3rd Grade Creative Writing Centers

Introducing the May Day Spring Bundle!

This bundle includes 7 beautifully designed May Day themed writing templates, a fun May Day basket paper craft, a lovely May Day floral crown craft, and an engaging May Day themed word search.

These resources are perfect for any lower elementary classroom celebrating May Day and the arrival of spring. With this bundle, your students will have the opportunity to express their creativity, practice their writing skills, and have fun with hands-on activities.

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This set of 180 picture writing prompts inspires daily creativity and excitement in your students. These quick writes build writing skills through describing and inferring 180 engaging photos. Perfect for daily journaling, morning meeting activities, literacy centers, morning work and more! Encourage descriptive storytelling, expand vocabulary and boost critical thinking as students create quick narratives from diverse images all year long!

What's Included:

• 180 Pictures (1 for each school day) with "who? what? where? when? why?" Guiding Questions.

Uses:

• morning writing
• journaling
• creative writing class
• ELA
• literacy centers
• small group
• whole group
• homework writing assignments
• collaborative writing
• quick writing prompts
• paragraph writing practice
• extensions for GT, or accelerated learners
• teaching writing skills (Leads, paragraphs, grammar, editing)
• substitute activities
• and much more!

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*Note this product may be used in brick an mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool.

The "Crafts Bundle" is a delightful collection of projects designed to celebrate and honor various occasions throughout the year. This versatile bundle offers creative opportunities for Father's Day, Mother's Day, May Day, the fall season, and the excitement of going back to school. Here's a closer look at what you can expect from this diverse assortment:

Father's Day crafts

Mother's Day Basket

May Day basket

Fall Autumn Wreath

Back To School Wreath

All About Me Crayon Craft: Encourage self-expression and creativity with an "All About Me" crayon craft. This project is perfect for children to explore their personalities, interests, and artistic abilities through crayon art.

With this crafts bundle, you have the opportunity to create meaningful, personalized items that can be cherished and enjoyed throughout the year. Whether you're expressing your love and gratitude on special occasions, embracing the changing seasons, or inspiring creativity in your family, this collection of projects has something for everyone. Get ready to unleash your inner artist and make memories that will last a lifetime with the "Crafts Bundle."

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Be sure to Check out this Back To School product:

• All about me Poster, Back to School Activities
• Back to School Activities - Back to school Symmetry Drawing Worksheet
• Back to school craftivity 2nd grade, First grade - Back to school Wreath
• Meet the Teacher-Getting to know you-editable-presentation- Back to School Free
• All About Me Crayon - Back to School Kindergarten Craft First Day Of School

Using narrative writing prompts in the classroom can be a powerful way to encourage creativity, enhance writing skills, and foster storytelling abilities in students. This resource includes 60 narrative writing prompts designed specifically to help students develop their writing with a clear beginning, middle, and end.

Key Benefits:

• Promotes Creativity: These prompts allow students to stretch their imagination. From writing about pirates looking for new jobs to imagining themselves as famous inventors, the prompts encourage students to think outside the box and create unique stories.
• Builds Writing Fluency: By regularly using these prompts, students will naturally build their writing fluency. Writing consistently helps them become more comfortable expressing their thoughts in written form.
• Supports the Writing Process: Each prompt includes a built-in checklist that guides students through the essentials of good writing, such as ensuring complete sentences, punctuation, capitalization, and legibility.
• Flexible Usage: Teachers can use the prompts for a variety of purposes. They are perfect for morning warm-ups, writing centers, bell-ringer activities, or weekly journal assignments. Additionally, the prompts are useful for writing workshops, where students can work through the writing process of drafting, revising, and editing.
• Encourages Organization: The prompts are designed to help students focus on organizing their thoughts clearly, which strengthens their ability to structure a story with a beginning, middle, and end. This can also support their understanding of narrative flow.

Classroom Applications:

• Daily or weekly writing exercises.
• Independent creative writing projects.
• Writing workshops to practice brainstorming, drafting, revising, and publishing.
• Can also be used for assessments of writing skills.

This resource is a valuable addition to any teacher's toolkit, providing engaging writing opportunities that will help students build essential writing skills while having fun with storytelling.

Make getting your writing station in your literacy centers set up quick and easy with these fun and engaging November writing prompts! This set includes 20 different Thanksgiving, Veterans Day, and Election Day writing prompts for students to choose from in their writing center. Quick and easy setup, plus clear student directions make these writing prompts perfect for independent work and substitute days, too!

Lead your students to discover their writing ability by practicing it independently during center time. Students will love getting to choose which prompt they wish to respond to!

