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Writing Prompts: Pourquoi Prompts (upper elem)

Six creative prompts for writing "just so" stories. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3
Writing Prompt: Earth Day (elementary)

"Write about ways you can help." Lined paper with an Earth Day illustration at the top and a writing prompt.
Journal: Camp (elem/upper elem)

Print these journal pages and bind them. This makes a cute journal to take to camp. Quick and easy.
Writing Prompt: Dad

"My dad is... " Short Dad-themed writing prompts with the word "Dad" repeated in color in the surrounding border.
Writing Prompt: How Does Your Family Cook Turkey (upper elem)

Write the directions for cooking a turkey.
Writing Prompt: Emotion - Sad (primary)

"One time I was sad because..."
Writing Prompt: I Wish... (elem)

Wide-lined paper with a star at the top and the words I WISH.
Writing Prompt: My wish for peace (elem/upper elem)

Lined paper with the prompt, "My Wish for Peace"
Shapebook: Rocket (elementary)

[member-created using abctools] Trace and cut out. This rocket-shaped shapebook has a prompt for students to answer about "If I Lived on the Moon."
Booklet: My Homeschool Memory Book (elementary)

12 half pages for students to fill in simple prompts and draw or attach pictures as illustrations for their favorite memories, etc., with a homeschool focus.
Science: The Water Cycle

Use this worksheet to write and illustrate the water cycle.
Writing: Basic Research for Flying Invertebrates (upper/middle/high)

This assignment develops basic research skills that provide background information for future writing or reports. This activity helps students learn about flying insects and bugs. One of many focused and fun creative writing offerings based on the Invertebrates of the Animal Kingdom PowerPoint presentation found in the Living on Planet Earth Series.
Writing: Basic Inquiry for Flying Mammals (upper/middle/high)

Satisfy your curiosity and write your own ideas about an assigned topic. This activity helps students learn about a flying mammal of their choice. One of many focused and fun creative writing offerings based on the Mammals of the Animal Kingdom PowerPoint presentation found in the Living on Planet Earth Series.
Writing: Promotional Flyer Describing Plant Fiber Textiles (middle/high)

Students create a single-paged sales and informational flyer describing the qualities of a clothing product made from plant fibers. One of a series of focused writing activities based on abcteach's Plant Kingdom PowerPoint presentations, in the Living on Planet Earth Series.
Writing: Define the Concept of Plant Defenses (middle/high)

In this paragraph and essay writing assignment students use their own ideas to define the abstract term defense in relation to plant survival strategies. One of many focused writing activities based on abcteach's Plant Kingdom PowerPoint presentations in the Living on Planet Earth Series.
Writing: Explain the Process - Banana Fiber Products are Made (middle/high)

In this writing activity students research and explain how banana fibers are used to create a variety of products. One of many focused writing activities based on abcteach's Plant Kingdom PowerPoint presentations in the Living on Planet Earth Series.
Writing: Explain the Process of Paper Making (middle/high)

Writing and following directions are important skills to have when putting something together, repeating an experiment, or learning new techniques. This activity helps students describe how paper products are made from any number of plants and recycled plant products. One of many focused and fun creative writing offerings based on the Plant Kingdom PowerPoint presentations found in the Living on Planet Earth Series.
Writing Prompt: Golf (elementary)

Colorful writing prompt with a golf theme. Use vocabulary words to build sentences about golf.
Summer Writing - End of Year Reflections (k-2)

This is a fun and productive 7 page end-of-the-year project. Students will reflect, draw, and write about their school year memories. Includes autograph and picture pages.
Writing Prompts: Father's Day Booklet

10 different sentence starters about Dad. Would make a great gift for Father's Day. Coloring pages included.
Writing Prompt: Mother's Day - Letter to Mom

This set has three versions to fit your classroom needs. Mother's Day theme with no lines, standard lines, and three-ruled lines.
Writing Prompts: 18 Creative Prompts (elem)

Eighteen writing prompts for younger students, with lines for writing. Includes teaching suggestions.
Writing Prompt: Writing Exercises (upper elementary)

Eight pages of writing prompts and exercises including "how to write a hook," and "time-sequence transition words".
Writing Prompts: Variety (elem)

Five writing prompts. Includes illustrations, lined paper and suggestions for teachers. Seven pages in all.
Writing Prompts: Christmas (upper elem/ middle)

Five narrative prompts and five expository prompts, all with a Christmas theme.
Shapebook: Thanksgiving - Turkey

"T is for turkey..." Trace and cut out. This turkey-shaped shapebook has five pages of short turkey-related prompts.
Think and Write: Pumpkins (elem/upper elem)

Pumpkins in transformation, pumpkins in space, pumpkins in advertising. Fantastic pumpkin-themed creative thinking and writing work for elementary/upper elementary students.
Writing Prompts: All About Me!

