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Free middle school creative writing unit plans
Common Core Summer Vacation Persuasive Writing Pack-9 Day Plans and More!
This is a fun little persuasive writing pack for your students to work with in those upcoming weeks before school lets out. A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad principal has decided to eliminate summer vacation! A highly structured graphic organizer will guide students through the planning, drafting, and publishing needed to produce a quality persuasive letter. In this set you will receive--
1. Structured Graphic Organizer-Available with both male and female principal clip art.
2. Rough Draf
Grades:
2nd - 6th
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Personal Narrative Rubric used with Lucy Caulkin's Writing Program
This simple rubric can be used to assess students' personal narratives. It is organized to assess students' ideas, content, organization, and mechanics and has plenty of space for teacher comments. This was used with the Lucy Caulkin's Writing Program.
Personal Narrative Rubric by Kate Hartley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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Fractured Fairy Tale Unit
Stories and non-fiction text are written from a particular point of view. The author positions the reader to respond to a story in a certain way through the use of language and point of view. Your assignment is to pick a familiar fairy tale and write a diary entry from the point of view of the antagonist.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Monthly Writing Prompts - Themes FREEBIE
Need writing prompts for your entire year? Use Daily 5 or Literacy Centers? Teaching students or a program that does not include holidays? Are you looking for something to diversify and correspond with themes that you already teach? Teaching the same students again and need something new?...Then this resource is perfect for you! Print and have your entire writing program ready instantly! (This only includes 1 month, as it is a freebie)What's included:*Writing Prompts for 1 month of the year (1 s
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2nd - 6th
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Learning and Understanding Poetry Unit
This Unit Plan includes individual poems, activities, guided questions, and all needed information for a two week unit on the different types of poetry. The worksheets are included and can be blown up or edited if needed.
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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A Poem A Day: National Poetry Month FREEBIE!
A Poem A Day:
This resource is an interactive, professional development resource for you and your secondary ELA colleagues. This resource will help any poetry teacher from the most experienced to the most terrified!
Your Download Includes
• An April calendar of links to great poems (21 poems, one for each weekday). Poems include: "Metaphors" by Sylvia Plath, "Awkward Scars" by Robbie Q. Telfer, "Her Kind" by Anne Sexton, "Design" by Robert Frost, "Shooter" by Lamar Jorden...and so many mor
Grades:
7th - 12th, Staff
Haunted House Real Estate Ads
A great Halloween Language Activity! It incorporates Writing, Reading, Media, and Technology all while keeping students motivated with a fun theme. Your class will look at text features and create their own real estate ad.
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5th - 6th
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Poetry PowerPoint Lesson
In this short slide show, you will see slides for sensory language, figurative language, rhyme, and repetition. A great introduction to a poetry unit. Also, slides are great to use as posters for the classroom.
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4th - 8th
Creative Writing Course: Curriculum Schedule
This five-unit creative writing course which contains the following units with handouts, PowerPoint Presentations, Instructional techniques, Peer Critique forms, Rubrics for self- and teacher evaluation, and brainstorming activities. The Schedule outlines day-by-day lesson planning for each unit. Every unit builds upon the last unit's Learning Targets, and every unit ends with a lesson plan using a film to prepare students for the next unit. This high school curriculum can be taught at the mi
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in: Creative Writing Course
FREEBIE Valentines Writing Prompts for February Narrative, How to, and More
These Valentines writing prompts are a great way to engage your students in a variety of writing centers this February!NOTE: This includes 3 Freebies! If you would like the full set, click the link below40 Valentines Writing Prompts40 Writing Prompts IncludedTypes of Text: Narrative, Opinion, Compare and Contrast, How to, FictionPoetry/Figurative Language: Haiku, Acrostic, Similes, Metaphors, Personification, Onomatopoeia, Hyperbole, Rhyming, Alliteration
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3rd - 6th
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Poetry Mini Unit
A 1 week mini unit on poetry writing, suitable for grades 4-6. Includes: - 5 styles of poems (acrostic, haiku, limerick, concrete, cinquain)- 32 slide google slides doc- Organized lessons (explanations on how to write each poem, do it as a class, timers for students to write on their own).
