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Middle school creative writing resources for Microsoft Word $5-10
Writing a Short Story - Complete Unit
Your students will have their short story story written and completed in 15 days! This unit includes activities, specific lesson plans and every thing you need to help your students. My kids were very successful during this unit and enjoy it every year. It's positively directed but fast paced.
How to Write a Short Story
Day 1: Background Survey & Getting Excited Activity
Day 2: Character Development
Day 3: Continue Character Development & Setting Development: Where, When and We
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4th - 10th
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Realistic Fiction Writing Unit
This realistic fiction writing unit includes the following lessons:
1) Making a writing goal and generating ideas for a realistic fiction story
2) Generating Ideas: Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Selecting a seed idea/story idea
4) Developing believable characters
5) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivations
6) Planning your story: Story Mountains, Story Booklets, and Timelines
7) Show, Don't Tell
8) Grammar: Punctuating Dialogue
9) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of your Story
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4th - 8th
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Mystery Writing Unit Plans
These mystery writing unit plans include the following minilessons:
1) What makes a good Mystery story?
2) Planning Problem/ Solution
3) Planning Clues
4) Planning Characters
5) Planning Setting
6) Planning story: plot beginning, middle, and end
7) Building Suspense
8) Using Mystery Planning Sheet to Help Organize Writing
9) Focusing on Characters
10) Character Personality and dialogue
11) How to Use and Punctuate Dialogue (Conventions)
12) Editing
13) Revising Reminders
This also includes t
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4th - 7th
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Writer's Notebook Organization & Writer's Workshop Starter Kit!
This starter kit will show you some great ideas for organizing Writer's Notebooks and some sample lessons to help you implement the Writer's Workshop model easily, as well as ready-to-print tabs and student instructions for getting it started. This has served my students very well and has helped organize our writing time; I hope you find it helpful too!
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Exploring Creative Nonfiction and Personal Narrative for 9th Grade
This unit follows a two week plan that explores the genre of creative nonfiction and personal narrative, through readings, discussion and writing assignments. It culminates with students writing their own personal narrative. Although it is set up to follow a two week schedule it can easily be augmented with additional readings and class activities.
The unit provides lecture notes, prompts and activities. Daily lessons center around elements of writing: tone, point of view, sensory detail, imager
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8th - 10th
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Soundtrack of my Life Project
This is my FAVORITE project to do with middle schoolers. I have seen other adaptations of this, but this document is created by me with my own original ideas, sequence and rubric. In my 'Soundtrack of my Life' unit, we begin a 4 day course with an introduction where we listen to the song 'I Was Here' by Beyonce. I give students a sheet with the lyrics printed on them and ask students to, as we're listening, highlight/underline/circle/star one or more important verse that stands out to them. Afte
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5th - 12th
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Multi-Step Equations Storybook Project
This is a project that I look forward to every year. It's not often students get the opportunity to channel their creativity in math, so I try to fit in any opportunity that I can.
The Storybook Project requires students to think outside of the box, and metaphorically solve a multi-step equation. Students are challenged to personify the distributive property, combining like terms, as well as inverse operations and create a story that incorporates these mathematical procedures into its plot.
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6th - 9th
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Sample Personal Narratives (Exemplars)
There are 5 sample personal narratives to use as exemplars to help kids understand the features that go into writing a personal narrative! They are all in Microsoft word format so that they can be altered/edited as necessary to help you meet your teaching goals!
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3rd - 6th
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Teen Issues: Multigenre Research Project
This unit is designed to appeal to adolescents' inquiry into the social issues amongst them. Students select a relevant teen issue and create a five-piece research-based multigenre project. I include a structures unit plan with objectives; project requirements, ideas, and rubrics; handouts to guide them through the process of Internet-based research; and a post-assignment self-assessment for students to complete at the end of the unit. This was one of the most successful units at my diverse,
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8th - 12th
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Making Paper Mache Masks and Writing a Play:Arts Project with Rubrics
In this integrated arts project, students will make paper mache masks, write the script for and perform a play.
This project has three tasks.
Students first create paper mache masks. They turn these masks into the creatures of their choice - animals, monsters, aliens etc.
In groups of four, students use the characters from the masks to complete a creative writing task: Writing a play.
Students work together to write the script for a five minute play that incorporates all four of the chara
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6th - 9th
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Victorian 'Pen Licence'
Use this as an incentive for students to complete work in neat cursive. This template can be edited with students name, photo & and school. Modeled off the Australian Victorian licence. Enjoy watching your students work hard to keep their work neat!
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3rd - 6th
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Memoir: Introduction to the Memoir MINI Unit All-in-One DEAL!
