Build solid creative writing skills with our extensive collection of printables, graphic organizers, and lessons plans. Encourage your students to demonstrate their creativity—and their writing skills—with our resources. You'll find poetry activities, short-story writing exercises, journal topics, printable worksheets, art projects, and more!
Bring Halloween into your classroom with this fill-in story. Students fill in the blanks of the Halloween story with their own nouns, adjectives, and ... read more
Bring Halloween into your classroom with this fill-in story. Students fill ... read more
Write creatively this Halloween with this fill-in story. Students fill in the blanks of the Halloween story with their own nouns, adjectives, and verb... read more
Write creatively this Halloween with this fill-in story. Students fill in t... read more
Write creatively this Halloween with this fill-in story. Students fill in the blanks of the Halloween story with their own nouns, adjectives, and verb... read more
Write creatively this Halloween with this fill-in story. Students fill in t... read more
This holiday-themed activity teaches teens what New Year's resolutions are and why they should make them. Students make a list of personal resolutions... read more
This holiday-themed activity teaches teens what New Year's resolutions are ... read more
Teach upper elementary and middle school students about New Year's resolutions. This holiday-themed activity explains what resolutions are and why the... read more
Teach upper elementary and middle school students about New Year's resoluti... read more
This activity introduces kids to New Year's resolutions. Students learn what a resolution is and why they should make one. Then, they make a resolutio... read more
This activity introduces kids to New Year's resolutions. Students learn wha... read more
Have kids create an art and writing book project based on The Day You Were Born by Debra Frasier. This project can be made as individual pages or post... read more
Have kids create an art and writing book project based on The Day You Were ... read more
This creative writing assignment challenges students to write from the perspective of an inanimate object. They will use their imagination and their f... read more
This creative writing assignment challenges students to write from the pers... read more
In this writing assignment, students use the 5 Ws and 1 H (who, what, when, where, why and how) to write about their day at the beach. Students can re... read more
In this writing assignment, students use the 5 Ws and 1 H (who, what, when,... read more
This teaching guide to Poptropica's 24 Carrot Island will help kids discover topics such as economics, the solar system, the human skeleton, proverbs,... read more
This teaching guide to Poptropica's 24 Carrot Island will help kids discove... read more
Our Hero travels to Africa in 1387 to visit the Mali Empire in Timbuktu. Have students imagine they are taking a trip to Africa tomorrow and staying a... read more
Our Hero travels to Africa in 1387 to visit the Mali Empire in Timbuktu. Ha... read more
This teaching guide to Poptropica's Time Tangled Island will help kids discover famous inventors, political figures, ancient empires, and intrepid exp... read more
This teaching guide to Poptropica's Time Tangled Island will help kids disc... read more
This guide to Poptropica's Mystery Train Island will introduce your students to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, a wide variety of notable train "passen... read more
This guide to Poptropica's Mystery Train Island will introduce your student... read more
This guide to Mythology Island will help kids discover Greek mythology as they explore Mount Olympus with Apollo, Athena, Hercules, Zeus, and the oth... read more
This guide to Mythology Island will help kids discover Greek mythology as ... read more
Build classroom community while creating your first classroom book as a Back-to-School icebreaker. Students will share an experience from their summer... read more
Build classroom community while creating your first classroom book as a Bac... read more
Encourage creative writing with this reading extension activity. Students will read a story, brainstorm what might happen next, and use their imaginat... read more
Encourage creative writing with this reading extension activity. Students w... read more
Encourage students to create an original story based on an existing text. After reading a selected story, students imagine how the story would be diff... read more
Encourage students to create an original story based on an existing text. A... read more
Practice narrative writing with this reading extension activity. Students will write an alternate ending to a story the class reads together. This act... read more
Practice narrative writing with this reading extension activity. Students w... read more
Choose one of Taylor Mali's poems to use in this poetry lesson plan. You will discuss how the poem changes in perceived meaning when in written versus... read more
Choose one of Taylor Mali's poems to use in this poetry lesson plan. You wi... read more
In this poetry lesson plan, introduce (or re-familiarize) your students with metaphors. Then, encourage them to get creative and write their own and s... read more
In this poetry lesson plan, introduce (or re-familiarize) your students wit... read more
Most poems are, on some level, the answer to a question that you might not have heard asked. In this poetry activity, have students pick a question fr... read more
Most poems are, on some level, the answer to a question that you might not ... read more
Use one or all of the prompts in this poetry writing lesson plan. Students will produce original creative phrases using their favorite prompts, which ... read more
Use one or all of the prompts in this poetry writing lesson plan. Students ... read more
In this creative writing printable, students imagine they've moved to a new state and write a letter to a friend about their new home. Use this writin... read more
In this creative writing printable, students imagine they've moved to a new... read more
Complete the dialogue to create a comic in the spirit of Splurch Academy for Disruptive Boys, a comic novel series by Julie Gardner Berry and Sally Ga... read more
Complete the dialogue to create a comic in the spirit of Splurch Academy fo... read more
