4th Grade Creative Writing Resources (by rating)

When it comes to writing, suggesting prompts can be extremely helpful for students. By providing a prompt, you can give students a specific topic or area to focus on, which can help them better organize their thoughts and ideas. Additionally, writing prompts can help spark creativity and encourage students to think outside the box.

There are six Christmas-themed writing prompts, with coordinating primary handwriting pages included. Students can also illustrate a scene in the space above their writing.

Not only will using writing prompts help get your students excited about writing, but it will also help them to 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’ll 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!

❄️ You're invited to the Winter Wonderland category! ❄️ Do you want to create lots of festive winter memories with your students this year? You'll find a growing collection of seasonal printables like music, writing, and fun activities for your classroom or homeschool in one shop section - and we're always adding more!

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!

Bring excitement and independent exploration into your science classroom with these 52 editable Science Enrichment Prompts! Perfect for fostering critical thinking, curiosity, and research skills, this resource allows students to dive into fascinating science topics like the Solar System, Marie Curie, Black Holes, and Paleontology. Each prompt is fully customizable, making it easy to tailor to your specific needs and grade level.

Why Teachers Love This Resource:

• Editable & Flexible: Adjust each prompt to fit your classroom’s unique learning goals.
• Year-Long Enrichment: With 52 weeks of projects, this resource offers continuous learning opportunities.
• Easy to Implement: No prep required—just print, glue into journals, and let students explore!
• Engages Students: Prompts are designed to spark curiosity in students, encouraging independent research on diverse topics.
• Develops Key Skills: Students will build their research, writing, and critical thinking skills, making this an ideal addition to any enrichment program.

Whether you are looking to challenge advanced learners or provide extra support for students needing more engagement, these science prompts make it easy to bring differentiated instruction to your classroom.

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!

Writing a story can be so overwhelming! I have come with this writing pack that is intended to help your students organize their ideas before writing their first draft. This step-by-step activity groups every aspect of story writing such as: genre, setting, characters, details, etc. It also helps the students with their descriptive writing by asking them targeted questions. This is an excellent tool for beginner writers, struggling writers, or English Language learners.

Use the "Writing Buddy" resource as a complement resource to help your students become more independent when writing a short story.

You can use these resources for several days, giving students a chance to think through while writing their first draft.

This is the ultimate October Language Arts/Creative Writing bundle. Use these printables all month long. There are informative, opinion, and creative writing prompts. Then there are fun activities like acrostic poems, haikus, letter brainstorms and more. You won't be bored with all these Halloween themed activities. There are 19 pages included and ready to print and use.

What is all included:

Guided & Create your own Haiku & Cinquain

2 Ready to use acrostic poems

2 Creative Letter Brainstorms

Scrambled Words

2 Story Starters

Create your own spooky recipe

Halloween costume deductive reasoning worksheet

Opinion Writing with graphic organizer & writing paper

Informative writing with graphic organizer & writing paper

Compare & Contrast Halloween topics

An opinion coloring page about Halloween

Enjoy this spooky Halloween season by making your life easier and printing these ready to go activities for your classroom. Let your class use their imagination to create some fun Halloween themed products.

Want one of the items in this bundle? Take a look at my store Finding the Fish. Here are some quick links to some products included.

Opinion Writing with Graphic Organizer

Halloween Cinquain

If you enjoyed this product, please leave a review and follow my store. If you would like to see more products by me follow the link Finding the Fish. Thank you for your purchase and I hope you enjoy!

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.

You May Also Like

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

Free TeachShare CREDITS for your next PURCHASE!

Log in to your TeachShare account. Go to your My Purchases page. Beside each purchase, you'll see a Provide Feedback Button. Simply click it, give a quick rating, and leave a short comment on that product.

Each time you give feedback, TeachShare gives you credits that will save you $$ on future purchases.

Also, follow me here to get notified when I upload new products.

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

Get ready to bring the spooky season into your classroom with this no-prep, figurative language lesson plan! Perfect for Grades 4-6, this resource is designed to introduce or review seven types of figurative language—simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, imagery, and onomatopoeia—all with a spooky twist!

This lesson plan includes engaging slides, guided notes with fill-in-the-blanks, and spooky examples that will keep your students excited about learning. Plus, it comes with a fun activity using the lyrics from "This is Halloween" and a creative writing extension for students to write their own spooky stories.

What’s Included:

• No-Prep Lesson Plan: Just print or project and you’re ready to go!
• Engaging Slides with definitions and spooky examples of each figurative language type.
• Guided Notes for students to actively participate and complete during the lesson.
• Interactive Activity: Students analyze figurative language from the "This is Halloween" song.
• Creative Writing Extension: Students write their own spooky stories using figurative language.

