4th Grade Creative Writing Activities (by rating)

No prep! Writing prompts are an excellent way to provide students with fun and engaging writing activities! There are 600 writing prompts ranging from 40 everyday, seasonal, and holiday topics. Students can use the word banks included at the bottom of each choice board!

You will always have engaging grab-and-go writing activities for lessons and sub plans with this packet of prompts! Here are just a few benefits:

Benefits of Writing Prompts

• Helps improve writing skills - By regularly practicing with writing prompts, students can gradually improve their writing skills and become more confident writers.
• Encourages creativity - Writing prompts provide a structure for creative expression, often sparking new ideas and fresh perspectives.
• Develops critical thinking skills - Responding effectively to a prompt requires students to think critically and analyze the prompt itself. 
• Helps to overcome writer's block - A prompt gives students the structure and focus needed to write their best work! Writing prompts guide students who may struggle to structure their ideas or who tend to freeze up when faced with a blank page.
• Fun and easy assessments - Use writing prompts to identify areas where students need further support or guidance.

Everyday

Birthday • Beach Day • Food • Rainy Day • Picnic • Weather • Garden • Library • Superhero • Carnival • Space Life • Animals • Ocean Animals • Playground • Vacation • Pirate Life • Fairy Tale • Teachers

Transportation

Airplanes • Trains • Cars • Boats

Seasonal

Spring • Summer • Autumn • Winter • Back to School • Easter Bunny • Pumpkin Patch • Apple Orchard • North Pole

Holidays

July 4th • Halloween • Thanksgiving • Happy New Year! • Christmas • St. Patrick's Day • Valentine's Day • Mother's Day • Father's Day

Not only will using writing prompts help get your students excited about writing, but it will also help them practice and improve their skills. By focusing on specific areas such as grammar, punctuation, and spelling, your students will hone their technique and produce well-written pieces of work. They will also be able to develop their unique voice and style – something essential for any writer!

Check out our blog post Writing Prompts Your Students Will Love for more tips and inspiration!

Embark on a 12-month musical journey through time with the Classical Journey Bundle! ♬

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 resource includes an English and Spanish version of the Chinese New Year Mini-Book and Craft. These are perfect for your bilingual or dual-language classrooms and schools. Celebrate diversity in your classroom with this engaging Chinese New Year Mini Book and Dragon Craft! This resource is perfect for teaching students about when, who, and how the Chinese New Year is celebrated while promoting cultural understanding and respect. Filled with facts, creativity, and magic, the mini book captivates students as they learn about this important celebration's vibrant traditions and customs.

The Chinese Dragon Craft adds a festive touch to your classroom, bringing wishes of good fortune for the new year, and it will earn you plenty of compliments!

Kick off the Chinese New Year with magic, cultural exploration, and excitement!

The two resources I am including in this bundle are sold separately. Below is the list of what you will receive. You can click on each link to read a detailed description of each product.

This resource includes:

Chinese New Year Mini-Book (16 half pages) and Craft (2 pages):

• Page 1: Chinese New Year - Cover (English and Spanish Version)
• Page 2: What is the Chinese New Year? (English and Spanish Version)
• Page 3: When is the Chinese New Year Celebration? (English and Spanish Version)
• Page 4: Who Celebrates Chinese New Year? (English and Spanish Version)
• Page 5: What Are Some Traditions of Chinese New Year? (English and Spanish Version)
• Page 6: More Chinese New Year Traditions (English and Spanish Version)
• Page 7: Chinese New Year Celebration and My Celebration Venn Diagram (English and Spanish Version)
• Page 8: Chinese New Year 20 __ __ (English and Spanish Version)
• Page 9: Chinese New Year Craft - Dragon (English and Spanish Version)

Happy Chinese New Year!

This is a fun activity to warm up those writing skills. Each student can use it as a writing center or independent work. You only need some dice and a pencil!

