483 results
High school creative writing handouts for Google Apps
Punctuating Dialogue - Embedding Quotations Grammar Worksheets - Quotation Marks
Teach students about punctuating dialogue using these grammar worksheets, games, and activities! Students will learn about embedding quotations and the proper use of quotation marks with this modern and engaging lesson. Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®!Included with these Punctuating Dialogue Grammar Worksheets:✏️ Punctuating Dialogue Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® & Google Slides®✏️ Punctuating Dialogue Informational Handout✏️ Punctuating Dialogue Practice Ac
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 10th
Types:
15 Secondary Writing Lessons with Practice
These fifteen mini-lessons with practice can help every secondary student writer improve. When you use this print-and-go set, whether as a writer's notebook, a set of bellringers, writing station work, or a summer project, you'll be helping each of your writers advance across disciplines and across different types of assignments. From the Reviews: "This is AMAZEBALLS great! Not only are there clear examples comparing the 'before' and 'after' application of the lesson, but there are also writing
Grades:
7th - 12th
Show Don't Tell Creative Writing Worksheets | Print | Digital | Easel
One of the most important techniques a writer can master is learning to SHOW action rather than TELL the reader about it. Although many writers are aware of the importance of the technique, they are not sure how to accomplish it. This lesson presents 5 easy ways to show rather than tell and provides students with exercises to practice what they have learned. Your students will have fun learning to show rather than tell and in doing so will greatly improve their writing. Here's what teachers are
Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
Also included in: Creative Writing Exercises and Activities Bundle | Print | Digital
Dissect a Poem: Complete Anatomy of Poem Activity EDITABLE
Dissect a Poem: Complete Anatomy of a Poem Activity - Editable in Microsoft Word
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
This exercise breaks down the different types of poems, parts of a poem, figurative language, and translation. Easy to read and understand, with plenty of examples. Teacher's guide included.
Updated: Differentiated student handouts with blanks now included AND Microsoft Word (both .doc and .docx formats) student copies, so you can cu
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
Types:
CCSS:
How to Write a Spooky Horror Story Brochure: Helpful Guide for a Mini-Unit
Help students write SCARY GOOD horror stories with this 100% editable reference brochure that takes them through the writing process step by step. This resource will complement any spooky narrative unit. Inside, the brochure covers creating a spooky setting, crafting authentic characters & terrifying monsters, hooking the reader, creating a mood of fear with sensory details, planning out the plot & pacing the story, injecting suspense into the narrative, and using language as a tool to m
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 12th
Types:
Kim's Convenience: A Complete Unit - Digital & Print!
If your class is studying the dramatic play Kim's Convenience this school year, get ready for lots of laughter and perhaps a few tears! Kim's Convenience, written by Canadian playwright Ins Choi, is a play about a Korean-Canadian family living in Toronto, Ontario. After its incredible success on the stage, Kim's Convenience was adapted into a television sitcom by the CBC, lasting five seasons.The unit includes OVER 300 pages/slides worth of resources (worksheets, activities, lesson plans, assess
Grades:
9th - 11th
Types:
First Week of School "Get to Know You" Questionnaire
I used this packet the first week of school to get to know my students! After introducing the packet on the first day, students worked on it as their "bell ringer" or "do now" activity when they first came into class. Each day has 10-15 questions that range from favorite colors, candies, and sports teams, to asking students how they learn best, how they show themselves love, and how they are motivated. I plan on keeping these in a binder to reference as needed throughout the year!Examples of
Grades:
5th - 12th
Types:
Emily Dickinson “I’m Nobody” Poetry Analysis + Modern Poem, Fame Theme, CCSS
This easy to deliver one-day lesson uses the work of American poet Emily Dickinson to guide a discussion of many students’ dream of becoming a social media influencer/TikTok Famous. The student handout includes a copy of Emily Dickinson’s well-known poem, “I’m Nobody! Who are You?,” to compare with a modern poem written on the same theme. The handout includes a set of 10 short-answer critical thinking questions that will require students to dig back into the text and their own minds to find the