"All About Me" This free twelve-page unit helps students express their interests and goals.
Writing Prompt: Friends (elem/upper elem)

"Write about a friend of yours." Lined paper with an illustration of friends and a prompt to write about a friend.
Activities: Holidays

General activities to use with any holiday.
Writing Prompt: Halloween (elementary)

Two Halloween-themed writing prompts, about trick-or-treating and jack-o'-lanterns.
Border Paper: Fall Leaves (elementary)

Lined paper with illustrations of leaves in the surrounding border.
Writing Prompt: Winter (elementary)

"Winter..." ten pages of delightful winter-related writing prompts and writing exercises.
Writing Prompt: Winter Metaphors (primary/elem)

Winter is ___." Use this paper, with snowmen in the surrounding border, to write a winter poem.
Writing Paper: Groundhog Day

"Describe what the weather is like where you live." Lined paper with writing prompt and cute illustration of a groundhog.
Writing Prompt: Nature Similes (elem/upper elem)

Briefly explains similes and then encourages students to write and illustrate their own.
Story Planner: Country

Use this form to plan a story that takes place in the country you are studying.
Writing Prompt: Pond Theme (elem/upper elem)

Includes: Danny the Dragonfly, Duck Travels, Marty the Butterfly, Friends at the Pond (Descriptive Writing), Life on a Lily Pad and Swan Story. Six pages of lined paper with pond-story writing prompts and cute illustrations at the top.
Writing Prompt: Spring (elementary)

Three pages of writing prompts and other activities related to writing and poetry, with a spring theme.
Writing Paper: Earth Day (upper elementary)

Two pages of lined paper with illustrations of recycling and the earth in the left-hand border, and at the top, respectively. Use for reports,poem, or stories. Great for final drafts.

Writing Prompts: Pourquoi Prompts (upper elem)

Writing Prompt: Earth Day (elementary)

Journal: Camp (elem/upper elem)

Writing Prompt: Dad

Writing Prompt: How Does Your Family Cook Turkey (upper elem)

Writing Prompt: Emotion - Sad (primary)

Writing Prompt: I Wish... (elem)

Writing Prompt: My wish for peace (elem/upper elem)

Shapebook: Rocket (elementary)

Booklet: My Homeschool Memory Book (elementary)

Science: The Water Cycle

Writing: Basic Research for Flying Invertebrates (upper/middle/high)

Writing: Basic Inquiry for Flying Mammals (upper/middle/high)

Writing: Promotional Flyer Describing Plant Fiber Textiles (middle/high)

Writing: Define the Concept of Plant Defenses (middle/high)

Writing: Explain the Process - Banana Fiber Products are Made (middle/high)

Writing: Explain the Process of Paper Making (middle/high)

Writing Prompt: Golf (elementary)

Summer Writing - End of Year Reflections (k-2)

Writing Prompts: Father's Day Booklet

Writing Prompt: Mother's Day - Letter to Mom

Writing Prompts: 18 Creative Prompts (elem)

Writing Prompt: Writing Exercises (upper elementary)

Writing Prompts: Variety (elem)

Writing Prompts: Christmas (upper elem/ middle)

Shapebook: Thanksgiving - Turkey

Think and Write: Pumpkins (elem/upper elem)

Writing Prompts: All About Me!

Writing Prompt: Friends (elem/upper elem)

Activities: Holidays

Writing Prompt: Halloween (elementary)

Border Paper: Fall Leaves (elementary)

Writing Prompt: Winter (elementary)

Writing Prompt: Winter Metaphors (primary/elem)

Writing Paper: Groundhog Day

Writing Prompt: Nature Similes (elem/upper elem)

Story Planner: Country

Writing Prompt: Pond Theme (elem/upper elem)

Writing Prompt: Spring (elementary)

Writing Paper: Earth Day (upper elementary)

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