Why You'll Love This Resource:

No Prep: Ready to use with zero planning!
Perfect for Spooky Season: Engages students with Halloween-themed examples and activities.
Flexible Use: Great as a full lesson, extension activity, or writing center resource.
Lesson Plan Included: Easy-to-follow, detailed lesson plan to guide your instruction.

Bring some spooky fun to your classroom this fall with this engaging figurative language lesson! Whether you’re introducing the concept for the first time or reviewing it, your students will be creatively inspired while mastering essential ELA skills.

This fun and engaging burger-themed rubric makes writing expectations clear and understandable for students. With four clear levels of achievement, this rubric provides valuable guidance for students to improve their writing skills.

What's Included:

• Four-Level Rubric: Detailed criteria for each level, from "Incomplete Work" to "Above and Beyond," covering essential writing elements.
• Versatile Format: Suitable for both classroom posters and individual student printouts as a guide for each student's binder/writing assignment.

⭐Writing Attempts:

Narrative
Christmas: Trapped in a Snow Globe | My Snowman Came to Life
Thanksgiving: How the Turkey Escaped Thanksgiving Dinner | How the Turkey Escaped Thanksgiving Dinner

Others: Journey to the Center of the Earth | Forms of Energy in my Car - Science, Art & WRITING Project

Easter: Benny the Bunny - Easter's Surprise | NOT Bunny - Eggcelent Easter/Spring Surprise

Halloween: Trapped in a Haunted House

Persuasive | Dear Santa - Villains Edition | Who Will Guide the Sleigh | Halloween: Can I Keep My Witch?

Don't forget to share with me how it went with your little ones. I hope it was useful in your classroom.

If you like this product, follow my store -Mettry Teaches- for more.

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.

Please check out the preview images to see what’s included.

Hope you and your students enjoy this resource.

We really appreciate your sparing a few moments to review this resource.

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.

**Boost Writing Skills with Engaging Independent Informal Letter Lessons – Ready to Go!
**

Master Formal Letter Writing with Engaging, Low-Prep Lessons

Empower students in Grades 1-5 to excel at formal letter writing with this comprehensive, print-and-go resource. Tailored for independent learning, this packet offers a clear, step-by-step framework to help students confidently craft polished and professional letters. Ideal for teachers seeking a time-saving, curriculum-aligned solution to enhance writing skills.

**What’s Included?
**✏️ Print Materials: Worksheets, Answer Keys, PDF Slides

What’s Inside?

✔️ Teacher & Student Directions
✔️ Features of an Informal Letter

✔️ Informal Letter Features Exercise

✔️ Step 1: Desired School Trip Framework

✔️ Step 2: Impact of the Trip Framework

✔️ Step 3: Letter Writing Template

✔️ Step 4: Review & Self-Reflection
✔️ 3 Options of Letter Writing Template

✔️ Model Answers

Why You’ll Love This Resource:

✏️ No Prep 

✏️ Print and Go

✏️ Classroom-Tested

✏️ Aligned with Aligned with Common Core, TEKS, and UK National Curriculum.

**When to Use This Resource:
**✅ Literacy Lessons (1-2 hour lessons)

✅ Independent Work

✅ **Literacy Centers
**✅ Sub Plans

✅ Writing Workshops ✅ **Homework Assignments
**✅ Early Finishers

**
What Do You Need?**

✏️ Pencils

**Skills Focused:
**✔️ Formal letter structure

✔️ Idea organization

✔️ Sentence fluency

✔️ Editing and self-assessment

✔️ Professional tone and language

✔️ Independent writing skills

Curriculum Alignment

**
Common Core State Standards (CCSS)**:

• W.1.2-W.5.2: Write informative/explanatory texts with clear purpose and structure
• W.1.4-W.5.4: Produce clear, coherent writing appropriate to task and audience
• L.1.5-L.5.5: Demonstrate command of word nuances and formal language

**
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)**:

§110.3-§110.7 (Grades 1-5):

• • (b)(11)(A): Develop drafts with clear purpose and audience
  • (b)(12)(B): Apply proper capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
  • (b)(13)(A-B): Edit drafts to improve grammar and clarity

**
UK National Curriculum (Years 1-5)**:

• Writing Composition: Plan and write for specific purposes and audiences
• Grammar and Punctuation: Use appropriate formal language and punctuation

Bonus Benefits:
✅ Boosts Confidence
✅ Enhances Foundational & Editing Skills
✅ Proven classroom success

**
Extra Perks:
**⭐ Earn TeachShare Credits: Leave a review and earn credits for future purchases

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We Strive for 5 Stars! Use the Q&A tab for support

YOU MIGHT ALSO LOVE:

• Boost Informal Letter Writing Skills: Independent Resource
• Mastering Vocabulary & Descriptive Writing Essentials
• Sensory Writing Pack (Grades 3-6)

Embark on a festive journey with "30 Christmas Writing Prompts with Sentence Starters for Kids Grades 3-4" a delightful collection of 30 Christmas sentence starters tailored.

