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Not grade specific creative writing resources for Microsoft Word
Stop Motion Storyboard and Planning Worksheet
This worksheet is to help students create a stop motion movie. It's great for the common core standards, having the students list characters, props and background needs, plan out the story and then create a story board.
This can be used for multiple grade levels and multiple courses, such as Elementary, Middle School, Art class, English, or Social Studies.
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Writing Conference Sheet for student or class with check list of grows/ comments
This a writing conference sheet that can be used for an individual student or as a class. It has a spot for grows and glows. In the grow section I added a check list of things to work on. there is also a space to write a different comment. This can be used in conjuction with my Writing Rubric Grader in my store. Please check that out too. Hope this helps :).
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Language Arts Awards
Awards for the Language Arts Classroom
YES, these awards are editable!!!!
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★ 20 unique awards for the ELA K-12 Classroom
Award included for the following:
• English I,II, III, IV
• English
• Literature
• American Literature
• Grammar
• Reading
• Spelling
• Writing
• Creative Writing
• Language Arts
• Speech
• Journalism
• Poetry
• Vocabulary
• Handwriting
• Phonics
• Certificate of Achievement
What's editable? The students’ names, teacher’s name,dates, and
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Build Your Own Elf
Super cute Christmas Elf Template Students use the templates to create and build their own one of kind Elf. No two will be the same. Get inspiration from all different head types, eyeballs, noses etc. Includes a sample elf that can be used as a colouring page for the kids. Once the Elves have been completed the kids can get creative and name their elves and even write a little story. A fun way to get creative, and maybe little bit excited about the holidays.
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Bloom Ball Literary Analysis Activities Sheet (A Raisin in the Sun)
Using Bloom's Taxonomy higher order thinking template, give your students in depth analysis activities that address each level of learning. This listing has activities especially for the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. However, the activities and template can be personalized to fit any text or even different content areas. Test students on all levels of Bloom's original taxonomy by assigning this as an independent project. Promote collaborative learning and differentiation by pla
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Runny Babbit Shel Silverstein Poetry Spoonerisms Activity
This worksheet is a fun way to teach a mini lesson about Shel Silverstein's poetry that uses spoonerisms. Students are asked to decode messages from an image, then create their own poem using spoonerisms. Double sided worksheet. You can edit to use more or less examples from the image.
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Simile and Metaphor Worksheet
Students write on the line whether the sentence contains a simile or a metaphor. Includes idioms, quotes from authors, lyrics from songs, and simple sentences. Good exposure to this form of figurative language before requiring students to write their own.
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Composition Writing Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students are introduced to composition writing and the different modes. However, the main focus is on identifying the parts of a composition, discussing the format and using sample compositions for scaffolding.
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Melodrama script: The Cheesecake Factory
A campy melodrama script for middle or high school. Fun for class or for full production! Will the Graham sisters be able to save their cheesecake factory from the evil Riley Slapdash and his clumsy assistant?!?
The Cheesecake Factory, OR The Women of Cheesy Virtue by Tammie Pogue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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Mystery Radio Show for Drama Class
Your actors will love this assignment! First, find "Nick Danger, Third Eye," "I Love a Mystery," and any Phillip Marlowe mysteries on YouTube. Then, play them for students. Students will quickly get the idea. They can write their mystery radio drama as a dramatic piece or as a spoof. This is a fun activity that teaches kids about early radio, sound effects, parody, as well as how to work together.
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Seedfolks Creative Writing Assessment: Add-a-Chapter
This project is an engaging way to help kids apply their knowledge of Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks through a creative writing assessment. For this assignment, students must create their own character and chapter to fit into the book. Like the other characters, this new character should have a backstory with a problem, interact with other characters, and use the garden to overcome the problem. This assignment assesses all of the 6 traits of writing. This product includes all of the following: Intr
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100 Days of School Portrait and Writing
This is a cute activity for students to create a self portrait of when they are 100 years old. I have my students write a quick sentence about what they will be doing when they are 100 and I cut out both papers, and attach them to a piece of long construction paper to hang in the hallway. I usually cut the writing portion in half (you will see two parts on the writing page to make half pages for the writing).
