Less than $5 High School Creative Writing Activities

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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Wanted! Book Villains! Turn your students into character analysis detectives with this engaging and creative activity! By creating wanted posters for their favorite book villains, students will dive deep into character traits, motivations, and physical descriptions.

What's Included:

• Wanted Poster Template: A customizable template to guide students in creating their posters.
• Wanted Poster Example: A visual model for inspiration and structure.
• Villain List: A helpful resource for students who need a starting point or alternative characters.

This resource encourages critical thinking, creativity, and a deeper understanding of characters.

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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.

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

Gen Z vs. The Oldies: The Ultimate Language Showdown in Google Slides!

Is "Yeet" the new "Groovy"? This interactive Google Slides activity throws down a fun challenge for students of all ages to explore the fascinating world of generational language!

Here's what makes it epic for your classroom:

• Generational Lingo Smackdown: Students will decode slang terms and expressions used by both Gen Z and "The Oldies," uncovering the evolution of language across time.
• Communication Crossroads: This activity sparks lively discussions or writing assignments as students delve into the cultural nuances of language and how communication styles differ between generations.
• Tech-Savvy & Teacher-Friendly: No need to be a tech guru! This easy-to-use Google Slides resource is perfect for in-person or virtual classrooms, making learning a breeze.
• Beyond the Textbook: Forget boring lectures! This interactive showdown ignites curiosity and fosters engaging conversations, leaving students with a deeper understanding of language and communication.
• Flexible Fun: Liven up brain breaks, morning meetings, or use it as a kick-off or wrap-up activity for the school year. It's guaranteed to spark laughter and learning!

Benefits for Students:

• Develops critical thinking and communication skills
• Bridges the generation gap through language understanding
• Makes learning about language history fun and engaging
• Encourages active participation and discussion
• Promotes cultural awareness and understanding

Help your students become language ninjas with the Gen Z vs. The Oldies: Language Showdown!

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Engage your students in a captivating exploration of the celestial wonder that is a total solar eclipse with these total solar eclipse poetry and creative writing prompts! This comprehensive resource is designed specifically for 7th to 9th-grade classrooms and is meticulously crafted to align with Common Core State Standards, ensuring meaningful and educational experiences for your students.

Inside this collection, you'll find 12 poetry prompts and 9 creative writing prompts, all centered around the theme of total solar eclipses. These prompts are thought-provoking and provide students with a deeper understanding of astronomy while honing their language arts skills.

The poetry prompts encourage students to explore the beauty and mystery of total solar eclipses through vivid imagery, figurative language, and emotional expression. Students will delve into topics such as the symbolism of darkness and light, the dance of the sun and moon, and the cultural significance of eclipses throughout history.

In addition to the poetry prompts, the creative writing prompts in this collection challenge students. From crafting science fiction stories set in eclipse-powered futures to debating the cultural impact of eclipses in ancient civilizations, these prompts foster critical thinking and imaginative exploration.

As the upcoming total solar eclipse captures the curiosity and wonder of students everywhere, this collection provides you with a ready-to-use resource that seamlessly integrates science, language arts, and creativity. Spark meaningful discussions, inspire literary creations, and deepen your students' understanding of the universe with these prompts.

Journal writing prompts that reflect winter activities(no religious holidays/symbols). 24 Great story starters for journal writes, essay writings, or on-demand practices. Wonderful, engaging visuals with easy-to-understand sentences.

Students will use the prompts and drawing templates to design their own Protagonist with a unique backstory and their own set of skills, strengths & weaknesses. This resource includes three options: a male version, a female version, and a blank canvas where any of your more creative students can create something truly unique. Students who like to trace will also appreciate the blank version. Use this assignment for early finishers or to supplement and support any creative writing assignment & quickly elevate your student's storytelling to the next level.

Increase student engagement and writing skills during the winter season with these 15 no-prep and Christmas-themed finish-the-story editable narrative writing prompts! These digital prompts provide easy writing activities, collaboration, and public speaking practice, are great for daily writing or journaling, and more!

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What's included:

15 finish the story writing prompts!