Sparking creativity and imagination, each prompt is crafted to inspire young minds to weave magical tales of holiday joy and adventure. From mischievous elves to talking snowmen.

Perfect for classrooms, bedtime stories, or cozy holiday gatherings, this worksheet is a treasure trove of imagination waiting to be unlocked. Get ready to embark on a holiday adventure like never before!

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

Want to earn a few dollars toward your TeachShare purchases? If you leave a review for this product, or any other product you purchase, you will get money toward your future items.

I love to hear how you are using the items in your classroom and would love to have your feedback to help improve my shop.

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.

♥ Follow me for more French resources! Click the green star button by my name in my shop. Check out some of the other products I have.

If you love this resource:

***1. French SOR Sound Cards

***2. French Decodable Reading

***3. Roles et Responsabilites

***4. French Number Line

***5. French Attention Grabbers

***6. French Speaking Passport

***7. French Pyramid Reading

***8. Phrases Decodables 5 Le son UI

***9. Cartes Phonemiques Les voyelles

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

Check out French Science of Reading Assessment Tool

Merci!

Ingrid

Terms of Use:

© La Trousse de Madame 2024. All rights reserved by author. These materials are intended for personal use by a single classroom only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. For use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. See product file for clip art and font credits.

Did you know that there is no land at the North Pole? It's all made of ice! Learn more about the North Pole in this comprehensive reading comprehension Google lesson.

This product is so easy to use and has practically no prep:

1. Read the book
2. Print the 9-page template
3. Review the no-prep reading comprehension Google lesson with a built-in reward system (students LOVE this feature!)
4. Fill out the book report template based on the reading comprehension review as a group or independent work/homework

The template pages include (and are reviewed in the digital Google lesson):

• book title info
• rating & review
• vocabulary
• facts
• the land (animals & landmarks)
• key information (capital, population, languages, climate, agriculture, natural resources, politicians)
• what I learned
• questions I have
• historic events
• draw a map

Love,

Teacher Bethanie

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!

❤️Click Here to Follow Us!

Related Products

⭐ Engineer Character Traits

⭐ Engineering and Design Process Posters

⭐ Famous Engineer and Inventor Posters for Elementary Grades

⭐ Rubric for Engineering and Design Challenges: Posters and Recording Sheet

⭐ Car Engineering Challenge Using Building Bricks

⭐ Family STEM Night All Inclusive Package!

⭐ Family STEM/STEAM Challenges with SAMMIE STEAM!

Customer Tips:

How to get TeachShare credit to use towards future purchases:

*Please go to your My Purchases page (you need to login). Next to each purchase, you’ll see a Provide Feedback button. Click that and you will be taken to a page where you can give a rating and leave a short comment about the product. Each time you give feedback, TeachShare gives you credit that you can use towards your future purchases.

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.

***DID YOU KNOW that you can earn money for future TeachShare purchases when you leave feedback on a resource you purchased?!?!? All you have to do is leave feedback on the purchased resource! When you do so, you earn TpT credits. These TpT credits can be redeemed and used toward future purchases!

***Reviews and Ratings: Reviews and Ratings are extremely important to me. Your time to rate this product and write a review will greatly be appreciated! ;-)

***CONTACT ME - Please feel free to contact me anytime! I'd love to hear from you!

Email: queenseducationalresources@gmail.com

FOLLOW ME on TeachShare, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest for resource updates, sales, and freebies!

Facebook - Queen's Educational Resources

Pinterest - Queen's Educational Resources

Instagram - Queen's Educational Resources

TeachShare - Queen's Educational Resources

Title: A Rainbow of Words

Topic: Describe yourself using Adjectives

Grade: Grades 3-4

This product contains a detailed proposal of the writing activity, rubrics and a template which can be reproduced.

8.5 x 11 inches, 200 Pages Blank Pages Paper, College Ruled, Lined Journal & Music Sheet for Writing and Music Composition

Perfect for teachers and students to write in everything they want

Enjoy it, Thanks

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.

You may also like…
→ Pin the Nose on the Reindeer Game
→Christmas Holiday Build a Nutcracker Craft Activity
→ Christmas Build a/Crown/Mask Santa, Christmas Tree, Gnome, Reindeer, Elf,Snowman

Copyright © Marte Business Services.
Permission to copy for single classroom/homeschool use only.
Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.

If you will be using for commercial license, please purchase an additional license for every 10 subscription box you make or for every 20 children you have in class.