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Writing your Autobiography
This is a ten page unit addressing autobiographies and writing. There are directions and a prompt for mentor texts. Also included are the rubrics for peer and teacher assessment of the writing. All documents are fully editable for tailoring to your own students, classrooms, and needs.Check out my other writing products:Cause and Effect PaperStory/Movie Comparison PaperHow to: Game PaperCreated by Sarah Koves, ©Kovescence of the MindFollow Kovescence of the MindFacebookPinterestTwitterInstagram
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The Distance between the Narrator and the Reader
This upload clearly outlines a description of the choices that can be made using narrative voice. There are examples from novels which use these narrative voices, and tasks which consolidate an understanding of each of these voices. There is also a connection made between Gardener's term 'psychic distance' and an understanding of how each voice creates a certain distance between the narrator and the reader.
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Checklists for Editing Stories. Possible Assessment Tools
Included in this upload are a series of checklists for planning, structuring, for characterisation, point of view, narrative voice, language, dialogue, context and world. There are also general checklists which include less specific information on each of these features. In the checklists there are activities for discussion and planned paragraph writing which should consolidate written exposition. There are also a series of questions which need written responses, underlined choices, a series
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Selfie Self Portrait Template for the First Day of School
This editable template was created to allow your kiddos to demonstrate their artistic talents on their first day back to school! For my upper elementary students, I have included a space for them to update their statuses. It's always fund to repeat this activity at the end of the year to demonstrate how much they've grown! Questions or concerns, please let me know! Thanks!
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Choosing a Narrative Voice
This upload on narrative voice requires students to edit previous work by thinking more deeply about the personality of the narrator. The upload also gives writing tasks that emphasise the importance of carefully choosing a narrator in terms of biases, and limitations of their knowledge about the event and characters. It also encourages them to think about the type of commentary the narrator would indulge in. The information is broken up so that each new point includes an activity to reinforce
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Creative Writing Workshops - Layering
This upload looks at different ways you can enrich your writing by using layering. Layering includes the choice of title, the use of character names, the setting which includes the historical time period and the place, the use of extended metaphors, allegory, epigraphs, framing devices, and intertextuality. It explains and gives exercises on how to use allusion of various sorts within your text and the impact this has for the reader. The upload includes a series of group activities, library a
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Creating a World for your Story
This upload has advice, assessments, questionnaires and journals that consolidate advice on genre and setting, on how the microcosm can reflect the macrocosm, the way our consciousness is shaped by the world around us, the use of motifs in describing setting, the embeddedness of a character in their world, the use of sensory perception and the way to categorise details.
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World Creation
The aim of these uploads is to show the importance of setting as it relates to the theme of a story. I have included group assessment sheets where students are able to use the sheets to discuss and edit their work together using a series of prompts that include, pathetic fallacy, dichotomies, the significance of particular settings such as the forest, and creating a purpose that is evident in the setting. There are a range of tasks that require the development of vocabulary and an emphasis on
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Quantitative vs. Qualitative Assessment: Murder Mystery Paragraph
This is an assessment created to assess the student's understanding of quantitative vs. qualitative observations I utilized in an instructional setting science class for diverse learners. The assessment includes a short story to build context, clues with descriptions and pictures, instructions for the assignment, and a rubric.
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Blank Writing Template
Blank writing template that can be used as single-sided (p1) or double-sided with extra lines on the back (p2 and 3), with a box for a picture. Great use for short stories, retells, small moments, and other writing activities (especially for primary).
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*FREE* Newspaper Article Template and Rubric!
*FREE* Newspaper article template and rubric! I love using this to get students to make a "Fake News" article as part of a media literacy unit.
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Dead Word Eulogy
This is a quick write activity for students to understand the ineffectiveness of dead words in their writing.
Before starting the activity, you must either assign a dead word or have the student select a dead word at random through a raffle.
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