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Middle school creative writing task cards $5-10
Halloween Narrative Writing & Learning Stations
HALLOWEEN WRITING ACTIVITIES: Halloween is the perfect opportunity to engage your students in a creative writing assignment. This resource takes students through a process-based approach that has them experiment with various elements of fiction. They will be building so many narrative writing skills and having a great deal of fun while they do! Be sure to check out the preview for a detailed overview.This resource includes:✅ Learning stations for experimenting with point of view, setting, atmos
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Learning Stations Mega Bundle
BEST SELLER! Build-a-Story Creative Writing Card Prompts | Story Elements
❤️ "This is one of the best resources I have purchased from this site. It was so easy for my students to have a purpose in their writing. It tied in nicely to our Story Element unit. After my students created their stories, we invited our administrators in for a "story time."❤️ "This Resource is so much fun! I picked this resource because I really liked the creativity of the characters and their problem/plot. I feel like a lot of thought went into the types of characters, settings, and problem
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3rd - 6th
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Teambuilding Trivia Icebreaker Game 100 cards
This team building trivia icebreaker game asks students to work in pairs or small groups while they have one minute to list as many answer choices as possible after a prompt is read. Use for:✏️ Fun Fridays✏️ Brain Breaks✏️ Sub Plans/ Rewards after testing✏️ Classroom teambuilding✏️ Back to school icebreaker✏️ Extra time before the bellHow to Play: 1. The teacher reads a "List..." prompt to the class. For example, "List... Movies with a number in its title....GO!" 2. Students have 1 minute to
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6th - 8th
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Narrative Writing Learning Stations
NARRATIVE WRITING STATIONS: This bundle of writing stations is designed to take your students through a process-based approach to creating a piece of narrative writing. You can use all of them for an exploration of narration that takes you a week or more OR you can pick and choose to use them one at a time.In this resource you will find a variety of options:PHOTO PROMPT LEARNING STATIONS These can be used to help students find inspiration for telling a narrative. They can be used for writing pro
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Secondary ELA Mega Bundle
Finding & Teaching THEME: Task Cards & More w/ Bonus POWER POINT
A FAVORITE WITH MY STUDENTS! THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS MY ORIGINAL "TEACHING THEME AND MORE" PLUS POWER POINT VERSION OF PRODUCT! (BOTH LOCATED IN CONVENIENT ZIP FOLDER). I HAVE COMPLETELY REFORMATTED FOR A BETTER VIEW ON SMART BOARD AND HAVE ADDED ADDITIONAL COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS FOR EACH PASSAGE.These short stories are HIGH INTEREST, realistic fiction, written with an identifiable THEME. I wrote them for the purpose of students to gain confidence with understanding and identifying the tricky
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: COMPARING MYTHS, FINDING THEME & MUCH MORE! ELA MEGA BUNDLE !
Scary Story Writing 101 (Interactive or Distance Learning)
Scary Story Writing 101Scary Story Writing 101 is an entertaining and effective way to review narrative story elements. Students use photos - embedded with single-line prompts - to write creepy stories they’ll want to share. This is, without question, one of my students’ favorite narrative units of all time. Students will...…use contrasting settings to create a mood, …design a “something’s not right” event or character, and…surprise readers with a heart-stopping“Uh-Oh” Moment. What do I get? 3
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5th - 10th
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Cause and Effect
Cause and Effect: 56 pages - this Common Core aligned unit is packed with fun and useful ideas that will help them identify cause and effect relationships. Activities were carefully chosen to keep your students excited and engaged. 24 picture cards and recording sheets were NEWLY included to help your students have better understanding about the lesson.
