Less than $5 8th Grade Creative Writing Handouts (by price, low to high)

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?

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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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• Polygons for beginners.
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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?

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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

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!

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

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 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

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

A 15 page resource for student publishing of essays and written works includes: Guideline checklist Author Tips Cover Sheet/Query Letter Publishing Tips Where to Send Work: Online, local, regional, national... Books for Publishing Help Blogging Self-Publishing Publishing Checklist to Guide Students through the Process Publishing Summary List (Keep up with correspondence) Can be used individually, small/whole group, with flipped classrooms, homework, assessment of writing processes, for peer workshopping, grammar reinforcements, and as real life writing assignment. Easy to follow and implement in ELA/Journalism classrooms.

Engage your students in a creative writing activity that combines imagination, persuasion, and argumentation. This resource provides students with a compelling prompt to write a persuasive letter to their parents, arguing why their witch should remain a permanent member of the family!

What's Included?

• Customize the witch's face to match their imagination.
• Start with opinion and reasons.
• Continue to write the essay.

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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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Egg-citement fills the air! Your students have stumbled upon a mysterious egg, unlike any they've seen before. But wait, there's more! The egg hatches, revealing a creature NOT A bunny! This activity provides the perfect opportunity for students to practice narrative writing in descriptive paragraphs, capturing the wonder and surprise of this extraordinary discovery.

What's Included?

• Egg Design Template: A blank egg template allows students to unleash their creativity and illustrate the mysterious egg before it hatches. Encourage them to consider its size, color, patterns, or any unique features that set it apart.
• Narrative Writing Prompt:
  A writing prompt guides students through the storytelling process:

1. Discovery: Describe the scene where you find the egg. Where are you? What are you doing? How do you discover the egg? Use vivid details to paint a picture for your reader.
2. Mystery: The egg is unlike any you've seen before! Describe its appearance in detail. What is its size, color, texture, or any other remarkable features that pique your curiosity?
3. Hatching Time! Suspense builds as the egg begins to crack. Describe the sounds and sights leading to the big reveal. What emotions do you feel?
4. Surprise! The egg hatches, but instead of a bunny, a creature unlike any you've ever seen emerges! Describe this unexpected creature in detail. Focus on its appearance, size, and any unique features that make it special.
5. A New Friend? The story doesn't end here! What happens next? Do you befriend the creature? Do you embark on an adventure together? Leave the ending open for students to use their imaginations and create a unique conclusion.

⭐Narrative Writings:

Benny the Bunny - Speaks on Easter Day

Earth Layers

Turkey Escaped Dinner

Trapped in a Snow Globe

Snowman Came to Life**⭐**

⭐More for Easter:

Rename Fractions | Easter/Spring Bunnies**⭐**

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Explore the fascinating world of plant growth with my comprehensive writing prompts and note-taking sheets on the plant life cycle.  Designed for middle to high school students, these educational resources provide engaging activities and structured note-taking templates to enhance understanding and retention of key concepts.  From seed germination to flowering and seed dispersal, each stage of the plant life cycle is covered in detail, encouraging curiosity and scientific inquiry.  Ideal for classroom use or individual study, these sheets support a hands-on learning approach that makes science fun and accessible.

These writing prompts would be perfectly paired with the Plant Life Cycle Full Unit Study:

Comprehensive Plant Life Cycle Unit Study

Please also check out my other Plant and Fungi Life Cycle resources:

FREE Plant & Fungi Life Cycle - Reading Passages, Q & A, and Note-taking Pages

Comprehensive Fungi Life Cycle Unit Study

Comprehensive Plant and Fungi Life Cycle Unit Study Bundle

Dive into the intriguing world of fungi with our detailed writing prompts and note-taking sheets on the fungi life cycle. Perfect for students of all ages, these educational resources offer engaging activities and structured note-taking templates to enhance understanding of fungi development. From spore formation to fruiting bodies, each stage of the fungi life cycle is meticulously covered, fostering curiosity and scientific exploration. Ideal for classroom use or individual study, these sheets support a hands-on learning approach, making the study of fungi both fun and informative.

These writing prompts would be perfectly paired with the Fungi Life Cycle Full Unit Study:
Comprehensive Fungi Life Cycle Unit Study

Please also check out my other Plant and Fungi Life Cycle resources:

FREE Plant & Fungi Life Cycle - Reading Passages, Q & A, and Note-taking Pages

Comprehensive Plant Life Cycle Unit Study

Comprehensive Plant and Fungi Life Cycle Unit Study Bundle

Calling all reformed villains! This holiday season, ditch the coal and rewrite your story. This activity allows students to use their imagination and persuasive writing skills to convince Santa Claus they deserve a spot on the nice list!

What's Included:

• Reformed Villain Graphic Organizer: Help students brainstorm and visualize their villainous character and their path to redemption.
• Persuasive Letter to Santa Template: Provide a structured format for students to craft their convincing arguments.
• List of Infamous Villains: Offer inspiration and a starting point for character selection.

⭐Want more writing for Christmas?⭐

Trapped in a Snow Globe | Narrative Writing

Who Will Guide The Sleigh | Persuasive Writing**⭐**

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

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

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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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• Polygons for beginners.
• Coordinate for beginners.
• Fractions for beginners.

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Help teens with empathy and kindness by giving access to personalized cards. This 23 page packet addresses friendship, health, love, and self-confidence. Helps address the whole student, provide emotional support, promote positive messages, and reinforce collaborative peer interactions with make and give, creative writing teen cards. Includes: 5 male and 5 female front sided cards 10 inspirational sayings with writing spaces Blank writing sections for creative personalized messages Black and white images for coloring Personalized signs on back: "Made Especially for You by" Directions for use Unlimited combination options: Numbered front pages match numbered inside quotes for infinite copying options Excellent for teaching description, main idea, genre writing, and word choices. Great for bell warmers, early finishers, and journaling. Can be used with homeschooled groups, counseling groups, service learning, and writing clubs. Fun, creative, thought provoking, and motivational. Can even be used at teacher professional development sessions!

Spark your students' imaginations with these engaging Easter-themed narrative writing prompts! This bundle offers two exciting storylines to inspire creative writing and storytelling.

What's Included:

• Benny the Bunny's Easter Surprise: Challenge students to write a story about a silent bunny who can only speak on Easter Day. Encourage them to develop the plot, characters, and setting to create a captivating tale.
• Not Bunny, But... Egg-cellent Surprise! Ignite curiosity with this unexpected twist! Students will craft a story around a creature that hatches from an Easter egg, exploring imaginative possibilities and character development.

These writing prompts offer opportunities for students to practice descriptive language, plot development, and character building while having fun with the Easter theme.

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