Creative Writing Assessment

Escape the Snow Globe: A Narrative Writing Adventure!

Spark your students' imaginations with this exciting narrative writing activity!

They have been trapped in a snow globe!

Why?

• Snow Globe Escape! (Writing Prompt): A captivating prompt that transports students to use their creativity to describe their snow globe surroundings, explain how they got trapped, and devise a plan to escape!
• Paragraph Power: A guide to writing strong paragraphs, including clear transitions and a variety of sentence structures. This helps students structure their narratives effectively.
• Snow Globe Design: A fun worksheet where students can personalize their snow globe adventure! They can illustrate the scene inside the globe.
• Bonus Pages: Extra lined writing pages are included to accommodate longer narratives and encourage students to fully develop their escape plans!

How to use it?

• Independent Writing Activity.
• Partner Up! Pair students to brainstorm ideas and share their escape plans with each other.
• Whole-Class Brainstorm: Have students share their snow globe ideas and escape strategies as a class, sparking creative thinking and storytelling.

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

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

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Why Choose This Lesson?

-Interactive Learning: This Google Slides lesson is designed to be interactive, keeping students engaged and actively participating in their learning journey.

-Primary Sources: Dive deep into history with authentic primary sources, giving students a firsthand look at the abolitionist movement through letters, speeches, and documents.

-Rich Imagery: Vivid images and illustrations complement the text, helping students visualize the historical context and grasp the significance of the abolitionists’ efforts.

- Thought-Provoking Questions: Stimulate critical thinking and classroom discussion with carefully crafted questions that challenge students to analyze, interpret, and reflect on the material.

What’s included:

- A fully editable Google Slides presentation packed with primary sources, images, and engaging questions to enhance students' understanding of the abolitionist movement.

- Easy-to-follow slides that guide students through the key figures, events, and impact of the abolitionists.

- Interactive activities and discussion prompts that encourage students to connect historical events to modern-day issues.

- Students could also answer the questions directly on the slides if you want to make it a digital assignment. This is a great overview of the Abolitionist movement and students will examine the following topics:

-Frederick Douglass

-Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin

_-_The Underground Railroad

-John Brown

-Harpers Ferry

At the end of the lesson, students will use acrostic poems to synthesize what they learned during their investigation.

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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.

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NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Engaging! Thought-provoking! This 10-page EDITABLE document will set your students up to write both creatively and critically about Fitzgerald's masterpiece. The three writing assignments promise to elicit thoughtful engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor.

Here's what you'll find inside:

• Creative Writing Assignment: Invite students to write in Fitzgerald’s virtuosic prose style while filling in a missing scene from the novel. What did Gatsby write in his letter to Daisy? What was said when Gatsby and Daisy finally reunited at Nick’s house? This assignment can be given mid-unit after students finish reading Chapter Six. (1 page)

• Analytical Writing Assignment: Challenge students to take their interpretations one step further by writing an analytical paper on Fitzgerald’s wonderfully complex novel. Let students choose from one of five profoundly thought-provoking sample topics — or invite them to develop an original topic of their own. Rubric included. (4 pages)

• Q3 Practice Essay: Designed for AP Lit teachers, this in-class essay assignment will enable students to practice the "Q3" essay from the AP Literature and Composition Exam. Included are three recent Q3 prompts that feature The Great Gatsby as one of the recommended works of literary merit. The assignment asks students to respond to one prompt by composing a well-written essay in 40 minutes. (5 pages)

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This assignment requires students to write a Eulogy in honor of Algernon in first person as Charlie Gordon! It includes a list of requirements, examples, and a rubric. The assignment is in a Google Doc, so it's ready to post on Google Classroom right away! Perfect for Distance Learning.

Kindergarten students will continue the journey of writing and reading with this APRIL Journal or Journal EIGHT. This is part of a future bundle that will include nine months. These writing journals were specifically created to spur a love of writing regardless of writing level. The complete set of journals will display a year of progress in learning!

Journal Writing Prompts Pages include:

• April Fools Day
• Spring-time
• First Month of Spring
• National Garden Month
• Earth Day
• Arbor Day
• National Poetry Month
• Easter
• April Flower Daisy
• April in School
• April Bingo

Learning Objectives:

• Become familiar with months of the Year
• Know what happens during the Month
• Grow to love reading and writing regardless
• of ability
• Social Emotional Learning
• Creativity

JOURNALS BY MONTH

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October Journal

November Journal

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April Journal

May Journal

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All About Me

My First Week Kindergarten

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Enhance your students' understanding of Labor Day with this engaging and age-appropriate Labor Day Reading Comprehension resource, designed specifically for 3rd to 5th graders. This activity includes a carefully crafted passage that introduces students to the history and significance of Labor Day, followed by a variety of comprehension questions. The questions range from multiple choice to short answers, ensuring a thorough assessment of your student's reading skills.