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32 Cause and Effect Task Cards
24 Cause and Effect Picture Cards
2 Task Cards Recording Sheets
Cause and Effect Introduction Tips
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2nd - 6th
Finding & Teaching THEME: Task Cards & More (DIFFERENTIATED)
A FAVORITE WITH MY STUDENTS!These short stories are HIGH INTEREST, realistic fiction, written with an identifiable THEME. I wrote them for the purpose of students to gain confidence with understanding and identifying the tricky concept of THEME. Teaching theme is fun if you have the right resource! This resource contains enough material for WEEKS OF INSTRUCTION. Although the stories were written for teaching theme, they can also be used to review or introduce CHARACTER TRAITS/CONFLICT, STORY E
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3rd - 6th
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PICK A PROJECT EARLY FINISHER CHALLENGE CARDS
'Pick a Project’ is a display that includes 30 early finisher challenge cards. Your students can go to the display and pick one of these creative writing tasks if they’re finished their work early or need an extension activity! The resource includes a ‘Pick a Project’ display title, as well as 30 colourful challenge cards, each about half the size of an A4 page. ✰ If you have any further questions or requests, please fill out the Q&A form below, send us a message on Instagram @teacherteacher
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3rd - 8th
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WINTER HOLIDAY Drama Activities (Grade 4-8)
Inspire your students to explore their creativity with this fun winter holiday activity. This resource includes 2 tasks: a skit assignment (groups) and a storytelling assignment (individual).This is a fantastic activity for the last few weeks of school before the winter holidays. It allows students to have fun and learn about the Elements of Drama. All scenarios and settings in this activity are related to winter, not any one particular holiday. Santa Claus is included as a winter character, but
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4th - 7th
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Descriptive Writing Learning Stations
Whether students are writing description, narration, argument or opinion pieces, they need to be descriptive. These learning stations will help your students practice the skills they need to write effective and engaging description (now updated for distance learning).In the package you will find:Eight Stations that focus on using descriptive imagery, figurative language, effective word choice, showing, describing a person, thoughts & feelings, a concept and a scene.Titles & Task Cards to
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Learning Stations Mega Bundle
Writer's Workshop Stations
Writing Workshop Stations: Writer's workshop focuses students on the process necessary to create great writing. It's an excellent strategy for teaching and learning, but it can be hard to organize. These writer's workshop stations will help you with that. Be sure to check the preview for more detail!Imagine a classroom where students move from station to station, taking responsibility for their learning, and following the process necessary for creating a strong piece of writing. These writing w
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Learning Stations Mega Bundle
Winter Activities | ELA and Literacy Centers for Upper Elementary
Newly updated with reading passages, a cleaner look, and a more modern feel.These are great for literacy centers!Included are Language Arts centers for the entire month of January!There are 54 centers total with instructions on how to implement them into your classroom. Each center comes with a task card and a corresponding worksheet (with the exception of the "teacher directed center". I leave that task card blank, because as the classroom teacher, you will know what to teach your small groups
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Monthly Themed Literacy Centers for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Grade
Main Idea!
Main Idea: 44 pages - Let your students learn about main idea by searching for the main idea and the supporting details! This unit has helpful activities that your students will surely enjoy.
Each of the task card contains informational text that could help your students master the skills of spotting and giving the main idea and the supporting details.
This unit includes:
5 Main Idea and Supporting Details Posters
60 Main Idea Task Cards
3 Give the Supporting Details Activities
4 Main Idea Wo
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Gifted and Talented Unit - Research & Design Your Own Fantasy World
Gifted and Talented Unit - Research the Fantasy Fiction Genre and Design Your Own Fantasy Fiction World and Story
The purpose of this unit is to explore the genre of fantasy, focusing on the creative process of developing a fantasy world (setting, language, characters, plot, sub-plots, etc.)
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★Check it out!: This unit is included in the Gifted and Talented Middle Grades Unit Bundle at a discounted price!