Help your students understand what a memoir is and generate ideas for writing their own memoir with the Introduction to the Memoir MINI Unit All-in-One DEAL!. Offered for less than what it would cost to purchase each document separately. Includes a note to the teacher as well as the following documents: Essential Questions, What is a Memoir Guided Notes, Quick Writes Journal Prompts, Elements of a Memoir/Personal Narrative, Discussion Questions Relating to the Memoir, Events and Emotions Brain
Grades:
6th - 12th
'Coraline' Film Study Booklet
This booklet includes film techniques such as sound, colour, lighting, costume, characterisation with images from the movie. This work booklet consolidates their knowledge of film techniques in a practical way. There is also an assessment at the end of the booklet whereby students become the director and are interviewed based on the cinematic choices (why they chose to represent things in certain ways).
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7th - 10th
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Detective Fiction Complete Unit of Work and Study Guide
This 55 page study guide, is everything you need to introduce mystery and crime genres through Detective Fiction. Works well with the Detective Fiction PowerPoint. Have you students become detectives as they work through the various activities, including identify various famous detective, vocabulary quizzes. The following readings are included:Lamb to Slaugter by Roald DahlThe Perfect Muder by Renate YatesMrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat by Roald DahlThe Landland by Roald DahlThe Bus Ride by Sah
Grades:
8th - 12th
The Complete Unit on Paraphrasing, Plagiarism and Citation. No Cut and Paste! :)
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
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6th - 12th
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My Life Story: 25 Chapter Outline for Writing an Autobiography
This autobiography project includes 25 different chapter ideas that will help students write their life story so far! You can easily modify this project for different grade levels by deciding (or allowing students to decide for themselves) which chapters to write about. Even reluctant writers enjoy doing this project and parents absolutely LOVE having this for a keepsake!
Grades:
4th - 9th
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Fractured Fairy Tale (point of view), rubric, and teacher's sample
This fractured fairy tale activity includes student directions for writing their tales, a rubric for scoring purposes, and a two-page teacher written example, "Cinders Meets Her Match" to project via a document camera. It is a perfect way to introduce the point of view standard as well as writing narratives. The example includes highlighting: figurative language, transition sentences, dialogue; as well as red highlighted mistakes in conventions (spelling, capitalization, punctuation) and organ
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5th - 8th
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Suspenseful Writing Packet for Middle School Students
This easy and engaging packet moves writers from brainstorming and planning to a finished short story that they will be proud of! You can have students work individually or with a partner; my students love working with a partner! Students have really enjoyed this writing assignment and still remember it by the end of the year! Suspense, more than any other genre, reinforces the components of strong narrative writing!
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6th - 9th
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Red Dog - Film Study
Booklet for the film study 'Red Dog'. The booklet includes a range of questions, camera angles and research and assessment tasks.
Grades:
7th
Similes: A super long list
Three pages with three columns jam packed with nothing but ideas for similes. Use these lists as an introduction, study guide, or for writing ideas. Students will have to provide first part of the simile since only the second half is provided on the lists. Definition is included at the top for quick reference.
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3rd - 12th
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Samurai Kids White Crane Novel Study
Attention Australian Teachers. This is a novel study that is closely linked to the Australian curriculum with Scope and Sequence stated for each of the 14 chapters. Also for each chapter there are activity suggestions and questions for either individual answers or small group or class discussions.There are no graphics to download. There are other novel study units to be found at my store www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Pam-C
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4th - 6th
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Coloring Pages Soup / Soups / Cooking / Stew / Chowder Soup Day Foods Art
Foster creativity with this awesome soup day coloring set. This set includes 29 images. Ideas to challenge the students:-Invent a story for your image, what is happening? What happened 2 days ago? What will happen tomorrow?-Color the image in only one color (focus on light and dark).-Color half and your friend colors half.-Color half angry and color half happy.-Describe the image in writing or orally.-Add a background These are intricate illustrations intended for large 8.5” x 11” format, no w
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
Advertising Unit: Creative Writing, Propaganda, Persuasion: FUN!
This fun project can be completed almost independently by your students, after a mini lesson one day each week. After the first lesson, explaining propaganda and advertising layout and components of an ad, students will analyze ads in small groups and then launch their own advertising campaign!
Here's what they will learn:
1. How to find and use creative writing (especially figurative language and persuasion) in advertisements.
2. How to create visually and verbally appealing advertisements an
Grades:
4th - 7th
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College Recommendation Letter. (From a Math Teacher)
College Recommendation Letter. (From a Math Teacher)Writing a quality recommendation letter can be a time-consuming adventure, especially for those teaching in the Mathematics fields. Take the effort and stress out of your letter writing process with this one page template that will make any of your Math students shine.A R Mathematics
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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