5th Grade Creative Writing Google Apps

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Spark creativity in your students with these exciting picture prompts! Each prompt features an imaginative scene, two guiding questions, and two sentence starters to inspire descriptive and creative writing. Perfect for writing centers, assignments, or independent practice, this resource will engage students and make writing fun. Easy to use and ready to print, it’s a must-have for any upper elementary classroom!

Included:

- 30 Black and White Printables

- 30 Color Printables

- Options to Project 30 Color Printables on a Screen

- Each Page Includes: 

• A Picture Prompt
• 2 Guiding Questions to Inspire Creativity
• 2 Optional Story Starters

Inspire reluctant writers with no-prep, digital visual photo writing prompts set to music. You'll get 30 photos prompts, each one set to music, that act as story starters for creative writing projects. You'll also get printable AND editable graphic organizers for both Google Docs and Google Slides, which makes differentiating and supporting reluctant or struggling writers easy. If you're looking for easy, no-prep digitalwriting prompts that will stimulate the senses, this resource is ideal. Can be used throughout the year, year after year.

Use as a Guided Whole Class Lesson. Using this resource is really easy. Simply select a slide to display on your screen, interactive TV, or smartboard for your students in present mode. Then turn up the volume as the embedded music starts to play (starts automatically), and sit back and watch as the creative juices start flowing. The visual and auditory stimuli will help students quickly generate a word bank full of ideas, which is perfect for creative writing. Use the slides to start a conversation, brainstorm ideas for characters, settings, and conflicts, generate a word bank, or inspire an entire week-long writing project. Use as a low-stakes quick write activity or a longer-term writing activity.

Here's what you'll get . . .

• 30 different digital photo prompts for teachers on Google Slides
• Unique song or sound effect for each photo prompt to set the tone (music starts automatically on every slide)
• Teacher’s Guide with lesson ideas
• Prompts and Differentiation Ideas Teacher Guide for each of the 3 resources
• Student Google Slideshow that includes each of the photos and brainstorming organizer
• Individual Writing Prompt Google docs, each with a photo and graphic brainstorming organizer (does not include the sound effects or songs on the docs)
• 2 Graphic Organizers to generate and capture story ideas

Differentiating for student needs is easy. Students can brainstorm ideas via speech to text or typing directly onto a Google Slide or Google Doc. Simply push out the doc or slide out through Google Classroom and be sure to give each student their own digital copy. OR give students the printable document to handwrite their ideas. Use the Prompts and Differentiation Ideas Teacher guide to further support struggling writers by providing kids with a completed word bank, questions to answer, and story ideas.

In my own 5th-grade classroom, I like to have my students silently brainstorm ideas before they meet up with partners to build a story. Sometimes we use the photo and accompanying soundtrack as a quick-write while other times we work our way through the entire writing process. Often, I’ll use my interactive TV to record student ideas and capture a word bank directly on the slide before sending the class to their seats to further develop their ideas. Once, during an observation, the recess bell rang and not a single student noticed because they were so wrapped up in their writing. I'd call that a win!

Teachers love this resource because it's so easy to use and doesn't require any prep time or complicated steps. Students love the music and fun photos that really help set the mood, making writing so much easier.

Had fun, but want more resources like this one?

Writing Prompt Photos With Audio Soundtrack: Google Slides Bundle

I'd love to hear how you use this resource in your classroom! Feel free to email me at iteachiwrite@yahoo.com with any questions or suggestions you may have. And don't forget to rate this product in order to earn TeachShare Credits for future purchases!

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Are you looking to make reviewing figurative language fun? Do you want your students to be engaged and motivated to learn? Then download this BUNDLE Similes Onomatopoeia and Alliteration a Figurative Language Activity! Well suited for the Language Arts or ELL classroom, your students will be having so much fun they will forget they are learning!

Students roll a die and find the corresponding instructions to create their own sentences using figurative language! The first one to complete a row or column wins the game! Can be played virtually or in-class - 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, alliteration, similes, and metaphors.

