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Free creative writing lessons
Me on the Map mini book
This book will help students understand the importance of map skills and give them a basic understanding of where they're located in relation to the world. Students will be introduced to the following words:
Country
State
Town/City
Street
House/Address
It's very simple and fun to do with students and is a great accompaniment for the Me on the Map book by Joan Sweeny.
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PreK - 2nd
Spooky Story Writing - Halloween Writing Activity - Free Halloween Lesson
Your students will love this fun and engaging Halloween writing activity that will have them rolling story element dice (setting, character, obstacle, and a story starter) to create a random set of story components. Once students have their story components, they’ll plan and write a spooky story as they combine each element into an entertaining writing piece. Perfect for a Halloween lesson, Halloween activity or any time of the year!This activity taps into students’ natural love of scary stori
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4th - 7th
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Wacky Old Photo Picture Prompts for Creative Writing FREEBIE
Picture prompts of wonderfully wacky and weird old photographs from the late 19th and early 20th century encourage creative writing in even the most reluctant 4th-6th grade writer. These writing picture prompts are perfect to use in a targeted writing mini-lesson, as independent writing enrichment, or as a NO PREP substitute activity. Your students will really get their creative juices flowing with these three free quirky writing picture prompts!If you like these free writing picture prompts,
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4th - 6th
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Free Halloween Activity - Figurative Language & Reading Comprehension
Looking for a fun and educational way to celebrate Halloween in your classroom? Then, you’ll love the activities in this resource that give your students a trick AND treat.In this resource you’ll find a “Halloween Fun” activity. This one is the ‘TRICK’. In this activity students need to read the instructions very carefully. However, most students do not read the entire set of directions before beginning (that’s the trick). That means that students will follow the directions to create a Hal
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5th - 8th
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Stretch The Sentence Writing Activities - Free Sample!
Students can practice stretching out sentences with these fun writing activities! The focus is to add more details to sentences by answering the questions who, what, when, where, why, and how? These will get students thinking about what details to add to make their sentences more interesting. This free sample includes two different practice pages!
Included:
• How to stretch the sentence page with example
• 2 practice pages
*For more activities, please see the full resource:
Stretch The Sentenc
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1st - 3rd
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Teaching Dialogue in Writing {Freebie!}
This free pack is sure to help you through your writing dialogue unit! In this pack you will receive:-Posters outlining the rules to edit and punctuate dialogue correctly -A passage for students to correctly edit and punctuate dialogue, with answer keys-Links to my blog posts on teaching dialogue with additional ideas, lessons, and mentor texts-Student center/group activity and recording sheet to practice putting together a quote with the correct punctuationSee my 2 blog posts at: YoungTeacherLo
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3rd - 6th
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Polar Express Freebie
This product includes activities to enhance your study of the book "The Polar Express".
Included are:
Retelling (beginning, middle, and end)
Story Elements (character, setting, problem, solution)
Movie vs. Book box and t chart
The First Gift of Christmas writing
How to Make Hot Chocolate writing
Polar Express ABC Order
Tickets for a Polar Express celebration (color and black and white)
A letter from Santa (color and black and white)
This freebie is offered under Scrappin Doodles Freebie Lice
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Short Story Planning Sheets - Graphic Organizers for Narrative Writing
Are your students getting ready to write creative short stories, but need structure and guidance? This activity is a great way to get them thinking about and planning their short story. Two versions are included - one that allows for brainstorming 3 possible stories (complete with character, settings, problem, events, and solution), and the other that allows an in-depth outline for one short story.
These are great because they make sure your student has a plan before creating a rough draft. It
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4th - 7th
Spring Acrostic Poem Template {FREE!}
April is National Poetry Month! Celebrate Spring and National Poetry Month with this freebie! Acrostic poems are an easy and fun way to introduce poetry to your students. This products includes two templates and two classroom examples. If you like this FREEBIE, please leave some positive feedback! =)Please e-mail me at TheHappyTeacherTPT@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns.You may also like:Sweet Sentences Mega PackABC Order Mega PackSpelling Task Cards
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Not Grade Specific
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How to Write A Paragraph
Provided in this FREE download, you will get1. PowerPoint presentation that will introduce your students to the parts of a paragraph, how it is structured, and why it is important. 2. Sample lesson plans- It is intended to be taught over several days- about five 30 minute blocks over 1 week.3. Basic paragraph rubric4. Sample paragraphs 5. A list of 5 topics for practicing how to write their own paragraphsStudents learn- 1. The parts of a paragraph (topic sentence, details, and closing sentence
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2nd - 5th
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Mini Unit
This **UPDATED** 13 pg. mini unit includes fun activities to engage your students in history. Paired up with non fiction readers on Dr. King, you're sure to have your students thinking! Included are:
anchor chart headers
I have a dream writing page
I can make the world peaceful writing page
Poem
January calendar
was/had/wanted writing page
MLK, Jr. fact fill in
Art ideas
and more!
