Less than $5 Elementary School Creative Writing Assessment

Escape the Snow Globe: A Narrative Writing Adventure!

Spark your students' imaginations with this exciting narrative writing activity!

They have been trapped in a snow globe!

Why?

• Snow Globe Escape! (Writing Prompt): A captivating prompt that transports students to use their creativity to describe their snow globe surroundings, explain how they got trapped, and devise a plan to escape!
• Paragraph Power: A guide to writing strong paragraphs, including clear transitions and a variety of sentence structures. This helps students structure their narratives effectively.
• Snow Globe Design: A fun worksheet where students can personalize their snow globe adventure! They can illustrate the scene inside the globe.
• Bonus Pages: Extra lined writing pages are included to accommodate longer narratives and encourage students to fully develop their escape plans!

How to use it?

• Independent Writing Activity.
• Partner Up! Pair students to brainstorm ideas and share their escape plans with each other.
• Whole-Class Brainstorm: Have students share their snow globe ideas and escape strategies as a class, sparking creative thinking and storytelling.

⭐Want more writing for Christmas? Here are 2 persuasive attempts:⭐
Who Will Guide the Sleigh?

Dear Santa, Villains Edition

⭐Thanksgiving narrative writing: How the Turkey Escaped Thanksgiving Dinner**⭐**

⭐Journey to the center of the Earth narrative/descriptive: Earth Layers**⭐**

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Not grade specific/Excellent for ALL grades!

One-page 4-Point Rubric for any writing response that requires students to identify the challenges character(s)/individual(s) face and how the character(s)/individual(s) overcome them. This Rubric is thorough and explicate making it feasible for teachers to accurately score and evaluate their students' writing responses or essays. Rubric criteria categories include: Introductory Paragraph, Explanation of Challenges, Explanation of Overcoming of Challenges, Details / Evidence, Conclusion, and Writing Mechanics. This rubric is suitable for one or multiple characters.

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Writing journals spur a love of writing regardless of writing level. Improve fine motor skills with this NO PREP October 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 last name is:
• I learn about:
• Blank Writing Pages
• Do you like to dress up?
• Make a pumpkin face.
• How do you feel?
• Tell a story. Mr. Corn is:
• I will learn letters (lowercase).
• I will learn numbers (1-20).
• I will learn secondary colors.
• I will learn shapes.
• Time to trace (horizontals).
• Draw a picture of something
• What do you eat in October?

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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Enhance your students' understanding of Labor Day with this engaging and age-appropriate Labor Day Reading Comprehension resource, designed specifically for 3rd to 5th graders. This activity includes a carefully crafted passage that introduces students to the history and significance of Labor Day, followed by a variety of comprehension questions. The questions range from multiple choice to short answers, ensuring a thorough assessment of your student's reading skills.

With this resource, students will practice reading comprehension, critical thinking, and writing as they explore key facts about Labor Day. The exercise also encourages students to reflect on their own understanding of the holiday, making the learning experience both meaningful and interactive.

Perfect for guided reading, independent work, or as a homework assignment, this resource includes a full answer key for easy grading. Save time on lesson planning while providing your students with a comprehensive understanding of this important holiday.

Here are the positive aspects of this exercise and why teachers will find it valuable:

• The exercise simplifies language and concepts, making it accessible and engaging for 3rd to 5th graders. This ensures that students can understand the material and stay motivated, which is crucial for effective learning.

• The combination of a passage, multiple-choice, and short-answer questions allows students to practice reading comprehension, critical thinking, and written expression. This well-rounded approach helps reinforce key skills across different areas of learning.

• Engagement and Reflection: By including a question that asks students to write about their knowledge and thoughts on Labor Day, the exercise encourages personal reflection. This can deepen their understanding of the holiday's significance and make the lesson more meaningful.

• The exercise is ready-made, saving teachers time in lesson planning. Its clear structure, complete with an answer key, allows for easy grading and ensures that teachers can quickly assess student understanding.

What's Included:

• key
• PDF
• 4 pages
• Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions I Multiple Choice & Short Answer

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• All about me Poster, Back to School Activities
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Do you need help assessing your students' narrative writing pieces? Then check out these Narrative Writing Assessment Templates! If you need to have writing conferences with just one student or you want a quick snapshot of brief notes on your entire class' progress, then these templates are just right for you! With various template designs to choose from to suit your teaching and assessing style!