✔ Each 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)
• 27 unique questions (and 3 “Take A Break” spots)
• ‘Answer Sheet’ for students to write their sentences
• Terms of Use

✔Examples:

• Write a simile using a color
• Write a metaphor about the weather
• Finish this metaphor: “Today, school was….”
• Finish this simile: “The test was…..”

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SIMILES Choice Board, Student Checklist, Rubric, 48 Similes w/ definitions

METAPHORS Choice Board, Checklist, Rubric, Metaphors w definition

Homophones Choice Board 

Digital Grammar Practice - ALL ABOUT ANIMALS - Walruses

Digital Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Practice - ALL ABOUT ANIMALS - Gorillas

Grammar:

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Are you looking to make reviewing similes and metaphors fun? Do your students struggle to create descriptive figurative language? Then download this no prep Onomatopoeia, Oxymoron, Similes and MORE Activity BUNDLE!

Kids will be engaged and motivated to play this individual or team-building dice game. Well suited for the Language Arts or ELL classroom, your students will be having so much fun they will forget they are learning!

In this no prep activity, students roll a die find the corresponding instructions, and create their own sentences using onomatopoeia, oxymorons, personification, alliteration, hyperbole, similes, or metaphors! The first one to complete a row or column wins the game! Virtual dice included!

**You are receiving 3 different games but they can be played over and over again as each roll of the die provides students with new sentences to write! This truly is all you need to keep your students engaged and motivated to practice creating their own sentences using figurative language.

✔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)
• 79 unique questions (and 9 “Take A Break” spots) across 3 different game boards
• ‘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.
• Write a simile using 'mad'.
• Finish this metaphor, "Today, school was....."

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❤ Other Resources You'll LOVE:

• Figurative Language EDITABLE List of Oxymoron Onomatopoeia Alliteration
• Dice Games Figurative Language Similes & Metaphors
• Dice Games Figurative Language Alliteration Onomatopoeia Simile Metaphor
• BUNDLE 2 Dice Games Figurative Language Alliteration Onomatopoeia Simile
• Dice Games Onomatopoeia Oxymoron Personification Alliteration Hyperbole
• SIMILES Choice Board, Student Checklist, Rubric, 48 Similes w/ definitions
• METAPHORS Choice Board, Checklist, Rubric, Metaphors w definition
• Homophones Choice Board 
• Digital Grammar Practice - ALL ABOUT ANIMALS - Walruses
• Digital Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Practice - ALL ABOUT ANIMALS - Gorillas

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This bundle contains digital resources, either on Google Forms or Google Slides, that link to your Google Drive. It contains an American Revolutionary War digital timeline research and sorting activity; a digital close reading activity about the war; and a digital informational text writing unit. 6 Online Lessons, or 6 hours of activities, with NO PREP needed! The Google Forms and Google Slides activities are ideal for distance learning and perfect for students in 5th grade or 6th grade learning about the American War of Independence or U.S. History.

Firstly, there is a great American Revolution Digital Research and Sorting Activity that is perfect for introducing students to some of the key figures and events of the American Revolutionary War. Great for class work, distance learning or home schooling. In total there are 29 posters or task cards that need to be researched and sorted. These can also be printed to make a great classroom display.

Then there is an American Revolutionary War Close Reading Activity. The Google Forms activity comes with an informational text that students need to read through before answering comprehension and grammar questions. An extension writing task is also included.

Finally there is also an American Revolutionary War Informational Text Writing Activity. The activity focuses on key facts about the war, and has been split into four separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each.

Please ensure when you download this resource into Google Drive that you are logged in to the gmail account where you wish to store the activity. In the past teachers have downloaded resources into their school account in error. Thanks :)

This activity is an online resource, that uses Google Slides, and is linked to your Google Drive. It can be completed by students online using tablets or computers. If you are unsure how to allow the students to have their own individual copy take a look at the instructional video below:

Google Classroom - How to make a copy for each student - Assignment

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This bundle contains digital resources, either on Google Forms or Google Slides, that link to your Google Drive and PDF printable equivalent resources. Six complete online lessons, or 6 hours of activities, with NO PREP needed!