If you download this unit, please consider becoming a follower of my TpT store AND my kindergarten blog. You can fin
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PreK - 1st
Informative and Explanatory Paragraph Writing Unit Freebie/Sample
This Informative and Explanatory Paragraph Writing freebie is a sample of my 300+ paged Informative and Explanatory Paragraph Writing unit. It is a great way to introduce and give your students practice writing informative and explanatory paragraphs. The unit is aligned with the Common Core Standards grades K-3. Please, visit my store to get the full version of this sample at:
Informative and Explanatory Paragraph Writing Unit All Year Long K-3 300+ pages
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K - 3rd
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Procedural Writing Template First Grade | How To Make Pancakes FREEBIE
Looking for a way to get students excited about writing? How To Make Pancakes is the perfect no-prep procedural writing template for kindergarten and first grade. Students will love making pancakes and writing the steps with this free how-to writing activity! Included in this resource: Lesson PlansAnchor Chart - How To Make PancakesHow To Make Pancakes - writing prompts (4 differentiated versions)How To Make Pancakes - sequence the picturesPancakes Word BankPancake coloring page*****************
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K - 2nd
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Vivid Verbs ~ FREE Interactive Notebook Activity & Practice
Free Interactive Notebook Activity for Vivid VerbsI created these additional activities when my students needed further practice with writing and choosing strong, vivid verbs.Read my blog post about these activities here: http://imlovinlit.blogspot.com/2014/10/viva-la-vivid-verbs.htmlAnd get the rest of my interactive notebook writing lessons here:Interactive Writing Notebooks
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2nd - 6th
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Descriptive Writing Picture Prompts
Descriptive Writing Picture Prompts. Using writing prompts with photos to teach descriptive writing is an effective exercise. Teach your students to use concrete, or sensory, detail with three thought-provoking photos with writing prompts and notes on using sensory detail. This is part of my complete unit on Writing a Narrative Essay.Writing a Narrative Essay - Complete UnitYou might also likeWriting Prompts for Research and Response PapersWriting a Persuasive Essay - Complete UnitWriting a Rese
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7th - 10th
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Let's Start Writing! An Introductory Writing Lesson for Primary Grades
This is a great lesson to kick off writer's workshop in your primary classroom!I designed this lesson to specifically go with the book, Rocket Writes a Story by Tad Hills. However, you could easily complete this lesson without it!Included in this freebie:-Lesson Plan including an example story to model with class-Student writing cards to help "inspire" a story-Word collecting sheet-Writing paper for primary studentsTo see the lesson in action, visit my blog TGIF!Enjoy!
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K - 2nd
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Heart Maps Writing and Journal Activity
The heart map writing and journal lesson is a great community building and writing activity. Students brainstorm special memories, people, events, places and things in their lives and place them on a heart-shaped template. They can add pictures and color to make the maps more exciting. These maps can be displayed in the classroom or placed in student journals to help them generate ideas for writing as the year continues. Having students share their individual heart maps is a great way for classm
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1st - 5th
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How to Catch a Leprechaun Writing Unit for St. Patrick's Day
This is a writing freebie for how to writing! This works with any leprechaun book but I use it specifically with How to Catch a Leprechaun by Adam Wallace!In this unit you will find:1. How to Anchor Chart2. Teacher Guide3. The full writing process4. RubricWhat are others saying?! Vanessa- Thank you so much for sharing. I love how you provided for all the different writing steps!Rachel- I love this product! Everything is organized and self explanatory. I cannot wait to use it!If you want all type
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1st - 4th
FREE Alphabet Book Template
Alphabet books are a staple in most elementary classroom libraries. Creating ABC books is a familiar writing activity for the primary grades, but there are many ways to use these great resources with intermediate students as well. Use this template and included lesson activity ideas to get your students writing across the curriculum.
File includes lesson ideas, book recommendations, a great link to more free resources, three different covers and one page for each letter of the alphabet book.
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PreK - 8th
Ancient Greece Lesson: Athens vs. Sparta (Brains vs. Brawn)
The slight differences between classical Athens and Sparta are magnified in this lesson because it provides for good issue-based discussion. In reality Athens and Sparta were both fairly militaristic, and at other times both were fairly democratic. Contrary to the way they are commonly portrayed, Athens had a powerful army and navy, and Sparta had an Assembly of elected members. But as we deal with discussing the early development of civilizations, it is useful to portray Sparta as simplistic
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6th - 12th
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I Am Poem for High School Creative Writing FREEBIE
Looking for an easy back-to-school or getting-to-know-your activity? Hoping to engage your students in some introductory creative writing? Even if you're just looking for a way to break up your regular routine without sacrificing rigor and teaching time, this FREE "I Am" Poem Activity will be a great addition to your teaching calendar!This is a complete lesson--lesson plan, handout, and Google Slides presentation--for teaching and guiding high school or creative writing students through an "I Am
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Poetry Writing Activities for High School Bundle | Printable & Digital
Opinion Paragraph Writing Unit Freebie/Sample
This Opinion Paragraph Writing freebie is a sample of my 230+ paged Opinion Paragraph Writing unit. It is a great way to introduce and give your students practice writing opinion paragraphs. The unit is aligned with the Common Core Standards grades K-3. Please, visit my store to get the full version of this sample at:
Opinion Paragraph Writing Unit All Year K-3 230+ pages
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K - 3rd
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"Weekend News" Writing Template
Every Monday morning, my students write "weekend news" to document and share what they did over the weekend.
This is a template for "weekend news" with primary writing lines and a place for an illustration.
There is also a cover included if you want to save them throughout the year in a binder or folder of some kind.
It is a great way to document growth in their writing throughout the year and get to know them better as well!
I hope you can use this in your classroom. Happy teaching t
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K - 2nd
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FREE Figurative Language Practice Activity
Engage students in figurative language practice with this FREE Figurative Language Tasting Activity! This fun, tasting activity will have even the most disengaged students writing similes, metaphors, and hyperbole as they practice using figurative language in descriptive writing.Stop dragging students through figurative language practice! Replace boring exercises with this hands-on activity.In this FREE Figurative Language Tasting Activity, you will provide students with small treats (think a mi
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Figurative Language Mini-unit Bundle: Creative Writing
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