Here's what you'll get:

• 20 different writing prompts
• 3 styles of writing paper
• word bank

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the student pages, gather pencils, and you're ready for a fun and engaging writing center!

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Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.

Thanksgiving Activities Bundle – Digital and Printable Resources for the holiday.

Get your classroom ready for a memorable Thanksgiving with our Thanksgiving Activities Bundle—a comprehensive collection of digital, engaging, creative, and educational resources designed to make your holiday lessons both fun and meaningful. This bundle includes a mix of digital and printable activities that will keep your students entertained and learning throughout the Thanksgiving season!

What's Included:

1. Digital Math Activity in Google Slides
   A fun, interactive math activity that helps students practice essential math skills while celebrating the holiday. With Thanksgiving-themed problems and engaging visuals, this digital activity is perfect for reviewing arrays, multiplication, and repeated addition.
2. Digital Writing Activity in Google Slides
   Foster creativity and improve writing skills with a Thanksgiving-themed digital writing activity. Students will plan and write what they’re thankful for in a fun and engaging way.  In addition, they will create their own Thanksgiving table—all on Google Slides, making it easy to share and collaborate!
3. Printable Thanksgiving Writing & Turkey Craft
   Combine writing and crafting with this printable activity that encourages students to reflect on what they’re thankful for. Students write about what they appreciate most, then create a colorful turkey craft to accompany their writing. This hands-on activity is a great way to celebrate the season while practicing writing and fine motor skills.
4. Printable Thanksgiving Mini-Coloring Books
   These charming, holiday-themed mini-coloring books are filled with festive illustrations of turkeys, pumpkins, autumn leaves, and more. Great for classroom downtime or as a creative craft, the books offer a quiet, engaging activity.

Why You’ll Love This Bundle:

• Time-Saving & Ready to Use: No need to spend hours searching for individual activities—everything is ready to go! Simply print, share, and enjoy a stress-free holiday lesson plan.
• All-in-One Holiday Resource: Everything you need for a fun-filled, educational Thanksgiving celebration in one easy-to-use bundle.
• Mix of Digital & Printable Activities: This versatile set includes both digital activities for interactive learning (perfect for virtual or in-person classrooms) and printable crafts and coloring books for hands-on, creative play.

The Curious Why Activities w/ Digital Option:

This literature unit for The Curious Why by Angela DiTerlizzi includes a bulletin board, writing activities, comprehension and reflection questions (in task cards and list formats), and much more!

This literature unit for The Curious Why contains the following:

• Teacher Tips
• Discussion Questions Task Cards (as well as in list form)
• Optional Answer Sheets
• Discussion Questions Sample Answers
• They Curious Why: Find the Answers (with sample answer keys)
• The Curious Why: I Want to Learn More
• My Curious Why Banners (3 options available)
• Bulletin Board Letters "MY CURIOUS WHY"
• My Curious Why Report
• Digital Version Instructions and link for Google Slides

I hope that this product will help your students dig into their own curiosities (with a little help from you and this amazing picture book). Enjoy!

Note: Picture books are generally most appropriate for primary grades, but the concepts presented in The Curious Why are appropriate for any age, so this unit is designed to reach students a bit older than the average picture book audience.

You may also be interested in the following picture book literature units:

• MAYBE By Kobi Yamada

• TRYING By Kobi Yamada

• THE CANDY DISH by Kobi Yamada

• KOBI YAMADA Maybe, Trying, and The Candy Dish LITERATURE UNIT BUNDLE

• WHAT DO YOU DO WITH AN IDEA? By Kobi Yamada

• WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A PROBLEM? By Kobi Yamada

• WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A CHANCE? By Kobi Yamada

• KOBI YAMADA "WHAT DO YOU DO..." LITERATURE UNIT BUNDLE

NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.

Here are the individual links to each Kobi Yamada Literature Unit, as well as the bundled product, which can save you money.

• WHAT DO YOU DO WITH AN IDEA? By Kobi Yamada
• WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A PROBLEM? By Kobi Yamada
• WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A CHANCE? By Kobi Yamada
• KOBI YAMADA LITERATURE UNIT BUNDLE

A perfect book for remembering September 11. This is a 26 page book companion packet for THE MAN WHO WALKED BETWEEN TWO TOWERS by Mordicai Gerstein.

Tailored for Grades ONE, TWO, and THREE students, this resource is an excellent introduction to comprehension strategies. Students are required to engage with the text by retrieving information, inferring, using their prior knowledge and evaluating.

The activities and worksheets in this pack are highly engaging and cover a wide range of comprehension strategies, book responses and writing opportunities.