Included in this bundle:

• A Google Slides Timeline and Sorting Activity
• A Google Slides Informational Writing Activity
• A Google Forms Close Reading Activity
• A printable PDF Timeline and Sorting Activity
• A printable PDF Informational Writing Activity
• A printable PDF Close Reading Activity

It contains a World War I digital timeline research and sorting activity; a digital close reading activity about World War 1; and a digital informational text writing unit. The Google Forms and Google Slides activities are ideal for distance learning and perfect for students in 5th grade or 6th grade learning about the the First World War or U.S. History.

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Firstly, there is a great World War I Digital Research and Sorting Activity that is perfect for introducing students to some of the key figures and events of the war. Great for class work, distance learning or home schooling. In total there are 30 posters or task cards that need to be researched and sorted. These can also be printed to make a great classroom display.

Then there is a World War 1 Close Reading Activity. The Google Forms activity comes with an informational text that students need to read through before answering comprehension and grammar questions. An extension writing task is also included.

Finally there is also a World War I Informational Text Writing Activity. The activity focuses on key facts about the war, and has been split into four separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each.

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Please ensure when you download this resource into Google Drive that you are logged in to the gmail account where you wish to store the activity. In the past teachers have downloaded resources into their school account in error. Thanks :)

This activity is an online resource, that uses Google Slides, and is linked to your Google Drive. It can be completed by students online using tablets or computers. If you are unsure how to allow the students to have their own individual copy take a look at the instructional video below:

Google Classroom - How to make a copy for each student - Assignment

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• World History Resources

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Twelve complete lessons, either printable or on Google Forms or Google Slides, about the Holocaust of World War II and the famous Jewish diarist, Anne Frank. The NO PREP activities are ideal for distance learning and perfect for students in fifth grade or sixth grade learning about the Holocaust and World War 2.

Included in this bundle:

• Anne Frank Digital Timeline Research and Sorting Activity (1 or 2 lessons)

• Anne Frank Biography Writing Unit Digital & Print (4 lessons)

• Anne Frank BOOM Cards™ Comprehension Activity (1 lesson)

• The Holocaust Informational Writing Unit Digital & Print (3 lessons)

• Anne Frank Close Reading Activity Digital & Print (1 lesson)

• The Holocaust Close Reading Activity Digital & Print (1 lesson)

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This resource is great for:

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• Creative writing
• Distance learning
• Independent work
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• Guided reading sessions
• Emergency sub plans
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These activities are online resources, that use Google Forms or Google Slides, and are linked to your Google Drive. They can be completed by students online using tablets or computers. If you are unsure how to allow the students to have their own individual copy take a look at the instructional video below:

Google Classroom - How to make a copy for each student - Assignment

Please ensure when you download this bundle into Google Drive that you are logged in to the gmail account where you wish to store the activity. In the past teachers have downloaded resources into their school account in error. Thanks :)

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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.

Are you looking for creative, easy-to-use, engaging writing prompts for your students? BONUS... you get to allow students to utilize mindful coloring in their routine! This is for YOU!!

Each creative writing prompt appears on a half sheet of paper as well as on full color and black and white cards. You'll find 100 ENGAGING WRITING PROMPTS in this file (this is VOLUME TWO)! Grab Volume One HERE.

You will also find a quick lesson on mindful coloring which will support your students' social-emotional well-being.

This file includes a link for Google Slides where students can use the text boxes to answer each of the writing prompts. Please refer to the final 7 pages of the product file for this digital option!

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.

These journal prompts for 4th grade and up include a coloring doodle border which adds a mindfulness component to each quick write prompt. This file includes 100 journal prompts.

Each creative writing prompt appears on a half sheet of paper as well as on full color and black and white cards.

You will also find a quick lesson on mindful coloring.