Grades:
8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Types:
CCSS:
Narrative Writing: This I Believe Essay and Prewriting Organizers
Narrative Writing: This I Believe Essay and Prewriting Organizers are a useful complement to writing workshop. The organizers help students to brainstorm and clarify their beliefs before writing a narrative essay expounding upon one of their core beliefs. This resource can be used with the This I Believe Curriculum, and the website has lots of links to personal/narrative essay writing for inspiration.I use this activity early in the year to get started with writing workshop.RELATED PRODUCTSMy L
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 12th
Hooks/Opening Lines/Attention-Getters, Introductions Writing Lesson
Writing a catchy hook or crafting an appropriate attention-getter for any mode of writing can be tricky for students. It's, after all, the first piece of the essay that everybody reads, so it's certainly one of the most crucial tools in an author’s toolbox. In this no-prep lesson plan for teaching students to write a successful opening line, students will see examples of some of the best opening lines from the "real world" and how those can be translated into their own writing. Student Experie
Grades:
7th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
103 Essay & Writing Prompts for Winter | Middle & High School Writing Topics
Huge collection of over 100 quality writing prompts to celebrate winter and the special celebrations of the months of December through February*! Stop frantically searching Google for writing prompts and essay topics for your students! These high-quality, unique, and fun Writing Prompts for Winter include winter-themed writing prompts for Research papers, Argumentative/Persuasive Essays, Expository/Informative Essays, Descriptive/Narrative Essays, Response to Quote/Response to Literature-Poetr
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th
Types:
Historical Thinking Skills: Understanding Perspective with Shrek!
In this lesson, students are introduced to the importance of understanding historical perspectives and biases. Includes: - 9 slides- 2 page worksheet - teacher directions/video Students "time travel" back to Far Far Away, a town in the movie Shrek. They then have to imagine they are witnessing a very important historical event in town. The teacher will play the clip from the movie and the students have to pick one person to "be" and then write a news report from that person's perspective. They w
Grades:
4th - 12th
Types:
Flash Fiction Writing, Micro Fiction, Short Story Writing
Introduce more creative writing into your classroom with this Flash Fiction Activity! Whether you have just finished a short story unit or just read a few short stories in your ELA classroom, have your students write a a flash fiction short story to assess their literary terms and figurative terms knowledge. You can accomplish all of this with Flash Fiction writing!This activity is perfect for...Centers/StationsWriting stationsAssessmentShort Story UnitCreative Writing Flash Fiction is also know
Grades:
5th - 12th
Types:
Also included in: Writing Bundle-Essay, Argument, Creative and Informational Writing
End of Year Activity - Letter to My Future Self Freebie - Distance Learning
I always close out the school year with this fun and easy (NO GRADE) activity! Students write a letter to their future selves. PDF and Google Slides versions available. In class activity: I ask them to bring in a self-address envelope, with a forever stamp on it. They place their letter in the envelope when they are finished. They can write as little or as much as they like! This is private; I tell them that I will not read them! I save them and send them the year that they graduate from high sc
Grades:
5th - 12th
Types:
AP English Language and Composition Rhetorical Modes - Writing Genres - AP Lang
Need a hand teaching all the expository modes without reinventing the wheel? Need a framework for rhetorical analysis lessons? Help students to dip their toes in to narration, description, cause-effect, process analysis, extended definition, comparison-contrast, and classification-division. With this resource, students will analyze each mode and write in each mode.The following modes (academic genres) are addressed in this resource:Narration Description Cause-EffectProcess AnalysisExtended Defin
Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
Creative Writing Prompts - Daily Writing Journal Prompts, Digital Choice Board
Includes 3 weeks' worth of creative writing prompts to use for daily writing journal prompts, narrative writing story starters, and other writing activities! Suitable for online learning with a digital choice board formatted for Google Classroom®.Included with these Creative Writing Prompts for Middle School and High School:✏️ 15 Creative Writing Prompts for Student Choice - Digital & PrintStudents can select a prompt from a list of creative and engaging topicsProvided in digital format usi