1 directions slide

1 editable directions slide

1 editable finish the story template

Directions:

• Print and laminate OR project on the screen.
• Allow students to choose a prompt OR have one picked for each day.
• Once students respond to the prompt they can practice public speaking skills by presenting their stories to the class or to small groups.

Sample Slide:

Being the new kid in town, I took it upon myself to get acquainted with the neighbors. When I knocked on the door, I was greeted by a small army of elves who took me captive...

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Looking for fun get to know me Writing activities for the first day or week back to school? This hoody themed All About Me includes patches students can design and add to personalize their interests. Hoodies are all the rage among teens, and any teacher that presents an activity using them will receive immediate engagement and be crowned the "cool teacher." Use this activity year after year, as students get to know each other through their interests rather than completing a boring worksheet!

Guage writing skills by offering a POV writing activity that's actually fun! Students will write about any day in their life...from the point of view of their Hoodie!! You'll love reading the finished products.

Perfect for Back to School season to get your new batch of kiddos better acquainted with each other! Makes for a unique hallway bulletin board display as well, just in time for Open House!

This resource requires NO PREP - simply print, complete the short writing prompts, color, create and cut out patches and hang!

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This resource includes:

• Completed Hoodie Sample for Demonstration
• Printable Hoodie All About Me
• 84 Printable Color Patches
• 1 Blank sheet to create custom patches

**For personal and single classroom use only. If using with multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses at the discounted rate.**

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You may be interested in the Back to School Activity Bundle which features 25 printable activities that are just perfect for the first weeks of school. A cover is included if you would like to print it as a packet!

Included in the Resource:

• My Favorite Things Flower Craftivity -perfect for display
• All About Me
• Get to Know You Fortune Teller Craftivity
• Get to Know Me 3D cube activity
• Back to School Vibes - reveals secret message!!
• Class Bingo Get to Know Classmates edition
• Two Truths and a Lie
• School Rules Crossword Puzzle with solution
• This or That?
• Word Search - with 48 words
• Find the Classroom Maze - with solution
• DIY Word Search (use with names of students in your class!)
• Letter to Your New Teacher
• Letter to Your Future Self
• Message in a Bottle Writing
• School Memories Writing/Drawing
• Autobiography Writing
• Back to School Acrostic Poem
• Design a Hoodie
• Design a Book Cover
• Design a Hat and Sneaker Set
• Back to School Goal Setting
• Beginning of Year Vibes
• Setting Expectations
• Back to School Bucket List

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6-Page Article & Activity Sets - Includes 8 Sets!

Each set includes...

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► Crossword Puzzle

► Design Page

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This Pop Culture Bundle for Middle School will make your students WANT to work and stay on task as they read about high-interest trending topics among teens. Also available for High School and Upper Elementary School.

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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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This product emphasizes nouns. Examples of people, places, and things are provided in this packet along with pictures. Students are required to make up two simple or detailed sentences about each noun provided. Students can do this independently or with support.

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Students use a die to decide the format, topic, and rhetorical appeal that they will use for this persuasive writing assignment. This is meant to be a fun, amusing activity for students learning about rhetorical appeals. One sheet is colored for posting online, the other is in black and white for printing.

Check out my Author's Purpose Dice Roll Writing Activity, and my Character Reading Response Dice Roll Writing Activity as well!

Students roll the dice to unravel a magical and exciting tapestry of settings, protagonists, antagonists, conflicts, and Christmas-themed elements, igniting creativity and narrative fluency! Perfect for narrative writing units, centers, daily writing, public speaking practice, winter centers, Fun Friday, and more!

What's Included

• A PowerPoint with 1 unique board
• 1 editable Roll a Story Board
• A QR code on the storyboard that leads to digital dice (so no dice needed, just devices!)
• Vocabulary page
• Writing page

Story Elements

• Setting (examples: Santa’sHeadquarters, town where it is always Christmas, Elves on the Shelves protest rally)

• Protagonists (examples: reindeer with a fear of heights, snowman that came to life, a character who is turned into an elf)

• Conflict (examples: is hypnotized by, is kidnapped by, is bullied by)

• Antagonists (examples: Santa detective on a mission to find Santa, reindeer rights activist, Sentient full-size gingerbread house with attitude)

• Christmas Elements (examples: magical snow globe, curse where the entire town can’t stop dancing to Christmas music, snow machine that makes the world snow when pressed)

This product features an engaging activity that will fit in perfectly with your unit on Edgar Allan Poe or on Halloween!