THIS FILE CONTAINS VOLUME TWO. IF YOU'D LIKE TO PURCHASE THE FIRST VOLUME OR THE BUNDLE, PLEASE SEE THE LINKS BELOW:

• Quick Writes Journal Prompts for Upper Elem. and Middle School VOLUME ONE
• Quick Writes Journal Prompts BUNDLE

Please make note of the following:

• Each prompt allows you to include a mindful coloring component. The border included with these daily quick write journal prompts can be colored before the student answers the prompt (sometimes this gives students time to reflect on what they’d like to write) or after they’ve finished writing.
• This activity can be used for students as an early finisher activity, a daily journal, for morning meetings, lessons on building community (and empathy), or for mindfulness practice. Please see the instructions for teaching students about mindfulness that are included in this file. If you are interested in additional mindfulness and meditation exercises, click HERE.
• In addition to the written response pages, I’ve included prompt cards in full color and in black-and-white. These are useful if you choose to discuss the prompts as a class or in small groups. You can also place the cards in a special location and allow students to choose one they’d like to write about on a separate piece of paper.
• Please remember that some students may not feel comfortable answering or sharing responses. It is important to respect their privacy without pressuring them to share. Either allow them to keep their response(s) private or to choose a different prompt. Forcing the issue will erode their trust in you. Let them know that they are free to share in the future, if they choose.
• It’s okay to take these cards home to share with your family, your own children, your spouse or significant other, or your friends. In addition to providing individual reflection, they are designed to help people get to know each other beyond the surface, develop empathy, and dive deeper in their relationships. I truly believe that when you REALLY get to know your students, they achieve great things!

Please let me know if you have any questions prior to purchasing this product!

Daily Journal Writing Prompts Morning Work: Quick Writes with Mindful Coloring

Are you looking for creative, easy-to-use, engaging writing prompts for your students?
BONUS... you get to allow students to utilize mindful coloring in their routine? This is for YOU!!

Each creative writing prompt appears on a half sheet of paper and on full-color and black-and-white cards. You'll find 100 ENGAGING WRITING PROMPTS in this file!

You will also find a quick lesson on mindful coloring to support your student's social-emotional well-being.

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.

These journal prompts for 4th grade and up include a coloring doodle border which adds a mindfulness component to each quick write prompt. This file includes 100 journal prompts.

THIS FILE CONTAINS VOLUME ONE. IF YOU'D LIKE TO PURCHASE THE SECOND VOLUME OR THE BUNDLE, PLEASE SEE THE LINKS BELOW:

• Quick Writes Journal Prompts for Upper Elem. and Middle School VOLUME TWO
• Quick Writes Journal Prompts BUNDLE

Please make a note of the following:

• Each prompt allows you to include a mindful coloring component. The border included with these daily quick write journal prompts can be colored before the student answers the prompt (sometimes this gives students time to reflect on what they’d like to write) or after they’ve finished writing.
• This activity can be used for students as an early finisher activity, a daily journal, for morning meetings, lessons on building community (and empathy), or for mindfulness practice. Please see the instructions for teaching students about mindfulness that are included in this file. If you are interested in additional mindfulness and meditation exercises, click HERE.
• In addition to the written response pages, I’ve included prompt cards in full color and in black-and-white. These are useful if you choose to discuss the prompts as a class or in small groups. You can also place the cards in a special location and allow students to choose one they’d like to write about on a separate piece of paper.
• Please remember that some students may not feel comfortable answering or sharing responses. It is important to respect their privacy without pressuring them to share. Either allow them to keep their response(s) private or to choose a different prompt. Forcing the issue will erode their trust in you. Let them know that they are free to share in the future if they choose.
• It’s okay to take these cards home to share with your family, your own children, your spouse or significant other, or your friends. In addition to providing individual reflection, they are designed to help people get to know each other beyond the surface, develop empathy, and dive deeper in their relationships. I truly believe that when you REALLY get to know your students, they achieve great things!

Please let me know if you have any questions before purchasing this product!

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!

Click HERE to see other writing resources!

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