I developed this enrichment unit for my grades 3-5 gifted and talen
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4th - 8th
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MURDER MYSTERY WRITING STATIONS FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL (DIGITAL OR PRINT)
Want to engage your students in a fun and unique writing experience? These stations are perfect! Designed to take students through the entire process of brainstorming and planning their own murder mystery story, they will have your students excited to start writing!File includes printable worksheets and links to Google Drive compatible digital worksheets and stations.*****************************************************************************View some of my other best selling products:Conflict
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: CREATING A MURDER MYSTERY PODCAST (ENTIRE UNIT OF WORK)
DIGITAL Descriptive Writing Prompts for Use with Google Classroom
My kids are VERY visual learners, which is why I made this resource for my kiddos. Included are 40 pictures, each having a first line to their story. The first couple of sentences are sometimes the hardest for my 3rd graders, and these cards just give them a little nudge to get thinking about the picture and the rest of their writing. This is a DIGITAL file, which means that this can be used with Google Slides, Google Drive, and Google Classroom.There are a ton of ways to use these prompts. *Des
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: ULTIMATE Digital Resource Bundle to Use with Google Classroom
Narrative Writing Prompts Activity - Creative Story Starters - 50 Tasks
50 unique narrative writing prompts! Motivate and inspire your students with these creative story starters that not only give a variety of unique prompts but also provide structured guidance into building and writing an interesting narrative. In this packet, you will receive two PDF files containing.• 50 Writing Task Cards and 50 Writing Task Worksheets. • Each unique creative writing task comes with its own set of instructions, expectation directions, and story challenges for your gifted and ta
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3rd - 6th
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Christmas Writing Prompts with Pictures for Narrative Writing
21 fantastic Christmas and winter themed writing prompts for exciting and creative narrative writing that students will love to write! Each Christmas writing prompt includes a visual and a written element to inspire creative writing of a high standard from students.Your students will love writing narratives using the thought-provoking and engaging prompts and story starters. Students engage with the visually attractive prompts and write impressive stories like never before! No preparation necess
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4th - 8th
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Figurative Language Task Cards & Activities for Middle School (Print & Digital)
Use these Keys to Figurative Language Task Cards to help students understand the deeper meanings of various literary elements! This resource is designed with students grades 5-9 in mind.NOTE: As of January 19, 2021, a digital version is included for distance learning purposes! It is compatible with Google Slides and Google Classroom. Unlock creative writing with these figurative language "key" task cards! Students will complete 15 task cards to help develop a better understanding of the followi
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5th - 9th
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Note Taking and Paraphrasing - Digital and Printable Bundle
Scaffolded activities and differentiated reading task cards to teach note taking and paraphrasing skills! Posters, scaffolded activities, bookmarks and differentiated reading task cards - this resource includes everything you need to teach and practice note taking and paraphrasing within your classroom.This bundle includes 2 versions of my best-selling Note Taking and Paraphrasing resource - one printable and one Google Slides version. Perfect for distance learning and hybrid teaching contexts!
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4th - 7th
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Figurative Language Resource Guide | Grades 3-6 | Distance Learning
{UPDATE - 4/2022 - ADDED ADAGES + PUNS} This resource guide is the perfect addition to your curriculum to help reinforce recognition and understanding of figurative language in literature, and encourage the use of figures of speech in your students' writing! Students need LOTS of practice to memorize and use figurative language, and this guide has posters for visual reminders, task cards that can be used at a station for recursive review, 25 activity sheets for students to work on the skill, a
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: BUNDLE | Figurative & Imagery/Sensory Language Resource Guides | DIGITAL
Narrative Writing Practice and Activities
This packet contains over 70 pages of ready-to-use printables and activities to help your students improve their narrative writing.
This product provides many different ways for students to practice specific narrative writing skills, such as focus, structure, character development, and word choice/voice. (These are the four sections of this resource.)
The activities in this packet may be used in any order. You may even choose to use this from start to finish as a personal narrative or fictional
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3rd - 6th
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Writing Prompts Fan Bundle for fun picture prompts debate topics fun topics
Included in these resource is 135 writing prompts for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders for during writing workshop or when students don't know what to write. There are prompts for fun stuff, debate topics, fantasy topics, personal topics, philanthropy, technology, deep thinking, and then a variety of picture writing prompts. Includes 135+ prompts and pictures to inspire students to write with 8 different categories so students can easily make their way to their particular areas of interest. The
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4th - 6th
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