This product includes:

• 1 Color template
• 1 BW template
• 1 writing template

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Have your students practice writing Haikus about some of their favorite jobs. They can choose a job or pick from a list of jobs. They then get to brainstorm and create their own Haikus about the job. A fun way to incorporate poetry and Haikus.

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This comprehensive bundle of resources is a perfect blend of learning and fun, designed to engage and educate during the Thanksgiving season.

It consists of two enriching products:

• Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension Passages: This set includes 4 unique nonfiction passages related to Thanksgiving. Each passage is followed by multiple-choice questions that will test the students' comprehension and enhance their understanding of the text.

• Thanksgiving Around the World Reading Comprehension Passages: Five passages that focus on how Thanksgiving is celebrated in different countries—Canada, Germany, Mexico, Grenada, and Ghana - offering the students a unique global perspective on this holiday.

• Pilgrims and Native Americans and The First Thanksgiving: Students will read about the Pilgrims’ journey, their interactions with Native Americans, and how The First Thanksgiving came to be—History of the First Thanksgiving.

• How to Cook a Turkey Recipe Book: Make Thanksgiving learning extra engaging and memorable with this recipe book.

• Thanksgiving Activities Set: This set comprises 3 exciting activities

- A word search puzzle

- A crossword puzzle

- A word scramble

- Word Sudoku

These activities are not only entertaining but also help improve vocabulary and cognitive skills.

All activities come with answer keys, allowing you to check the students' answers and gauge their progress. This bundle is a great way to celebrate Thanksgiving while also promoting learning and development.

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• Turkey Informative Writing
• Turkey Reading Comprehension Passages
• Canadian Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension Passages

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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

• Thanksgiving Gratitude Toast Writing Unit with Slides and Awards
• Looking for a meaningful and engaging way to bring gratitude into your classroom this Thanksgiving season? This 4-Day Thanksgiving Toast Writing Unit has everything you need to help your students craft heartfelt toasts while building their public speaking and writing skills.
• Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Informational Texts: Central Idea & Author’s Purpose
• This resource features informational texts centered around the iconic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Students will practice identifying the central idea and author’s purpose using guided activities, perfect for grades 4-6. Includes quizzes and engaging slides to bring the festive event into your classroom!
• Multiple Genre Thanksgiving Writing Fun: Story Starters, Centers, and Activities
  Spark creativity with these 10 engaging Thanksgiving-themed story starters! This freebie offers writing prompts perfect for centers or bell-ringers, allowing students to explore genres while creating their own holiday-inspired tales. Ideal for grades 4 and up!
• Text Features with Thanksgiving Football Text Set, Quizzes, and Slides
  Bring excitement to your lessons with this text feature set using Thanksgiving football articles. Students will analyze and identify different text features while engaging with a fun, seasonal topic. Quizzes and slide presentations are included for easy, interactive learning.
• Thanksgiving Argument Writing Unit: Debate Topics & Lesson Plans for STAAR ECRs
  Help your students master argumentative writing with this resource, complete with four Thanksgiving-themed debate prompts. Perfect for middle school, the unit includes a 75-minute lesson plan, guided notes, and templates for teaching claims, evidence, and rebuttals.
• Thanksgiving Author’s Purpose Reading Unit: Passages, Slides, Guided Notes (Grades 5-7)
  This reading unit features five double-sided Thanksgiving-themed passages that explore different author’s purposes. With interactive slides and guided notes, this resource is great for whole-group instruction, centers, or intervention activities in grades 5-7.
• Thanksgiving Digital Resource: Interactive Slides for Middle School Fall Break Vibes
  This non-academic, interactive slide deck is perfect for building community and having fun the day before Fall Break. Featuring 22 slides with thought-provoking and engaging Thanksgiving prompts, it's a fun, low-prep activity to wrap up the season.
• Thanksgiving Persuasive Writing Activity: Rhetoric for Grades 5-7 (Ethos, Pathos, Logos)
  This resource guides students through persuasive writing with a focus on rhetoric. Using Thanksgiving-themed prompts, students will practice developing strong arguments using ethos, pathos, and logos. Perfect for building writing and critical thinking skills in grades 5-7.
• Thanksgiving Text Structure Coloring Sort & Lesson
  Teach text structures in a creative and interactive way with this Thanksgiving coloring activity. Students will learn about different text structures and apply them through sorting and coloring activities, making the lesson both educational and fun.
• 10 Fall Narrative Essay Picture Prompts and Planner: Print and Go & Slides
  This resource includes 10 narrative essay prompts, each with a fall theme, designed to help students craft compelling stories. Perfect for middle school students, the resource includes both print-and-go materials and a slide deck for easy classroom use.