With this resource, students will practice reading comprehension, critical thinking, and writing as they explore key facts about Labor Day. The exercise also encourages students to reflect on their own understanding of the holiday, making the learning experience both meaningful and interactive.

Perfect for guided reading, independent work, or as a homework assignment, this resource includes a full answer key for easy grading. Save time on lesson planning while providing your students with a comprehensive understanding of this important holiday.

Here are the positive aspects of this exercise and why teachers will find it valuable:

• The exercise simplifies language and concepts, making it accessible and engaging for 3rd to 5th graders. This ensures that students can understand the material and stay motivated, which is crucial for effective learning.

• The combination of a passage, multiple-choice, and short-answer questions allows students to practice reading comprehension, critical thinking, and written expression. This well-rounded approach helps reinforce key skills across different areas of learning.

• Engagement and Reflection: By including a question that asks students to write about their knowledge and thoughts on Labor Day, the exercise encourages personal reflection. This can deepen their understanding of the holiday's significance and make the lesson more meaningful.

• The exercise is ready-made, saving teachers time in lesson planning. Its clear structure, complete with an answer key, allows for easy grading and ensures that teachers can quickly assess student understanding.

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Do you need an assessment template to assess your students' poetry writing skills? Then you should check out these Poetry Writing Assessment Templates! They are a great way to record your students' poetic writing skills through observations, teacher and student conferences and work samples! Includes a range of different templates to suit your teaching and assessing style!

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Empower your students' writing development with our Gen Z Writing Rubric! This innovative and engaging rubric uses a fun, modern scale to assess student writing across five levels: Basic, Cooked, Mid, Skibidi Rizz & Sigma. Designed for journal, opinion, and narrative writing, this rubric helps students understand key writing elements like structure, grammar, and creativity in a relatable way.

Product Highlights:

• 5-Level Assessment Scale: Students are assessed from Basic to Sigma, with each level representing growth in writing skills.
• Editable Template: Customize the rubric to fit your classroom needs or adjust it for different types of writing assignments.
• Clear Writing Criteria: The rubric breaks down essential writing components, such as capital letters, full stops, descriptive language, and rhetorical devices.
• Engaging Terminology: The rubric speaks Gen Z's language, making writing assessments more engaging and accessible for students.

Why This Rubric is Essential:

• Encourages Growth: Students can easily see their progress and understand areas for improvement, motivating them to advance through the levels.
• Promotes Creativity: The rubric highlights rhetorical devices like similes, metaphors, and alliteration, pushing students to develop more creative writing.
• Customizable for Different Genres: Whether you're assessing journal entries, opinion pieces, or narrative writing, this rubric can be tailored to meet the needs of any assignment.

Ideal For:

• Teachers looking for a modern, relatable writing rubric to engage students.
• Classrooms that value student growth and creativity in writing.
• Educators needing a clear and fun way to assess writing across various genres.

Help your students progress from Basic to Sigma with this fun and effective Gen Z Writing Rubric—perfect for encouraging creativity, clarity, and structured writing in your classroom!

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This rubric looks at 5 different areas when students are being assessed on writing a story. The areas that are reviewed on the rubric are as follows: the story outline relates with the graphic organizer, all parts of the story are written in sequential order, staying on task, grammar/punctuation/spelling, and working with others. This rubric scores the story writing assignment out of 15 possible points. The rating scale use is a 3, 2, 1, & 0.

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!

Self-reflection is so important for students of all ages and what better time to reflect on learning than at the end of the school year? With that in mind, I created this end of year reflection assignment that prompts students to consider all of the meaningful experiences they had all year in my class. My students really get into this assignment and I'm sure yours will too! I've included in this product a model of my assignment and a fully editable template for you - it will only take a few minutes to tweak it and make it your own. Your students will thank you for offering this differentiated assessment! I also included three exemplary student examples. ___________________________________________________________________________ Check out these related resources by Language Arts Excellence to finish your school year strong: ⭐ End of Year ELA Escape Room
⭐ End of Year ELA Escape Room - Pop Culture Edition ⭐ End of Year Mad Libs ⭐ We Didn't Start the Fire Activity ⭐ End of Year "Book Talk" Activity
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Writer's Workshop - First Twenty Days outline This gives you a twenty day introduction to writers' workshop in the middle grades. From going through the rules of the workshop, to editing vs. conferencing, to the different genre of writing. Everything is covered or introduced in this twenty day plan. Although this is intended for use when the school year begins, it can easily be used at any point throughout the year to teach different aspects that are covered. Updated: March 11, 2014 - Includes reasoning behind the placement of diagnostic writing during the first 20 days. Don't forget to check our my "revised" first twenty days of reading workshop for Junior and Intermediate grades: First Twenty Days of Reading Please don't forget to take a look at the other items I have available in my store!