Activities include a differentiated variety of:

• Prediction activities
• Character responses
• Story events
• Sequencing
• Vocabulary
• Making Connections
• Comprehension, including inference questions
• Punctuation activities
• Writing responses

Grab this end-of-year bundle to wrap up the school year with your students and get them excited for summer! This bundle includes a printable memory book, fillable awards, crowns and fun summer-themed gift tags. Let's make those final days unforgettable!

✨ Save 30% with this bundle! ✨

What's Included

Summer Treat Gift Tags

Fillable Student Awards

Memory Book

Crowns

Summer Treat Gift Tags

10 Gift Tags Included:

• It's O'FISHALLY summer!
• You were one SMART COOKIE this school year!
• I DONUT want to say goodbye to you!
• You MINT so much to me this school year!
• You have BLOWN me away this school year!
• Stay super SHARP this summer!
• You will always have a PIECE of my heart!
• Have a super SWEET summer!
• DIG into a good book this summer!
• CHIP CHIP hurray it's summer time!

Fillable Student Awards

50 Awards Included:

Amazing Artist

Math Wizard

Worker Bee

Super Reader

Tech Expert

Observant Scientist

All-Star Athlete

Classroom Leader

Wonderful Writer

STEM Genius

Class Clown

Science Star

Aspiring Nurse

Social Butterfly

Fabulous Friend

Earth Hugger

Future Teacher

Smart Cookie

Future Actor

Future Actress

Team Player

Ray of Sunshine

Creative Writer

Bright Thinker

S. Studies Buff

Safety Patrol

Eager Explorer

Kindness Queen

Kindness King

Coolest Kid

Curious Cupcake

Leaps & Bounds

Star Speller

Lunchroom Leader

Animal Lover

Handy Helper

Word Shark

Most Improved

Recess Buddy

Goal Getter

Budding Author

Hard Worker

Creative Kid

Happy Camper

Marvelous Mathematician

Organization Guru

Growth Mindset

Attentive Listener

Never Giver Upper

Awesome Attitude

End of Year Memory Book

15 Pages Included:

• cover page for first, second, third and fourth grades

• about me

• about my teacher

• all about my friends

• my school day

• favorite memories

• brag sheet

• goal setting

• this or that school memories

• letter to my future teacher

• find someone who "my classmates"

• favorite books

• autographs page

• a note from my teacher

• my symbols

Crowns

What's Included:

5 black & white crowns with writing prompts

3 extra extension bands students can also color

Prompts Included:

This summer I will...

My favorite memory this school year was...

This year I learned...

Next school year, I am most excited for...

This summer I will...

More End of The Year Resources...

Roll & Read Phonics

Roll & Race Math

100's Chart Mystery Picture

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool.

Make getting your writing station in your literacy centers set up quick and easy with these fun and engaging December writing prompts! This set includes 20 different Christmas and Winter themed writing prompts for students to choose from in their writing center. Quick and easy setup, plus clear student directions make these writing prompts perfect for independent work and substitute days, too!

Lead your students to discover their writing ability by practicing it independently during center time. Students will love getting to choose which prompt they wish to respond to!

Here's what you'll get:

• 20 different writing prompts
• 3 styles of writing paper
• word bank

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the student pages, gather pencils, and you're ready for a fun and engaging writing center!

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Copyright © That One Cheerful Classroom.

Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.

Daily Journal Prompts Morning Work BUNDLE:

This creative journal writing multi-level BUNDLE contains 84 thought-provoking journal prompts and templates and one blank prompt at the end of the packet for 2nd-8th graders.

You can make an entire writing journal from the pages in this packet or pick and choose individual writing prompts that can meet the needs of your students.

Handwriting lines encourage the neat composition of handwriting. A small space for an illustration or picture is also included with each printable prompt for the lower-grade version.

Your students will love these original prompts because they incorporate high-interest topics.

You will find:

• Teacher Notes
• 42 Writing Prompts for 2nd-4th grade
• 42 Writing Prompts for 5th-8th grade
• Optional Back Side
• Blank Templates to Create Your Own Prompts
• Printable and Digital Versions of Each Prompt (Google Slides)

NOTE: THESE FILES INCLUDE A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

These products include a digital option (as well as the no-prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.

Do your students say they don't know what to write about? Well NO MORE.

This is a pack of 173 Personal Narrative WRITING PROMPTS. Your students will soon learn that they all have a story to tell, and that usually the simplest, everyday stories are the best ones!

Each prompt comes with a planning space, a space for vocabulary and in some cases a word bank. Perfect for teachers and subs.

