Free Creative Writing Activities

Are you ready to dive into a world of gratitude this Thanksgiving season? By focusing on gratitude, we can improve our mood, strengthen our relationships, and even boost our creativity! These writing prompts are a great way to engage students with kindness and reflection for November.

Benefits of Thankful Writing Prompts

• Emotional Well-being: Focusing on gratitude can improve mood, reduce stress, and increase happiness.
• Improved Relationships: Expressing gratitude can strengthen bonds with loved ones and build deeper connections.
• Enhanced Self-Awareness: Reflecting on gratitude can help students identify their values and priorities.
• Increased Resilience: A grateful mindset can help students cope with challenges and setbacks.
• Boosted Creativity: Writing prompts spark imagination and encourage creative thinking.

What's Included:

1 journal prompt page

15 journal prompts (word bank included!)

6 pages of writing paper

Get Ready for Gratitude!

Students write, draw, and reflect as they explore many ways to express thankfulness. Let's make this a Thanksgiving filled with positivity and appreciation!

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Add a touch of mindful music to any season, holiday, or composer unit study. With over 150 categorized classical pieces, the Classical Journey Bundle offers an engaging printable for every occasion. Each month unlocks a curated selection of themed classical music pieces, perfectly paired with a holiday or season!

This is a fun story starter for Halloween. I hope you enjoy it! Also check out my other Halloween worksheets.

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End of Year Memory Book K-4

Pages included:

• Cover page for K - 4
• When I grow up
• 3 pages for pictures
• Things I learned
• A page for student's picture, hand print, grade, age and height
• My Favorite things
• My new friends
• My school
• Signatures
• Congratulations on completing grades k - 4

Looking to spark creativity in your classroom this Thanksgiving season? These 10 Thanksgiving-themed story starters are perfect for getting your students' imaginations flowing! Designed for grades 4 and up, these engaging and open-ended prompts let students craft their own festive, adventurous, and even magical stories.
Use these story starters as:

• Bell ringers to jumpstart creative writing sessions
• Writing centers or stations for independent work
• Extension activities when students need an extra challenge
• Fun, seasonal writing prompts for November or Thanksgiving-themed lessons

Included Story Starters:

• “While preparing the Thanksgiving feast, you discover the turkey is enchanted! It starts talking and asks you to help it break a 100-year-old curse. What will you do?”
• “A UFO lands in your backyard on Thanksgiving Day. The aliens are friendly, but they want to join your dinner. What happens next?”
• And 8 more fun and imaginative prompts!

Why You’ll Love This Resource:

• Easy to Use: Simply print and go! Perfect for quick lesson planning.
• Engaging & Fun: Each prompt is designed to capture students’ attention and foster creative thinking.
• Flexible Use: Ideal for writing centers, bell work, or independent writing projects.
• Perfect for November: Add a festive twist to your writing lessons during the Thanksgiving season.

This FREE resource will keep your students engaged and excited about writing. Download today and watch their Thanksgiving tales come to life!

**Descriptive Writing: Menu Master
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Key Features:

• Easy-to-use: Designed for seamless integration into your classroom.
• Customizable: Students create unique and personalized restaurant menus.
• Comprehensive: Includes a variety of food ideas, a helpful word mat, and editable menu templates.

What's Included:

• A diverse list of cuisines to spark creativity.
• Blank and final menu templates for students to design their own.
• A convenient word mat with descriptive adjectives and verbs.

Benefits:

• Enhances writing skills: Teaches descriptive language and sentence structure.
• Fosters creativity: Encourages students to think outside the box and develop imaginative ideas.
• Builds confidence: Helps students feel empowered as they create their own menus.
• Versatile learning: Suitable for various classroom settings and learning styles.
  Printable PDF Format: Ready-to-go!

Download Now: Get your free copy of the Descriptive Writing - Write a Menu Worksheet today and watch your students' creativity flourish!

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Make Mom a Queen for Mother's Day!

Feeling like royalty? This Mother's Day, you can make Mom feel like the queen she is with a crown you create yourself!

Here's what you'll need:

• Construction paper (shiny or glittery is extra special!)
• Scissors (adult supervision needed!)
• Markers, crayons, or colored pencils
• Stickers or decorations (optional)
• Glue

Let's get crafting!

1. Crown yourself a designer! With an adult helping, choose your favorite construction paper color.
2. Time to cut! Again, with grown-up help, cut out a large crown shape from the paper.
3. Now comes the fun part! Decorate your crown! Write messages for Mom all around the crown. What do you love about her? What makes her the best mom ever?

• "I love your hugs!"
• "You make the best pancakes!"
• "Thank you for playing with me!"

Sparkle and shine (optional)! Add stickers, glitter, or anything else that makes your crown extra special for Mom.

The grand finale!

Carefully place your crown on Mom's head and give her a big hug. This homemade crown is sure to make her feel loved and appreciated on Mother's Day!

Blush Notes 8.5 x 11 inches 200 Pages for Notebooks and journals

Make students a Writing Journal to do independent writing during a mini lesson or add to your Writing station.This is great practice for skills that are needed on standardized testing. The Writing Prompt Journal will help keep students' writing skills crisp all year long. Writing Journal Includes: 6 Writing Plans (Graphic Organizers) 6 Writing Prompts 6 Writing Draft Sheets Writing Checklist (Copy for each draft) Transition Word Bank (Graphic Organizer) Transition Word List 6 Different Writing Genres included: Informative, Creative, Personal Narrative, Persuasive, Descriptive, and Fictional Writing. Students will enjoy sharing their writing with one another and teachers have a quick daily formative writing assessment. Please comment and rate. Thank You! If you like this item please check out my Figurative Language Bundle

Engage your students with exciting 100 Days of School activities that promote both learning and fun! Our carefully crafted collection of noun-focused activities ensures that students not only celebrate reaching the milestone, but also develop a solid grasp of important language concepts. Throughout these activities, students will explore nouns in various forms, from common and proper nouns to abstract and concrete nouns, facilitating their understanding of grammar and vocabulary.

Embrace the joy of learning with our exceptional 100 Days of School activities, designed to foster a deep understanding of nouns while fostering creativity and enthusiasm within the classroom. Watch as your students master the foundations of language and build a strong educational foundation that will propel them towards future success!

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Four creative writing prompts with winter coloring pictures. Promotes writing skills, creative thinking, and on-demand prompt writing. Use with mini-lessons to teach basic skills or for assessment of writing skills. Share in small or whole group settings and display students' writings for all to read.

This is a simple template for a quick one-page creative writing activity. Includes a space for either the students creating their prompt, or one given by the teacher. It would be a great morning work activity, early finisher activity, and something to hang up around the classroom. I hope you enjoyit!

This is a free preview of the William Shakespeare play script - Macbeth. The full play script is available for just $4.75 by following the link above.

This is a free preview of a play script for William Shakespeare's Macbeth, which has been written to be suitable for ages 9 to 14. Macbeth tells the story of a fierce warrior who meets three strange witches on his way home after a battle. The witches tell him that he will be King. At first Macbeth thinks they are lying but then he starts to believe the witches' prophecies.

He sends a letter to his wife, Lady Macbeth, who persuades him to kill the King and claim the throne. He does this but the couple find the guilt too much, and then the previous King’s sons come back for revenge. The story ends in death for Macbeth, as Macduff and Malcolm come to claim back the throne!

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The play script is a mix of modern English with some of the famous lines from the real play mixed in as well. I hope you enjoy it – good luck!

There are 18 speaking roles with parts for up to 30 students; the language is a mix of Shakespearean and more modern English. Ideal for theatre performances or plays, reading activities or guided reading sessions.

Also ideal for older students who need to know the story better without getting wrapped up in the difficult language - Shakespeare is easy to understand if you understand the story!

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In our Shakespeare Play Script Collection we also have:

• Hamlet
• Richard III
• Macbeth
• A Midsummer Night's Dream

If you want a Christmas play script we also have some fun alternatives:

• Elf
• The Santa Clause
• A Christmas Carol (A School Remix)
• A Christmas Carol (A Traditional Version)
• The Grinch

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• Other William Shakespeare Resources
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This is just a fun spring writing activity. Students can color in the picture and then write about what spring means to them.

Hope you enjoy this little freebie!

These finish the story writing prompt papers will help bring writing to life during the spring season! These no-prep narrative writing prompts are perfect for easy writing activities, writing centers, writer's workshop, early finisher activities, daily journaling, morning work and more! These prompts are great for first grade, second grade, third grade and fourth grade students! Students will love using the story starter prompts to creatively write an ending to their own story.

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What's included:

• 3 spring themed finish the story writing prompts
• 2 versions per prompt (one with a space for a picture + one with lines only)

Finish the Story Example:

• I like to look at different kinds of bugs. I think of how they all have their own tiny worlds. One day I was sitting in the grass with my magnifying glass. Suddenly, I heard a tiny voice. "Hey, down here!" I looked down only to find...

More Writing Resources:

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Spring Mega Activity Bundle

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Writing journals spur a love of writing regardless of writing level. Improve fine motor skills with this NO PREP September Journal! Use for Writing Stations and Centers. Check out the BUNDLE of journals for creating a year of progress in writing and learning!

Hole punch and put it into a binder for a great assessment tool and year-end take-home treasure. Back to school just got easier!

Writing Prompts are:

• My name is:
• My teacher is: version one
• My teacher is: version two
• I will learn numbers (1-10).
• I will learn letters (uppercase).
• I will learn colors (primary).
• I will learn shapes (rectangle, square, circle, triangle).
• Draw something you like about September.
• Time to trace (vertical).
• Trace Letters and Color – I read books.
• Trace Letters and Color – I write.
• Trace Letters and Color – I learn.

Learning Objectives:

• Become familiar with the months of the Year
• Know what happens during the Month
• Grow to love reading and writing regardless
• of ability
• Social Emotional Learning
• Creativity

JOURNALS BY MONTH

September Journal

October Journal

November Journal

December Journal

January Journal

February Journal

March Journal

April Journal

May Journal

FIRST WEEK:

All About Me

My First Week Kindergarten

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This packet includes 2 essay templates that are useful for students who are just beginning to write an essay or for students who are going to write a rough draft after brainstorming.

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Get into the festive spirit with our delightful Thanksgiving Coloring Pages! This set includes 7 unique designs perfect for kids and adults alike. Each page features charming Thanksgiving-themed illustrations, ideal for creativity and relaxation.

Students use a die to decide the format, topic, and rhetorical appeal that they will use for this persuasive writing assignment. This is meant to be a fun, amusing activity for students learning about rhetorical appeals. One sheet is colored for posting online, the other is in black and white for printing.

Check out my Author's Purpose Dice Roll Writing Activity, and my Character Reading Response Dice Roll Writing Activity as well!

Enhance collaboration, writing and public speaking skills with Story Starters! This AVID resource provides engaging story starters that encourage students to finish a story and present it to their peers. This activity fosters collaboration and communication within small groups or whole class settings, while also providing a fun way to improve public speaking skills. Download the Google Slides digital resource today and see the positive impact it can have on your students' teamwork and confidence!

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Directions:

• Display the Google Slide Story Starter OR print them out so students have different stories to choose from.
• Students will complete the engaging story starter by writing for 3 minutes.
• Students can use the picture provided to help guide them in their stories, or choose to take a different route and be creative on their own.
• Students will be split into groups of 4-6.
• Each student will present their story to their small group while practicing public speaking skills.

What's Included:

• 3 Story Starter Prompts with Images
• 1 Directions Page

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Transform your classroom into a spooky wonderland with this engaging Halloween themed creative writing and craft activity. The If my Teacher Turned into a Pumpkin Bunting Template Pack offers 6 printable templates, both in black and white and vibrant orange, providing students with various avenues to express their creativity. Each template includes three designs for drawing, as well as three for guided writing exercises. Once completed, your students can proudly display their work by stringing the buntings together. These decorations can adorn the classroom, from walls and bulletin boards to doors and hallways.

This no prep activity enhances creative writing skills and fine motor development through cutting practice. It's an ideal resource for Halloween themed lessons, promoting a fun and educational atmosphere. Download now and let the Halloween spirit ignite imaginative storytelling in your classroom.

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