This bundle could cover 20-25 days of classroom instruction, depending on how the resources are paced and implemented. It offers a great variety of activities for both Thanksgiving season and beyond.

Spark Your Students' Creativity with These Engaging Templates!

This resource offers 7 fun and engaging narrative writing templates to inspire your students' imaginations.

What's Included:

• 7 Narrative Writing Templates: A variety of templates to spark different writing styles and genres.

Benefits:

• Engaging and Fun: The templates provide a structured framework for writing while allowing for creativity.
• Improves Writing Skills: Helps students develop their storytelling abilities, vocabulary, and grammar.
• Sparks Imagination: Encourages students to think outside the box and explore different genres.
• Promotes Critical Thinking: Challenges students to analyze characters, plot, and setting.

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Unlock the creativity of young writers with these Third Grade Descriptive Writing Prompts. Thoughtfully designed to inspire vivid and engaging storytelling through the lens of the changing seasons. This collection includes 24 unique prompts, with six captivating themes for each season—spring, summer, fall, and winter.

What’s Included:

▪︎ 6 Spring Writing Prompts

▪︎ 6 Summer Writing Prompts

▪︎ 6 Autumn Writing Prompts

▪︎ 6 Winter Writing Prompts

Perfect for classroom use or at-home practice, this pack of Third Grade Descriptive Writing Prompts based on seasons is a fantastic resource to inspire young writers throughout the year. Whether you’re looking to enhance your lesson plans or provide additional writing practice, these prompts are sure to spark imagination and creativity in every student.

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Quick and easy end of the year activity! Students write questions that are specific to their class and you use those to build a trivia game or a kahoot! Great way to remember fun events and adds a nice game element to the end of the year!

Includes a pdf with 2 options - Class Kahoot or Class Trivia. Either one can be used depending if you have technology or not.

Print and Go.

Core Benefits

• Fun and Engaging: Designed to make learning enjoyable
• Structured Approach: Provides step-by-step guidance
• Improves Writing Skills: Helps students develop descriptive language
• Boosts Confidence: Encourages creative expression

Target Audience

• Grades 2-6: Specifically designed for this age group

Key Features

• Creative Brainstorming: Encourages imaginative thinking

• Descriptive Language: Teaches the use of powerful adjectives and verbs

• Step-by-Step Prompts: Easy to follow for students and teachers

• Free Download: PDF Format ready-to-go!

• Sparks Imagination: Inspires students to visualize and create vivid scenes

• Builds Self-Esteem: Encourages students to express themselves confidently

  Download Now: Get your free copy of the Descriptive Writing resource today and watch your students' creativity flourish!

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Thanksgiving Narrative Writing Prompts for Creative Storytelling – 2nd-4th Grade

Enhance your students' creativity and reflection this Thanksgiving with 40 engaging writing prompts! This worksheet is designed to inspire 2nd-4th graders to explore themes of gratitude, imagination, and storytelling. Each prompt encourages young writers to think about Thanksgiving in new and exciting ways, from creating their own Thanksgiving superhero to imagining a talking feast. This resource is perfect for building narrative writing skills while celebrating the Thanksgiving season.

Ideal for classroom or at-home activities, it provides an enjoyable way to develop language arts skills. Great for journals, writing centers, or morning work!