THIS IS A GROWING PACKET. Keep an eye out on your purchases page for new prompts added to the resource MONTHLY at no extra cost!

Make getting your writing station in your literacy centers set up quick and easy with these fun and engaging November writing prompts! This set includes 20 different Thanksgiving, Veterans Day, and Election Day writing prompts for students to choose from in their writing center. Quick and easy setup, plus clear student directions make these writing prompts perfect for independent work and substitute days, too!

Lead your students to discover their writing ability by practicing it independently during center time. Students will love getting to choose which prompt they wish to respond to!

Here's what you'll get:

• 20 different writing prompts
• 3 styles of writing paper
• word bank

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the student pages, gather pencils, and you're ready for a fun and engaging writing center!

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Copyright © That One Cheerful Classroom.

Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.

No Prep Printable Daily Journal Writing Prompts:

This creative journal packet contains 42 thought-provoking journal prompts and templates and one blank prompt at the end of the packet for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade.

You can make an entire writing journal from the pages in this packet or pick and choose individual writing prompts that can meet the needs of your own students. Handwriting lines encourage neat composition of handwriting. A small space for an illustration or picture is also included with each printable prompt.

NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.

Do you need Digital Journal Prompts for 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade? Check here:

• Digital Journal Prompts for 5th-8th Grade

You may also be interested in these Language Arts products:

• TASK CARD PRODUCTS
• GRAMMAR PRODUCTS
• LITERATURE UNITS
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE PRODUCTS
• CHARACTER TRAITS PRODUCTS

Make getting your writing station in your literacy centers set up quick and easy with these fun and engaging December writing prompts! This set includes 20 different Christmas and Winter themed writing prompts for students to choose from in their writing center. Quick and easy setup, plus clear student directions make these writing prompts perfect for independent work and substitute days, too!

Lead your students to discover their writing ability by practicing it independently during center time. Students will love getting to choose which prompt they wish to respond to!

Here's what you'll get:

• 20 different writing prompts
• 3 styles of writing paper
• word bank

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the student pages, gather pencils, and you're ready for a fun and engaging writing center!

___________________________________

Copyright © That One Cheerful Classroom.

Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.

What Do You Do With an Idea? by Kobi Yamada Activities w/ Digital Option:

This literature unit for What Do You Do With an Idea? focuses more on the concepts presented in the story and less on the content (although there are comprehension questions included in list form as well as task card form... maybe you need both of them).

In addition to the task cards and printables, you will also find a craftivity and growth mindset reflection page. Please look at the preview for What Do You Do With an Idea? prior to purchasing.

My hope is that this product will help your students discover their own magnificence (with a little help from you and this amazing picture book). Enjoy!

Note: Picture books are generally most appropriate for primary grades, but the concepts presented in 'What Do You Do With an Idea?' are appropriate for any age, so this unit is designed to reach students a bit older than the average picture book audience.

Also, be sure to check out the new book by Kobi Yamada called Maybe and another one called Trying. You won't be disappointed... they are PERFECT for growth mindset instruction!

Here are the individual links to the other Kobi Yamada Literature Units, as well as the bundled products, which can save you money.

• MAYBE By Kobi Yamada

• TRYING By Kobi Yamada

• THE CANDY DISH by Kobi Yamada

• KOBI YAMADA Maybe, Trying, and The Candy Dish LITERATURE UNIT BUNDLE

• WHAT DO YOU DO WITH AN IDEA? By Kobi Yamada

• WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A PROBLEM? By Kobi Yamada

• WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A CHANCE? By Kobi Yamada

• KOBI YAMADA "WHAT DO YOU DO..." LITERATURE UNIT BUNDLE

NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.

Here are the individual links to each Kobi Yamada Literature Unit, as well as the bundled product, which can save you money.

• WHAT DO YOU DO WITH AN IDEA? By Kobi Yamada
• WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A PROBLEM? By Kobi Yamada
• WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A CHANCE? By Kobi Yamada
• KOBI YAMADA LITERATURE UNIT BUNDLE

Make getting your writing station in your literacy centers set up quick and easy with these fun and engaging October writing prompts! This set includes 20 different Halloween writing prompts for students to choose from in their writing center. Quick and easy setup, plus clear student directions make these writing prompts perfect for independent work and substitute days, too!

Lead your students to discover their writing ability by practicing it independently during center time. Students will love getting to choose which prompt they wish to respond to!

Here's what you'll get:

• 20 different writing prompts
• 3 styles of writing paper
• word bank

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the student pages, gather pencils, and you're ready for a fun and engaging writing center!

___________________________________

Copyright © That One Cheerful Classroom.

Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.