Feeling-o-meter: A visual feeling thermometer for children to properly identify and describe their feelings of anger, frustration and disappointment.

Character Building Checklist - Tips and resources to help you develop well-rounded, compelling characters in your writing.

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We've had lots of feedback from our "Read-O" and "Math-O" that was posted a few days ago and so I wanted to post the "Write-O" that I made ...

Looking for fun activities to explore the art of poetry and use it to support language learning? Try these simple and fun activities!

Writing Clinic´s creative writing prompts to get students writing. This worksheet comes with a writing/brainstorming prompts so students know what it expected of them. For more Writing Clinic worksheets, check my uploaded worksheets. - ESL worksheets

Are you a homeschooling mom? Tricia Goyer shares 6 activities you can do with your writers' club

What is your favorite animal? Answer this question and many more in this creative writing worksheet in which young writers can practice writing sentences.

The setting of a story performs the vital task of transporting the reader into the story. Download this worksheet (PDF) Story Settings The questions in this 2-page story setting worksheet can help you hone in on the details of your character’s environment. Does the scene take place indoors or out? Is the space light or…

In this blog post, read about my best teaching strategies to teach writing narrative endings. Grab all the freebies to help you teach.

Model your e-mail on the sample above. Use your own ideas and relevant information. This can be used as part of My Writing Book (cover uploaded elsewhere) or as a stand alone. Fully editable. To change clip art- ungroup first.There are 19 compositions in all. Bind in a spiral or use individually.Cover found here:https://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/creative_writing_my_writing_book_a1_level/creative-writing-my/27280 - ESL worksheets

Writing Worksheet – Your Life Themes (PDF) What are the themes that run through your life, like the leitmotivs in a symphony? Have you ever stopped to look for the pattern that repeats rhythmically in your experiences? What is it you’re always struggling with below the surface? What are the phrases that define all of your stories? Twine your…

Learn the art of world-building in your sci-fi, fantasy or alt-history story with these 10 key elements of world-building!

Celestial symbolism in writing refers to the use of celestial bodies such as the sun, moon, and stars as symbols to convey deeper meanings in a literary work. Celestial symbolism has been used in literature for centuries. It can add depth and meaning to your work by conveying abstract ideas and emotions through concrete images. Symbolism helps to create a mood or atmosphere, and to reinforce themes and motifs throughout a text. The same symbol can represent a variety of things in literature depending on the context and the author's intent, which is why some examples may have more than one association.

Here’s another charming comic by cartoonist Grant Snider. It explores the process of doubt that all writers and artists are familiar with. The comic is available as a poster in his online shop!

If you could do just one exercise a day in order to improve your writing skills, what would it be? That was the question I wanted to answer for our final journal worksheet this year. After all, practice and improvement are the reason we keep writing journals, right? The most exciting answer for me was…

Plotting by J.L. Bell

Writing Clinic´s creative writing prompts to get students writing. This worksheet comes with a short sample story so students know what it expected of them. (Second blank page included if students need more space or write on every other line only to facilitate teacher´s correction). For more Writing Clinic worksheets, check my uploaded worksheets. - ESL worksheets

This 3-part character conflict worksheet can help put your character in trouble... and pull them out of it!

10 significant reasons to read aloud to students on a

Article of the week resources for middle school classrooms. Use this list of free and paid resources to help plan for your lessons.

Writing Worksheet – Geography (PDF) This 4-page worksheet will be most useful to science-fiction and fantasy writers, but even if you’re writing within the confines of “our” world, it’s worth giving geography some thought. Most of history and politics is influenced by people’s need to gather and guard the natural resources that they collect from the earth,…

Leveraging the students’ mobile devices has become an ongoing and integrated practice of my face-to-face undergraduate course on Interpersonal Relations. What follows are the mobile and tech…

Need your character to do something, but not sure what would motivate them to do it? This character motivation worksheet can help!

A student started this as a summary of relative clauses. I corrected her few mistakes and spruced it up a bit, but I find it to be a pretty good cheat sheet of relative clauses. Please note

Self-help remedies for art school students! Art school can be a place that alienates and undermines self-esteem. These self-help remedies will restore confidence in yourself!

Model your e-mail on the sample above. Use your own ideas and relevant information. This can be used as part of My Writing Book Fully editable. To change clip art- ungroup first.There are 19 compositions in all. Bind in a spiral or use individually.Cover found here:https://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/creative_writing_my_writing_book_a1_level/creative-writing-my/27280 - ESL worksheets

Creative Writing Worksheet – Politics (PDF) No subject could be less dear to my heart than politics, and in consequence I find myself immensely impressed by writers who create intricate political intrigue in their stories. On one end of the spectrum are science-fiction authors like Lois McMaster Bujold and Anne McCaffrey who invent the political systems of different planets, and on…

Creative Writer Worksheet – Everybody’s Doing It (PDF) This week’s worksheet is about doing what everyone else is doing… differently. If you’ve been struggling with writing something, perhaps you need to approach it your way. Or maybe you need a bigger challenge! ;) Don’t reinvent the wheel; redirect it.

Writing Worksheet – Endings (PDF) In honour of NaNoWriMo, this month’s worksheets will have one purpose: to increase your word count by hook or by book. The final writing worksheet in this marvellous month of November is inspired by the last virtual NaNoWriMo write-in. Imagining the best endings for each of your characters is a…