Elevate Your Tolkien Unit Finale: Conclude the adventure of The Hobbit with this comprehensive final assessment pack! Tailored to middle and high school students, this resource offers everything you need to gauge student comprehension and creativity after the epic journey through Middle Earth.

This product provides you access to the Canva template!

✨ What's Included:

• Character Analysis Writing Prompt: Encourage in-depth reflection with a thought-provoking writing prompt and a structured graphic organizer.
• Character Comparison Writing Prompt: Foster critical thinking by prompting students to compare key characters, supported by a detailed graphic organizer.
• Rubric for Character Analysis: Simplify grading with a comprehensive rubric designed for character analysis assessments.
• Project-Based Learning Ideas: Fuel creativity with five engaging project ideas, connecting literature to real-world applications.
• Creative Writing Assessment: Unleash students' imagination with a captivating creative writing prompt and a corresponding rubric.

Features:

• Holistic Assessment: Cover various aspects of literary analysis, ensuring a well-rounded evaluation of students' understanding.
• Project-Based Learning: Enhance comprehension through creative projects, promoting a deeper connection to Tolkien's world.
• Versatile Application: Suitable for both individual and group assessments, accommodating diverse teaching styles.
• Seamless Integration: Aligns seamlessly with ELA and ESL curricula, offering a flexible addition to your teaching resources.

This is a NO PREP, print and go resource that is perfect for CVC writing practice. Students use the picture to write a sentence using short a CVC words.

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High Frequency words: I, a, like, see, can, the, we, go, to, am, in, my, she, he, here, is, put, big, get, look, find, little, want, have, do, down, black, brown,

Short A CVC words:

-ab: tab, gab, dab, lab, cab

-ad: bad, dad, mad, pad, sad

-ag: bag, rag, tag, wag

-am: ham, jam, ram, yam

-an: can, fan, man, pan, ran, van

-ap: cap, map, nap, tap

-at: bat, cat, hat, mat, pat, sat

-ax: wax

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Directions: Have students practice using there best, everyday, and sloppy handwriting. I explain that when we write final reports or assignments we use our very best handwriting. I explain that everyday handwriting is used on most assignments and is legible. We do not use sloppy writing at school as it is not legible and hard to read.

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This kindergarten writing prompt resource comes with 35 writing prompts for your littles AND it aligns with the Common Core State Standards! It keeps a consistent layout throughout so students become comfortable completing these independently. Each page comes with dotted lines for easy writing. It also comes with a large square for students to draw a picture. Lastly, the prompt is printed right onto the page. These prompts are perfect for morning work, ELA, small group centers, or even homework! With 35 prompts to choose from, you and your students will love the variety!

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This unit will guide students through reading and analyzing "The Outsiders." Students will explore themes of class conflict, friendship, and identity while developing their comprehension and critical thinking skills. The unit will include formative assessments, discussions, and creative assignments.

• Pre Reading Activity
• Compare and Contrast (characters & self)
• Character Map
• Anatomy of a Greaser/Soc
• Choice Boards x2
• Jigsaw
• Stations
• Journal/Writing Prompts
• Slides Project
• Debate
• Essay Revision

Veterans Day Reading Comprehension and Writing Activities

Looking for an engaging way to teach students about Veterans Day? This resource is perfect for building knowledge and developing literacy skills!

Veterans Day Reading Comprehension and Writing Activities includes:

• Informative 7 reading passages about Veterans Day and each branch of the U.S. military (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Space Force)
• Comprehension questions to enhance understanding
• Writing prompts encouraging students to reflect on the importance of honoring veterans
• Answer key for all activities

This product is ideal for classroom discussions, independent practice, or group work. Help your students appreciate the bravery and dedication of our veterans while strengthening their reading and writing skills!

Suitable for first to third Graders, these activities are a meaningful addition to your Veterans Day lessons.

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Left Side Process Essential Question: What types of communication techniques and methods are used in the media and political communication? How can these techniques impact public opinion? Directions: Create an advertisement poster that includes the following elements. Be sure to label each element in your poster. SS.7.C.2.11: Analyze media and political communications (bias, symbolism, propaganda). Benchmark Clarifications: Students will use scenarios to identify bias, symbolism, and propaganda. Students will evaluate how bias, symbolism, and propaganda can impact public opinion.