A terrific, no prep activity for your blossoming K-4 French writers who may be struggling to take risks with their writing skills. The students absolutely LOVE this activity and have been asking me for days when we get to do ‘le gateau et la crème glacée’. I gradually give students autonomy by giving them the freedom to talk about what they think the Food Pairs have in common.

What to do:

Make a class set of copies of one of the cutie pairs.

Students colour, write, and cut out the writing strip.

Finally, students cut and paste the ends of the writing strip to the back of each item in the pair (ie. One on toast and the other end on butter. Fold in the middle and students can show the big reveal!

Pairs included:

Each set is available in Colour format followed by Black and White

-le pain et le beurre

-les hamburgers et les frites

-le gateau et la crème glacée

-les croustilles et la guacamole

-le chocolat chaud et les guimauve

-les macaronis et le fromage

-1 exemplar version at the end to demonstrate how students may choose to describe their pair

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What grade level:

I personally use these texts with Grade 1 and Grade 2 students in French Immersion. I feel confident that students from K-3 will find these most useful and teachers can come back to the texts with any students who may be experiencing challenges in their French reading skills. Core French teachers will be sure to add the resource to their repertoire for Grades 4 to 6 as they learn to read and write at the Junior level.

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Some of the Benefits of this resource:

1. Students use hands on materials
2. Boost confidence in French language acquisition with whole group, small group, independent work, and one-to-one instruction using the same resource
3. Easy common food theme that students love
4. Students grow in independence at their own pace
5. Reinforce encoding and writing skills
6. Social wellness and personal autonomy in using French in the classroom
7. Scaffold and support language acquisition, oral communication, and writing skills
8. Pair sets are ideal for putting up on a sweet bulletin board display

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This back to school resource is a great way to introduce inventions and inventors to students. A link to an engaging Youtube video is featured. Included is a thoughts and suggestions sheet which highlights portions of the video and offers tips for discussion and video follow-up. There are three colorful posters with quotes from the video that should serve to inspire your class (two are similar - choose the one that suits your needs the best). There are worksheets for students to draw, label, and write about their idea for inventions that they may have!

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Title: A Rainbow of Words

Topic: Describe yourself using Adjectives

Grade: Grades 3-4

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

Make your own Potato Crafts fun with this engaging, hands-on Build a Mr. or Mrs. Potato Person Kids craft making activity! This includes 2 low-prep Build a Mr. or Mrs. Potato Person kids crafts templates perfect for having fun with potatoes or cooking. Quick and easy setup plus clear student directions make this activity perfect for centers or substitute days, too!

Lead your students in fun craft making with 2 Build a Mr. or Mrs. Potato Person by cutting out the pieces, coloring, gluing the parts together and decorating. Students will love putting together their Build a Mr. or Mrs. Potato Person activities together by using their problem solving skills through these fun activities, and won't even realize how much they're having fun! Use it after reading a story about potatoes or sing a song about potatoes. Print in black and white to color or in color for assembly.

Here's what you'll get:

• Mr. Potato person printable

• Mrs. Potato person printable

• easy to follow directions

Your students will be crafting Build a Mr. or Mrs. Potato Person crafts with a variety of common classroom materials. They'll be engaged and having a great time together!

These activities use materials readily available in most classrooms and homes and includes printable templates to create each activity.

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the Build a Mr. or Mrs. Potato Person pages, cut everything out, color, decorate, gather the materials listed, and you're ready for a fun and engaging class! Print in black and white for coloring/painting and in color for easy assembly. You can make these into puppets, dance around the room with them while listening to winter music, or use to decorate your room with. You can even create a story about your potato person.

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Are you looking for engaging Solar Eclipse 2024 Craft Activities Writing for your students? These thought-provoking prompts provide students with the opportunity to express their thoughts and emotions about witnessing an eclipse, the excitement they felt during the eclipse, and identify the most memorable moment of their. Students can articulate their feelings, whether it was awe, wonder, or curiosity, and reflect on how the eclipse affected them on a deeper level. Also, Students will write about their experience of a solar eclipse in 2024 They will mention their name, age, the weather during the solar eclipse, when and where they observed it, and with whom. They will describe all the experiences they witnessed through writing. Then, they can color the pages, share facts about the sun, and list safety steps to take during a solar eclipse.