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 10th
Types:
Horror Unit Bundle | Narrative Writing Mini-Lessons and More | Scary Story
Beware! Many approach the horror genre with devilish glee. Push students to craft psychological thrillers rather than reproducing cheap, meaningless gore and gratuitous violence. Encourage students to steer clear of tired clichés—killer clowns with their crusty, white make-up and painted on smiles unless, of course, student authors develop killer backstories and motives to match. Emphasize that every story—especially horror stories—must have theme. Packed with mini-lessons that put fire their ey
Grades:
7th - 9th
FREE Plot Diagram: Story Mountain (Digital and Print)
This DIGITAL and Print ‘Story Mountain’ works for ANY novel, film or other narrative text. Students use the prompts to map major plot points, with the mountain graphic serving as a visual metaphor of the process. Optimised for Google Slides, PowerPoint or Printable (pdf), this activity is perfect for ANY English classroom from upper primary to high school, whether in-class or distance learning.Love this activity? Check out 35 more like it included in my ‘Digital and Print Activities for ANY Nov
Grades:
5th - 9th
Types:
Blackout POEtry Edgar Allan Poe - American Literature - Halloween Activity
Perfect for in-person or online classes!Get your students excited about Edgar Allan Poe and poetry with this engaging blackout poetry activity. Use as a stand-alone activity, sub plan, or Halloween lesson for secondary students.What this resource includes:-Teacher guide-Detailed lesson plan-PDF half sheets to cut or fold for student poems-Digital student templates for online blackout poems-Presentations available in Google Slides and PowerPointPLEASE NOTE: These materials should only be used in
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 11th
Types:
CCSS:
Creative Writing High School Curriculum with Distance Learning Solution
Resource Details:Color-coded 90-day fall semester calendar reveals detailed daily lesson plans which include daily objectives aligned to CCSS along with agendas for 50-60 min. classes. Blank spring calendar included, so you can easily copy and paste the days into the next semester. Within each agenda handouts, prezis, slideshows, videos, etc. are linked to provide you with everything you need to teach the entire course, but you can also review the days and organize them to accommodate your ow
Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
CCSS:
Writer's Workshop Bundle- 20 Lessons to Improve Grammar & Punctuation
Elevate your writing lessons with this comprehensive resource featuring 20 Mini-Lessons tailored to meet writing curriculum expectations.Each Mini Lesson handout is meticulously crafted to include:Punctuation or Grammar Rule: Clear and concise explanation of a specific rule.Examples: Illustrative sentences to aid understanding.Learning Goals: Clearly stated goals in student-friendly language.Writer’s Notebook Practice: Quick writing prompts to apply newfound knowledge.Annotation Steps: Guidance
Grades:
8th - 12th
Types:
Also included in: Bundle- Grammar & Punctuation in Middle and High School
Writer's Workshop ENL1W Bundle- 20 Lessons for Language Continuum
Attention Ontario Grade 9 English teachers! Elevate your Grade 9 English Language Conventions Continuum lessons with this comprehensive resource featuring 20 Mini-Lessons tailored specifically to meet Ontario curriculum standards.Each Mini Lesson handout is meticulously crafted to include:Punctuation or Grammar Rule: Clear and concise explanation of a specific rule.Examples: Illustrative sentences to aid understanding.Learning Goals: Clearly stated goals in student-friendly language.Writer’s No
Grades:
8th - 10th
Types:
Also included in: ENL1W Bundle! Grade 9 English Resources
Narrative Essay - PEER Editing Checklist
Are your students in the final stages of writing their narrative essay draft? Are you looking for an easy, editable checklist for students to use when peer/partner editing their narratives? Then this is the resource for you! This checklist includes:12 yes or no questions for partners to check offComment sections for partners to leave positive/negative feedback
Grades:
4th - 12th
NARRATIVE WRITING UNIT Bundle--Hero's Journey and Screenwriting Creative Writing
Two engaging and challenging narrative units for your classroom! If you like this resource, check out the rest of my store here! Other resources from my store you may like:FREE Song Title PoetryShakespeare Comedies Poster BundleGatsby Character Posters Did you know that if you leave a review, you get TPT credits? Let others know about your experience with this resource and save on future TPT purchases!
Grades:
8th - 11th
Showing 1-24 of 483 results
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands