Less than $5 4th Grade Creative Writing Handouts (by date, oldest first)

Graphic organizers can be helpful in being visual aids when students are writing.

• Helps students focus on their thoughts for planning, decision-making, and writing an essay

• Helps students see the connections, patterns, and relationships between facts, concepts, and ideas 

• Organizers provide a visual depiction for writers by showing them where each piece of the essay is placed within an essay

Venn Diagrams show the relationship between two ideas. A venn diagram can have two or more circles. When the circles overlap, the venn diagram shows the similarities between the two or more ideas. In the spaces where the circles do not overlap, it shows the differences between the two or more ideas.

I hope your students/children enjoy this compare & contrast by understanding the importance of why a graphic organizer is needed, as well as understanding the variables of a Venn Diagram.

Venn Diagram Graphic Organizer is in Google Slides, Powerpoint, and PDF formats.

Happy Writing!

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This word sleuth will provide your students/children with a fun journey in writing ELA Essays with key vocabulary words. It can be done in class, centers, or as a fun homework assignment.

Word sleuth is in PPTX format along with the answer key.

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Graphic organizers can be helpful as a visual aid when students are writing.

• Helps students focus on their thoughts for planning, decision-making, and writing an essay

• Helps students see the connections, patterns, and relationships between facts, concepts, and ideas 

• Organizers provide a visual depiction for writers by showing them where each piece of the essay is placed within an essay

Spider maps are used to display the main concept or idea in a circle in the middle of the map and supporting ideas branch off from the main concept circle.

I hope your students/children enjoy this concept map by understanding the importance of why a graphic organizer is needed, as well as understanding the variables of a concept map.

The Spider Map is in Google Slides, Powerpoint, and PDF formats.

Happy Writing!

Tina Arozena

Big Easy Homeschooling Mom

Graphic organizers are helpful as a visual aid when students are writing.

-Helps students focus on their thoughts for planning, decision-making, and writing an essay

-Helps students see the connections, patterns, and relationships between facts, concepts, and ideas

-Organizers provide a visual depiction for writers by showing them where each piece of the essay is placed within an essay

Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer:

-Introduction

-1st, 2nd & 3rd reason you disagree

-Counterargument with 3 opposing views

-Rebuttal to opposing views

-Conclusion

I hope your students/children enjoy this concept map by understanding the importance of why a graphic organizer is needed, as well as understanding the variables of a concept map.

The Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer is in Google Slides, PowerPoint, and PDF formats.

Happy Writing!

Tina Arozena

Big Easy Homeschooling Mom

Graphic organizers can be helpful in being visual aids when students are writing.

• Helps students focus on their thoughts for planning, decision-making, and writing an essay

• Helps students see the connections, patterns, and relationships between facts, concepts, and ideas 

• Organizers provide a visual depiction for writers by showing them where each piece of the essay is placed within an essay

Bubble maps are used to display two different main ideas, their similarities, and their differences.

I hope your students/children enjoy this bubble map by understanding the importance of why a graphic organizer is needed, as well as understanding the variables of a bubble map.

Bubble map is in Google Slides, Powerpoint, and PDF formats.

Happy Writing!

Tina Arozena

Big Easy Homeschooling Mom

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Graphic organizers can be helpful as a visual aid when students are writing.

• Helps students focus on their thoughts for planning, decision-making, and writing an essay

• Helps students see the connections, patterns, and relationships between facts, concepts, and ideas 

• Organizers provide a visual depiction for writers by showing them where each piece of the essay is placed within an essay

Narrative plot graphic organizer:

• Starts with the introduction or exposition
• Followed by the rising action of the story
• Rising action hits a climax
• After the climax is the falling action
• From the falling action, we come to the conclusion

I hope your students/children enjoy this concept map by understanding the importance of why a graphic organizer is needed, as well as understanding the variables of a concept map.

The Narrative Plot Graphic Organizer is in Google Slides, Powerpoint, and PDF formats.

Happy Writing!

Tina Arozena

Big Easy Homeschooling Mom

Graphic organizers can be helpful in being visual aids when students are writing.

• Helps students focus on their thoughts for planning, decision-making, and writing an essay

• Helps students see the connections, patterns, and relationships between facts, concepts, and ideas 

• Organizers provide a visual depiction for writers by showing them where each piece of the essay is placed within an essay

Concept maps are used to display a main idea within the concept and the different ideas that branch out from the main idea.

I hope your students/children enjoy this concept map by understanding the importance of why a graphic organizer is needed, as well as understanding the variables of a concept map.

Concept map is in Google Slides, Powerpoint, and PDF formats.

Happy Writing!

Tina Arozena

Big Easy Homeschooling Mom

Graphic organizers can be helpful as a visual aid when students are writing.

• Helps students focus on their thoughts for planning, decision-making, and writing an essay

• Helps students see the connections, patterns, and relationships between facts, concepts, and ideas 

• Organizers provide a visual depiction for writers by showing them where each piece of the essay is placed within an essay

Persuasive essay maps are used as a visual aid to map out points and arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.

• 1st - determine your claim or thesis
• 2nd - identify three (3) reasons to support the claim or thesis
• 3rd - identify three (3) facts or examples to validate each reason

I hope your students/children enjoy this concept map by understanding the importance of why a graphic organizer is needed, as well as understanding the variables of a concept map.

The Persuasive Essay Map is in Google Slides, Powerpoint, and PDF formats.

Happy Writing!

Tina Arozena

Big Easy Homeschooling Mom

March lined writing paper with picture box for 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade. This printable, ready to go March paper makes a great bulletin board, creative writing assignment, journal writing, or hallway display for the month of March.

Each St Patrick's day printable writing paper with a picture box design has

2 Types of paper:

• writing lines only
• writing lines and picture box

3 designs

• pot of gold
• lucky leprechaun
• lucky leprechaun hat

Get the Matching Craft Activity (for less than $2) to use with this March writing paper:

March/ St. Patrick's Day craft

This printable writing paper is perfect for St. Patty's day activities in 1st grade, 2nd grade, or 3rd grade, 4th grade creative writing. crafting imaginative stories, practicing their descriptive writing skills, or exploring poetry, daily March journaling, writing centers, free writing or as a supplement to your language arts curriculum.

Any elementary teacher could benefit from this lined writing paper printable for any type of March literacy activity.

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Engaging Writing templates for boys and girls!

Fifteen fun front and back templates!

A fun border design for each template:

1. Spooky Spiders
2. Horses
3. Pandas
4. Safari Animals
5. Woodland Creatures
6. Sweet Desserts
7. Junk Food
8. Frogs
9. Gorillas and Bananas
10. Puppies
11. Naruto
12. Princesses
13. Harry Potter
14. Aliens
15. Butterflies and Flowers

I don't know about you, but my students love weird things! For a heavy writing assignment, what is better than giving your students a fun and crazy choice template to write on? I made these templates at my own students' request, so naturally, I had to laugh often as I designed each one. Enjoy!

Includes:

• 15 different templates
  • Each of the designs are pictured in the previews! No need to buy without seeing the entire product!
  • Animals, food, anime, princess, and Disney movie themes!
  • There is a front and back to each design.
  • 1.5 line spacing
  • Blanks for name, number, and title

Your feedback is appreciated!

ALL of the worksheets included are pictured in the thumbnails!

Description:

✬This is a set of nine writing worksheets meant to target and assist in specific writing skills.

✬The topics include the following:

✬Using transition words

✬Comparing and Contrasting

✬Using adjectives in detailed writing

✬Writing with emotions

✬Sequencing Events

✬Summarizing

✬Opinion Writing

✬Using Spelling and Vocabulary words

✬Writing with tone

✬Many of these worksheets have the student write a short story of their choice with the included skill. You can easily narrow that down for students who need more direction.

✬As stated before, the focus is writing. There is extra writing space for students to continue practicing and developing this skill!

✬Most of the worksheets allow you to choose the challenge level for your students. Whether you have them all write ten examples or choose to have a few only write five, you can adjust the difficulty simply by writing the number of examples you want in the provided blanks!

Your feedback is appreciated!

Everything included in this packet is featured in the thumbnails!

Description:

✬This is a set of ten writing worksheets for getting to know your students, while practicing writing skills. This set would be perfect for the first few weeks of school!

✬The topics include writing about the student’s:

✬Best friend

✬Favorite place in the world

✬Personal goals

✬Dream job

✬Perfect day

✬One-million-dollar dream

✬Funniest thing to happen

✬Belief of what makes them special

✬Behavior if they changed roles with their parents for a day

✬Dream superpower

✬There is a back page included as the last page in this set. Add a back to any page by simply custom printing the two pages you want!

Your feedback is appreciated!

Sponge activities!

Have advanced writers in your class that always finish early? Look no farther! Give those students a Creative Writing Sponge activity. This will help your students associate writing with fun and advance their handwriting and grammatical skills! I have also found that it helps indecisive students narrow down what they could write about by giving them limited options! This could be graded as extra credit or left as just an fun extra activity.

Includes:

• 10 writing templates
• A total of 20 creative writing options split between templates
• Multi-colored backgrounds
• All designs are included in the thumbnails for viewing

Your feedback is appreciated!

Élevez les compétences en écriture de vos élèves avec cette ressource complète sur le choix des mots et l'enrichissement du langage !

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Développez le plein potentiel d'écriture de vos élèves avec cette ressource exhaustive de 45 pages conçue pour affiner le choix des mots et améliorer les compétences linguistiques. Idéal pour les éducateurs cherchant à approfondir la compréhension et l'application des techniques d'écriture efficaces, ce produit couvre une large gamme de stratégies pour améliorer la qualité de l'écriture.

Ce qui est inclus :

• 7 mini-leçons détaillées : Chaque leçon se concentre sur un aspect clé de l'amélioration de l'écriture :

• Le choix des mots : Stratégies pour étendre les phrases, utiliser des verbes forts et incorporer des adjectifs et adverbes pour une écriture plus dynamique.

• Identification des verbes communs : Techniques pour éviter les verbes surutilisés et explorer des alternatives spécifiques et impactantes.

• Éviter les redondances : Identifier et éliminer les redondances pour rendre l’écriture plus concise et efficace.

• Utiliser des adjectifs plus précis : Maîtriser l'utilisation d'adjectifs précis à l'aide de thésaurus, dictionnaires et outils en ligne.

• Précision du langage technique et spécialisé : Écrire avec expertise en évitant les termes vagues et en employant un vocabulaire précis et spécialisé.

• Utiliser des données pour soutenir les arguments : Intégrer la recherche, les faits et les données de manière efficace dans l'écriture pour renforcer les arguments.

• Utiliser des expressions figurées : Créer des métaphores et des comparaisons pour enrichir l'écriture et la rendre plus vivante.

• Documents détaillés : Améliorez le choix des verbes et évitez les verbes communs avec des listes de 20 verbes surutilisés et des synonymes forts et efficaces.

• Textes de compréhension : Pratiquez les stratégies avec des textes engageants conçus pour aider les élèves à appliquer leurs nouvelles compétences.

• Extraits et échantillons d'écriture : Analysez et révisez des extraits pour améliorer le choix des mots et éviter les redondances.

• Activités imprimables et affiches pédagogiques : Des tableaux lumineux et descriptifs pour soutenir les leçons, utilisables en formats divers : imprimés pour les classeurs, projetés pour les activités en classe, ou affichés sur les murs.

• 13 activités suggérées supplémentaires : Explorez et pratiquez davantage les stratégies pour assurer la maîtrise.

Donnez à vos élèves les moyens d'écrire avec plus de précision et de créativité, et aidez-les à développer un œil critique pour l'utilisation d'un langage fort avec ce produit pédagogique complet et engageant.

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• Écriture: Générer les idées
• Écriture: Endurance et motivation
• Écriture: La structure et la fluidité
• Écriture: Améliorer le choix de mots
• Écriture: Introductions & Conclusions
• Lecture: Solutionner les mots
• Lecture: La visualisation
• Lecture: Faire des liens
• Lecture: Connaissances antérieures
• Lecture: Faire des prédictions
• Lecture: Faire des inférences
• Lecture: Informations clés
• Lecture: Stratégies de réparation

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Cette ressource comprend 16 semaines d'incitations d'écriture créative (4 questions au choix chaque semaine) pour un total de 60 incitations! Elles se présentent sous la forme de « démarreurs d'histoires », où les élèves réfléchissent ou inventent une histoire ou une expérience.

Vous pouvez demander aux élèves de choisir un nombre d'incitations d'écriture par semaine (ou tout!) et vous pouvez aussi choisir la quantité d'écriture. Vous pouvez choisir de les rendre formels ou informels, formatifs ou sommatifs. Vous pouvez choisir de les faire comme devoirs ou en classe.

Ils sont excellents en tant qu'activités de remplacement pour les enseignants!

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Unlock the secret to emotional well-being with our captivating and interactive flipbook and slide presentation, designed to empower elementary students. Discover the transformative power of embracing our emotions and nurturing our mental health. It's time to embrace the mantra that it's okay not to be okay!

Prepare to embark on an enthralling journey as students delve into a world of feelings and moods, guided by this engaging resource. Explore the depths of mental health, positive self-talk, and self-care, while immersing in vibrant sentence prompts, captivating speech bubbles, and stimulating group discussions.

Crafted with the profound purpose of Bell Let's Talk Day, this invaluable tool recognizes the paramount importance of prioritizing mental well-being, especially in the realm of childhood development. Just as we diligently care for our physical health, it's imperative to nurture and safeguard the fragile landscapes of young minds. Together, let's spread the message that #BellLet'sTalk is not just a hashtag—it's a rallying cry for a brighter, more emotionally resilient future.

Equip your students with the tools they need to navigate the complexities of their emotions, fostering a culture of empathy, self-awareness, and open communication. Unlock the secrets to building emotional intelligence, resilience, and self-acceptance. This captivating resource promises to ignite a spark of self-discovery, empowering students to embrace their feelings and prioritize their mental well-being.

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This cloud of thoughts cute simple and basic graphic organizer is a great tool for students to benefit from brainstorming activities. It is can be used to many different books in any curriculum or else. Two versions are avalaible.

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This pumpkin bundle for October and november is wonderful for weekly or monthly spelling tests. Each product is fall theme and contains different number of words, it keeps learners engaged while working! It offers a variety of printables (10, 15, 20 and 25 words spelling test papers , versions: dotted lines, single lines, etc.) that can best fit your classroom needs!

This sheet can be used for: Spelling pre-test, Spelling test, Writing test and Sentence Dictations, It is nice because it is pre-numbered and has primary lines for neat handwriting. Perfect for educators seeking efficiency and clarity, this resource includes two versions: One with single-line paper featuring regular numbers, and another with dotted-line paper.

Ways to use this product:

• Whole Group Instruction
• Small Group Instruction
• Homework
• Centers
• Special Education
• Distance Learning

Why use this resource:

• Festive Theme: Engaging fall pumpkins design makes learning fun.
• Eco-Friendly: Two templates per page to reduce paper waste.
• Pre-Test Version: Helps assess student knowledge before the main test.
• Color Options: Available in black-and-white and color for flexibility.
• Variety in Format: Handwriting and normal lines cater to different needs.
• Time-Saving: Ready-to-use template simplifies lesson preparation.
• Versatile: Adaptable for various grade levels and spelling lists.

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This end of year journal, the Cactus Chronicles, is the perfect way for students to reflect on their growth and accomplishments throughout the school year. Each writing prompt is accompanied by a blank page with lines to provide additional writing space if needed. The journal/diary is designed in a black and white cactus theme, making it easy and affordable to print for the entire class. The pack also includes a 2023 and 2024 cover page as well as a blank one for future use. With 10 different fun writing prompts, including Reflections on the Year, My Favorite Memories, Lessons I've Learned, Goals for Next Year, Messages to My Future Self, My Best Achievements, Farewell to Friends, Things I Will Miss, Thank You Notes, and Goodbye School Year, this no-prep easy to print workbook can be used as a classroom activity or as a gift for students to take home at the end of the year. Encourage your students to capture their memories and growth in this fun and engaging way while improving creative and critical thinking. This pack accommodates US and UK english spelling.

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