FEATURES

✏️ Narrative Writing Rubric Assessment PDF (with border)

✏️ Narrative Writing Rubric Assessment PDF (without border)

✏️ Narrative Writing Conference Notes - 1 student PDF (With border)

✏️ Narrative Writing Conference Notes - 1 student PDF (Without border)

✏️ Narrative Writing Conference Notes - Group of 3 PDF (With border)
✏️ Narrative Writing Conference Notes - Group of 3 PDF (Without border)

✏️ Narrative Writing Conference Notes - Group of 6 PDF (With border)

✏️ Narrative Writing Conference Notes - Group of 6 PDF (Without border)

✏️ Narrative Writing Conference Notes - Group of 30 PDF (With border)

✏️ Narrative Writing Conference Notes - Group of 30 PDF (Without border)

✏️ Narrative Writing Observations - Group of 12 PDF (With border)

✏️ Narrative Writing Observations - Group of 12 PDF (Without border)

✏️ Narrative Writing Observations - Blue Sticky Notes (With border)

✏️ Narrative Writing Observations - Blue Sticky Notes (Without border)

✏️ Narrative Writing Observations - Colorful Sticky Notes (With border)

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This Product Includes:

• Grammar Practice Test

  • Starts out correct and slowly goes completely wrong

• Silly Spelling Test

  • Nonsense words & Sentences

• Reading Assessment

  • A ridiculous story with an assessment that doesn’t make sense

• Creative Writing

  • A writing prompt... without using letters!

My fifth graders loved it!

This product is made for:

• adapting instruction
• differentiating instruction
• on level learners
• ESL/ENL/ELL
• Deaf Education
• Homework
• Classwork
• Homeschooling
• Bell Work
• Virtual Instruction
• Remote Instruction
• Struggling Readers
• Struggling Writers

This rubric looks at 6 different areas when students are being assessed on writing step-by-step directions. The areas that are reviewed on the rubric are as follows: making sure the directions are in sequential order, including a topic, supporting sentences, exact details, and a closing sentence, staying on task, grammar/punctuation/spelling, and working with others. This rubric scores the step-by-step writing assignment out of 18 possible points. The rating scale use is a 3, 2, 1, & 0.

Writer's Workshop - First Twenty Days outline This gives you a twenty day introduction to writers' workshop in the middle grades. From going through the rules of the workshop, to editing vs. conferencing, to the different genre of writing. Everything is covered or introduced in this twenty day plan. Although this is intended for use when the school year begins, it can easily be used at any point throughout the year to teach different aspects that are covered. Updated: March 11, 2014 - Includes reasoning behind the placement of diagnostic writing during the first 20 days. Don't forget to check our my "revised" first twenty days of reading workshop for Junior and Intermediate grades: First Twenty Days of Reading Please don't forget to take a look at the other items I have available in my store!

This is a NO PREP, print and go resource that is perfect for CVC writing practice. Students use the picture to write a sentence using short a CVC words.

Differentiated to meet the needs of all learners in your class!

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High Frequency words: I, a, like, see, can, the, we, go, to, am, in, my, she, he, here, is, put, big, get, look, find, little, want, have, do, down, black, brown,

Short A CVC words:

-ab: tab, gab, dab, lab, cab

-ad: bad, dad, mad, pad, sad

-ag: bag, rag, tag, wag

-am: ham, jam, ram, yam

-an: can, fan, man, pan, ran, van

-ap: cap, map, nap, tap

-at: bat, cat, hat, mat, pat, sat

-ax: wax

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Keywords: no prep, cvc, writing, reading, differentiated, ELAR, kindergarten, first grade, consonant vowel consonant, sight words, heart words, high frequency words, kindergarten writing, sentence stems.

Use this quick & easy freebie in your classroom while teaching personal narrative writing! This checklist is for students to use in order to monitor and self-assess their writing. This product comes two to a page, so it is very convenient to print!

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Veterans Day Reading Comprehension and Writing Activities

Looking for an engaging way to teach students about Veterans Day? This resource is perfect for building knowledge and developing literacy skills!

Veterans Day Reading Comprehension and Writing Activities includes:

• Informative 7 reading passages about Veterans Day and each branch of the U.S. military (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Space Force)
• Comprehension questions to enhance understanding
• Writing prompts encouraging students to reflect on the importance of honoring veterans
• Answer key for all activities

This product is ideal for classroom discussions, independent practice, or group work. Help your students appreciate the bravery and dedication of our veterans while strengthening their reading and writing skills!

Suitable for first to third Graders, these activities are a meaningful addition to your Veterans Day lessons.

May you like to explore our VETERANS DAY resources

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Bon voyage on your narrative adventure to the Earth's core! Prepare to be amazed by the incredible experiences that await!

What's Included?
2 Writing Prompts (Choose One)
Option 1: Divided Paragraphs (Provides a more structured approach)

1. The Crust: Your adventure begins at the surface, on the Earth's crust. Describe the landscape – is it a scorching desert, a lush forest, or a mountain peak? What sights and sounds surround you?
2. The Mantle: As you burrow deeper, the heat intensifies. You've reached the mantle, the thickest layer of the Earth. Describe the strange and wondrous things you encounter here – molten rocks, exotic crystals, or perhaps even signs of ancient creatures.
3. The Outer Core: The pressure is immense as you descend further. Now you're in the outer core, a sea of liquid metal. Describe the mesmerizing flow of the molten metal and the otherworldly sights that take your breath away.
4. The Inner Core: Finally, you've reached the Earth's innermost layer, the solid inner core. Describe the unimaginable heat and pressure here. What does it feel like to be at the very center of our planet?

