color coding. This works amazingly well, and the kids love it! You use the color of the word at the top (for example, nouns are always written in green). I model using the chart, then have the students use it for a first draft.
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Grades:
K - 6th
Narrative Writing Prompt & Graphic Organizer/Template
Do your writers need support developing a multi-paragraph essay? This highly scaffolded narrative writing template breaks down essay writing for your students into manageable pieces -giving first a prompt: "Write about an event or experience that changed your life", then directions for an introduction, setting the scene of your story, describing the event in detail, and concluding their writing. This one page, 2-sided writing template also has some self-reflection questions at the end. It is a
Grades:
2nd - 12th
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Descriptive Writing (5 senses) Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer has boxes for students to write words or phrases that describe how a person, place, or thing looks, feels, smells, tastes, or sounds.
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K - 8th
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Design a Magazine Cover & Write the Articles About Yourself
An assignment for students to create their own magazine about themselves and their interests. This handout includes planning sheets for the cover, a lengthy article, shorter articles, and evaluation criteria that can be customized to meet your own curriculum document requirements. There are notes at the end of the document to explain how the assignment can be customized and contact information if you have any questions.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Narrative Poetry Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer allows students the perfect pre-writing activity. It visually gives them a place to organize their thoughts before they begin drafting out their narrative poetry.
This is a 2 page worksheet.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
NEWS REPORT GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
This graphic organizer helps students organize their ideas and thoughts to develop effective and organized news reports. This graphic organizer works well with junior and intermediate level students.
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Middle-High School Paraphrasing and Citation Activity, Writing and Research
Teachers and/or Parents,As we know, far too many kids think it's OK just to copy and paste material straight from the Internet and hand it in as their own these days. With this product you will help show them otherwise and give them invaluable practice restating simple ideas in their own words.Simply put, this product will kick-start any unit you would like to teach on the writing process. Content-area teachers tell you can show your principals that you are doing your part to support school read
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Novel Study - Write the next chapter
This Microsoft Word document can easily be modified to fit any grade level and novel that you are currently teaching.
Students write the next chapter of a novel they are reading, practicing their creative writing skills, and reading comprehension.
This handout provides an outline of the assignment, the steps to follow, and a graphic organizer to help students plan the chapter.
Grades:
7th - 10th
Memoir Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer can first be used while reading a memoir. Students can pick out important elements of a good memoir while they read. Next, students can use this graphic organizer while they write their own memoir. This graphic organizer makes sure that the key elements of memoir will be included in their writing piece.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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GLAD friendly sentence patterning chart with definitions and pictures
If you know GLAD, you know that the sentence patterning chart is an amazing tool to help teach your students about sentence structures in a creative way. This sentence patterning chart can be printed for your students to create super silly sentences. It is set up in a student friendly manner, with simple definitions, arrows, and pictures to help your students remember what each column represents.
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PreK - 6th
Short Story Template - Creative Writing Plan
A GRAPHIC ORGANIZER chart for planning a short story. This is part of the Creative Writing Adaptation Assignment which can be also purchased in a BUNDLE with the Free Verse Poetry Template or can also be used separately. It is a great way to get students to PLAN and to THINK CRITICALLY about the elements of a short story that they should include.
Grades:
5th - 12th
Also included in: Creative Writing Adaptation Mini-Unit
The Hero's Journey Graphic Organizer Guide
2 sheets list the steps of the hero's journey in a graphic organizer and provide a blank template for students to fill in for example stories that follow the hero's journey. This can be used as a planning tool for developing their own hero's journey stories or to analyze how other stories fit the hero's journey.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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7 Charts that Divide 7 Basic Plots into 7 Sections Each
According to The Seven Basic Plots, by author Christopher Booker, the actual plots of most stories are not original. Rather, there are seven basic plots that get reused, refreshed, and remodeled - hopefully in original ways.These charts describe the basics of each of these plots and divide them into seven sections each: Exposition, Rising Action 1, Rising Action 2, Rising Action 3, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution. This helps them match up well with the 5-part “plot roller coaster” that ma
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Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
LOL: Humorous Fiction Unit
This 30 plus page file includes humorous fiction vocabulary words, practice worksheets, and quizzes, as well as handouts on irony, puns, parodies, and understatement. There are also handouts related to the humorous fiction stories "The Ransom of Red Chief," "Charles," and "Pecos Bill." There is also a planning sheet to help students write their own tall tale.
Grades:
6th - 10th
Descriptive Language Sheets - Writing Story Settings
Pack of 7 handy printable sheets that students can look at to help them choose subject-specific vocabulary for a descriptive writing activity. Sheets may be modified for your particular lesson, and it is suggested that you laminate these, as they are multi-use.
Included are 7 scene description sheets:
1) Castle scene
2) City scene
3) Outer space scene
4) Pirate ship/island scene
5) Dinosaur world scene
6) Forest scene
7) Beach/holiday scene
Each sheet includes examples of verbs, nouns, adject
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Realistic Fiction Graphic Organizer
This will help students brainstorm for thie realistic fiction stories.
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
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