Students get the chance to create the epitaph for the gravestone of one of the most revered authors in American literature. The activity encourages students to be thoughtful with their knowledge of Poe but also to be creative with their inscriptions. This can be done in or outside of class and also works as a great emergency substitute plan during the month of October. To be festive, I love to give this assignment on the anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's actual death day, October 7! No preparation needed!

Product Includes:

- Complete Assignment Directions

- Scoring Guide

- 3 Templates - 2 blank for use in class, 1 editable template for use on the computer

- 1 Teacher Model

In order for students to gain the most out of this assignment, It is recommended for use in conjunction with the Edgar Allan Poe Scavenger Hunt by Language Arts Excellence.

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This no-prep resource pack has fun, quick, winter-themed activities for middle school kids! Half page printables with winter, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Chinese New Year themes are ready with no prep...just print and go. Use as morning work, for early finishers, or just to add a bit of winter fun to your classroom or home! Why should little kids have all the seasonal and holiday fun? Word search, acrostic poems, winter bucket list, mazes, comic strips, finish the drawing, and more!

Included:

• 11 pages of half-page worksheets for 22 activities total
• Black and white versions of all color pages
• Answer keys

This resource, as well as Fall Activities for Older Kids, and Spring Activities for Older Kids are available in a money saving bundle, Seasonal Activities for Older Kids Bundle. Save 20% by purchasing the bundle!

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Teach themes and morals through this ANANSI [the spider] STORIES resource. Middle through 9th graders will students learn how to live with each other and learn about their world through these age-old stories. Students learn symbolism, self-reflection, and other vital lessons through their use of this unit. This Unit has 5 popular ANANSI Folk Tales, 15 Comprehension questions, Suggested Uses, 50 TASK CARDS, and 11 PROJECTS to help make your classroom be GREAT! Check 'em out!

This Resource includes:

1. 5 ANANSI TALES

2. LESSONS FROM ANANSI STORIES [TEACHER NOTES]

3. 11 Lesson plan activities/Projects

4. 50 TASK CARDS

5. 15 MULTIPLE CHOICE/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

6. YOUTUBE videos for each folktale to add multimodal parts to your lesson

FOLKTALES included:

1. ANANSI and the WISDOM POT

2. ANANSI and the TURTLE'S DINNER

3. ANANSI and the MAGIC ROCK

4. ANANSI and the EAR OF CORN

5. ANANSI and the TALKING MELON

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Do you want to make reviewing figurative language fun? Do you want your students engaged and motivated to learn? Then download this Oxymoron, Personification, Alliteration, Hyperbole Figurative Language Activity! Played individually or in teams, your students will be having so much fun they will forget they are learning!

Played like Bingo, students roll a die, find the corresponding instructions, and create their own sentences using the prompt provided The first student to complete a row or column wins the game! Virtual dice included! This activity can be played repeatedly as each game is unique. Laminate your gameboards and they can be used for years.

➟ Figurative Language covered in this activity: onomatopoeia, oxymoron, personification, alliteration, and hyperbole!

➟ This resource includes:

• Instructions
• Google docs digital/online gameboard (with a link to a digital single die roller on Youtube)
• Printable in-class game board (you will need an individual die for each group)
• ‘Answer Sheet’ for students to write their sentences
• Terms of Use

➟ Examples:

• Use onomatopoeia to describe an excited dog.
• Write an alliteration about the beach.
• Use hyperbole to describe someone’s looks.
• Use an oxymoron in a sentence about food.
• Use personification in a sentence about an animal.

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This is a fun, creative writing assignment you could give to your students during the month of October. Students will get to choose their own Halloween topic and then follow the instructions to write their own Cinquain.

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