Option 2: Lined Paper (Open-Ended)
This version allows for more creative freedom. Imagine your journey to the Earth's core and narrate your experiences in a continuous story. Describe the challenges you face, the wonders you discover, and your thoughts and feelings throughout this extraordinary adventure.

⭐You might need this to remind your students of the Layers of the Earth | Activity and Notes**⭐**

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Kindergarten students will continue the journey of writing and reading with this APRIL Journal or Journal EIGHT. This is part of a future bundle that will include nine months. These writing journals were specifically created to spur a love of writing regardless of writing level. The complete set of journals will display a year of progress in learning!

Journal Writing Prompts Pages include:

• April Fools Day
• Spring-time
• First Month of Spring
• National Garden Month
• Earth Day
• Arbor Day
• National Poetry Month
• Easter
• April Flower Daisy
• April in School
• April Bingo

Learning Objectives:

• Become familiar with 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

More Back to School:

MATH and LITERACY MEGA BUNDLE

Math andLiteracyHugeBUNDLE

Math and Literacy Worksheets BUNDLE

Math andLiteracyMini-Books

LettersandNumbersActivitiesBUNDLE

TraceLinesandShapesLettersNumbers BUNDLE

Classroom Décor Letters Numbers Centers

MORNINGMEETINGBUNDLE

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Do your students need a self-revising checklist to help them revise their poetic texts? Then give them this Poetry Writing Revising Checklist! Students can use it to check to see if they have revised all key areas of their poetry writing piece including the structural elements of their poetry as well as if they need to remove, add, remove or substitute any details from their poem.

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This rubric looks at 5 different areas when students are being assessed on writing a story. The areas that are reviewed on the rubric are as follows: the story outline relates with the graphic organizer, all parts of the story are written in sequential order, staying on task, grammar/punctuation/spelling, and working with others. This rubric scores the story writing assignment out of 15 possible points. The rating scale use is a 3, 2, 1, & 0.

This is a NO PREP, print and go resource that is perfect for CVC writing practice. Students use the picture to write a sentence using short i CVC words, 9 pages of awesome practice for your students! Best part? Its only $1!

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Included in this product:

High Frequency Words: He, has, a, that, is, get, too, to, want, will, eat, look, at, was, like, put, see, away, she, take, out

Short i CVC words:

-ib: bib, rib

-id: lid

-ig: big, dig, wig, fig, pig

-im: him, rim

-in: bin, fin, pin, tin, win

-ip: dip, zip, lip, rip, tip

-it: sit, pit, hit, bit, kit

-ix: fix, mix, six

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Keywords: no prep, cvc, writing, reading, differentiated, ELAR, kindergarten, first grade, consonant vowel consonant, sight words, heart words, high frequency words, kindergarten writing, sentence stems.

This kindergarten writing prompt resource comes with 35 writing prompts for your littles AND it aligns with the Common Core State Standards! It keeps a consistent layout throughout so students become comfortable completing these independently. Each page comes with dotted lines for easy writing. It also comes with a large square for students to draw a picture. Lastly, the prompt is printed right onto the page. These prompts are perfect for morning work, ELA, small group centers, or even homework! With 35 prompts to choose from, you and your students will love the variety!

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Writing journals spur a love of writing regardless of writing level. Improve fine motor skills with this NO PREP November 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 full name is:
• I study these subjects:
• Write a story. Draw a picture.
• I count.
• I can make 2-letter words.
• Color the crayons.
• Make a 2D picture.
• Time to trace.
• What makes you thankful?
• World Kindness Day
• November 1 1 is Veteran’s Day.
• What would you like to do in November?

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

More Back to School:

MATH and LITERACY MEGA BUNDLE

Math andLiteracyHugeBUNDLE

Math and Literacy Worksheets BUNDLE

Math andLiteracyMini-Books

LettersandNumbersActivitiesBUNDLE

TraceLinesandShapesLettersNumbers BUNDLE

Classroom Décor Letters Numbers Centers

MORNINGMEETINGBUNDLE

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Are you tired of having to revise chunks of students' narrative texts? Then why not get them to do it themselves? With this self-revising Narrative Writing Checklist, your students can revise the main components of their own narrative texts themselves! Includes simple and clear language for student use!

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✏️ Narrative Writing Revising Checklist

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⭐ Narrative Writing Pack Bundle

⭐ Narrative Writing Activities Bundle

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This product is made for:

• adapting instruction
• differentiating instruction
• on level learners
• ESL/ENL/ELL
• Deaf Education
• Homework
• Classwork
• Homeschooling
• Bell Work
• Virtual Instruction
• Remote Instruction
• Struggling Readers
• Struggling Writers

This rubric looks at 5 different areas when students are being assessed on writing a friendly letter. The areas that are reviewed on the rubric are as follows: writing a friendly letter and including a heading, greeting, closing, and signature, staying on task, grammar/punctuation/spelling, and working with others. This rubric scores the friendly letter writing assignment out of 15 possible points. The rating scale use is a 3, 2, 1, & 0.

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Writing a Friendly Letter Example and Template:

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