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4th - 6th
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Treasure Stories Drama/Creative Writing Exercise
This unit is a good introduction to Drama or to Creative Writing. Each student will bring 2 treasures from home in the "Treasure Bag" (a paper lunch bag). Without opening them, the student picks one to keep and one to put into the center of the room. The student then picks one bag out that isn't their own. They then develop convincing stories about their objects. One is true, based on their treasure. The other is fiction, based on the borrowed treasure. Both stories need to have a beginni
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6th - 12th
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Narrative Memoir Writing for Middle School Students
Perfect week-long lesson to use for memoir writing and as an introduction to more in-depth narrative writing in the upper-elementary and middle school levels. This is a perfect lesson to use in late September and early October when your writing curriculum is being developed and students are becoming more comfortable with each other and the classroom. This lesson also utilizes writer's workshop in a way that gets students and the teacher familiar with the process if it has not been used before. T
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5th - 8th
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Acrostic Story Poem Unit
Every name has a story, and what more fun than to get your students engaged in creating poetry than by creating a poem from their own name! While the main poem is formed around their name where they can share about themselves, they will have great practice working in pairs or groups to strengthen their understanding, application skills, communication, teamwork, and storytelling as they can have fun giving a name to a picture, piece of art, or drawing of choice! I have included a fun one, but it
Grades:
5th - 10th
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Poetry Mini-Lessons: Exercises to inspire creative writing
These are some quick, easy-to-use mini-lessons meant to introduce the concept of spoken word/free verse to students!There are 8 lessons (with 1 bonus lesson). Some lessons involve reading and analyzing writing, while others include a writing portion. This unit comes with activities, videos, text questions, and open-ended questions.NOTE - these are NOT exactly standard aligned, but can fall under standards regarding figurative language and literature analysis. NOTE - these lessons are merely mean
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6th - 9th
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Adelaida: A Cuban Cinderella
On the island of Cuba lived two sisters named Adelaida and Marisol. Although identical twins in appearance, their personalities were as different as night and day. Adelaida was noble and loved to help others. She understood that the situation at home was not easy. On the other hand, Marisol believed that the world revolved around her. Will the sisters' actions affect their fate?Also available in paperback at amazon, bn, and booksellers worldwide for those teachers that teach a unit on Cinderella
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Creative Writing: Poetry Quarter
This is a full-quarter plan with all materials for teaching poetry as creative writing. This unit includes a selection of poems, space for notes, and a variety of exercises. All materials are included in this unit.
Creative Writing: Poetry by Shawn McKenna is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Monologue and Characterization Unit
This is a full turn key unit on what monologues are, how to write your own, how to work on characterization with your monologues, how best to perform them. It comes with interactive materials, a rubric, and peer critiquing document.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Poetry Unit
This package includes intro lessons on Ballads, Odes, Sonnets, and Free Verse. Also included is a quick lesson covering soliloquy and monologue. There are practice problems added on at the end of each lesson that allow students to test their knowledge on poetry. There are four Google Slide lessons that pair with a handout that is given to students at the beginning of the unit. Poems needed to teach the unit are included too. This is a low prep easy to follow unit on identifying and applying ty
Grades:
6th - 9th
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FREE Journalism UNIT PLAN: Written Journalism
Ready to dive into an ELA unit? Choose this Journalism Unit Plan! This unit plan teaches real-life skills to students through the field of a journalism. Let students dive into a career they might pursue in the future while growing their writing skills!Lessons:1. The Inverted Pyramid2. Interviewing3. Profiles4. & many more!Completion of this project will result in all students producing their very own newspaper! Your students will love this unit plan!
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Personal Narrative Writing Unit - Student Template Included
Guide your students through the process of writing a personal narrative. The link to the student packet can be found on the title page of the presentation. Enjoy!
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
Four Hero-Themed Essay Prompts & Exemplars | Great for Struggling Students
This resource contains four prompts which come with example essays. This resource is editable, so you can use it however you wish. Prompt #1: What Makes Someone A HeroWrite an essay about what makes somebody a hero.Be sure to use two examples of true heroes, and give specific examples of what how each hero demonstrated this.At least one of your examples needs to come from a text we have read in class this year.Prompt #2: My Two HeroesWrite an essay about two prominent people in real life who are
Grades:
7th - 11th
Creative Writing Unit Plan
Creative Writing and Short Stories - incredibly detailed scheme of work on writing skills that includes activities and resources for over 17 lessons! Includes differentiated activities to three levels (core, support and more able), homework activities and more. What’s more, it’s completely FREE to download! Topics covered include language, structure, vocabulary, genre, organization, cohesion, settings, characters, themes and more!
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: Creative Writing Complete Unit
Drama Game - Grumpy Granny
Grumpy Granny has escaped, and it is up to the village to coax her back to her house. Use your improvisation skills to get Granny to come home!This game has been designed as an aid that assists students to practise character development and improvisation skills. They must think critically about the character they are depicting throughout the game and duse it to ultimately bring Granny home.Initially created as a warm-up for the drama classroom, this game would also suit an oral warm-up before a
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3rd - 8th
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