Display the completed crafts proudly on bulletin boards, hallways, or doors—a showcase for the entire school community.
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• 5 Pages writing Worksheets

• 5 writing prompts

• 1 Partial Solar Eclipse Template (Color Version)

• 1 Annular Solar Eclipse Template (Color Version)

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• 1 Annular Solar Eclipse Template (BW Version)

• 1 Total Solar Eclipse Template (BW Version)

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create a vibrant and engaging classroom display with this Thanksgiving Bulletin Board set, featuring adorable turkey designs perfect for the holiday season. This set includes B&W and customizable turkey templates that encourage students to express their gratitude creatively. Each turkey comes with a space for students to write what they are thankful for, making it a personal and meaningful activity.

Features:

• 6Customizable Templates: Blank spaces on each turkey for students to write what they are thankful for, fostering a sense of gratitude and reflection.
• Easy to Use: Simply print, cut, and color for a quick and easy classroom decoration.

What's Included:

• Multiple turkey templates
• Blank writing spaces on each turkey for students to fill in their thankful thoughts
• High-resolution PDF file for easy printing

Usage Ideas:

-Classroom Activity: Engage students in a fun and reflective activity by having them write what they are thankful for on their own turkey.

-Bulletin Board Display: Create a vibrant and cohesive display that showcases the students' gratitude and creativity.

-Holiday Decor: Perfect for adding a festive touch to your classroom or home during the Thanksgiving season.

Bring the spirit of Thanksgiving into your classroom with this delightful and interactive bulletin board set!

Transform your classroom's writing sessions with our Daily Writing Prompts for Year 3-6 students, specially designed for the month of September. This writing resource is meticulously crafted to engage students' creativity and enhance their writing skills through a variety of fun and thought-provoking prompts. Ideal for the Daily 5 writing block, this collection offers a seamless integration into your daily routine, ensuring your students have a structured and stimulating writing experience every day.

Key Features:

• Engaging Writing Prompts: Includes exciting prompts such as "Describe your ideal summer vacation" and "If you could have any animal, what would it be and why?" These prompts are designed to spark imagination and encourage detailed, creative responses from students.
• Versatile Formats: Available in both PowerPoint and PDF formats, making it easy to use with different teaching tools and preferences. Whether you're projecting the prompts on a screen or distributing printed copies, we've got you covered.
• Daily 5 Writing Integration: Perfectly aligns with the Daily 5 writing framework, helping students develop their writing skills through consistent practice and varied prompts. Each day's prompt is designed to fit seamlessly into your Daily 5 routine.
• Month Long Coverage: With 31 unique writing prompts, you'll have a fresh and engaging writing activity for every school day in September. This ensures your students remain motivated and excited about writing throughout the month.

Benefits:

• Enhances Writing Skills: Regular practice with diverse prompts helps students improve their writing abilities, expand their vocabulary, and develop their storytelling techniques.
• Promotes Creativity: Each prompt is crafted to inspire creativity and critical thinking, allowing students to express themselves freely and imaginatively.
• Easy to Implement: The ready to use PowerPoint and PDF formats make it simple to incorporate into your lesson plans, saving you valuable preparation time.

Perfect for Year 3-6 Students:

These Daily Writing Prompts are tailored specifically for students in years 3-6, ensuring that the content is age-appropriate and engaging for this developmental stage. Whether used as a morning warm up, part of your writing centre, or an end of day activity, these prompts are designed to make writing fun and accessible for all students.

Upgrade your classroom writing sessions with our September Daily Writing Prompts and watch your students' writing skills flourish!

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Daily Writing Prompts Bundle - An Entire School Year

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