In this lesson students will work together to revise a scene from a first draft by adding descriptive details.

Students learn to incorporate setting as a key element of a story, starting with inspiration from collages.

In this twist on a classic game, students will practice intentional inclusivity with their classmates, as well as brainstorm other ways to continue building community throughout the school year.

Invite students to write freely with this lesson that includes directions for students to set up a writer's journal and favorite journal prompts.

We are all parts of a whole, just like a pizza! In this Spark, students will think about all the things that make them who they are and then write a poem in the shape of a pizza.

Students reflect on what it feels like to stand up to bullying and write about a time when they used their voice to make a difference.

Students are inspired to write about a time that they felt accepted and appreciated for who they are.

In this Spark, students put on their detective hats and sleuth out places to add more details into their writing.

Students will learn about representation, self-advocacy, and the work of Marley Dias before writing about this young advocate.

In this activity, students practice analyzing a character’s internal motivations and fears and develop their own original characters.

Students experiment with alternative ways of writing poetry by reordering and rearranging pre-existing text.

Students will write a poem about nature using sensory details to capture the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and feeling of the subject.

In this Spark, students will write an acrostic poem that can be used as a tool to introduce themselves to their classmates.

The Character-O-Matic is a writing tool that helps students to create new characters. In this lesson, students will use it to create a character profile that reflects their own identies.

Students write similes to express what their emotions feel like and build plans to treat others with kindness and empathy.

Engage young writers of any age at home with this collection of 826 Digital writing prompts and activities.

Nouns, adjectives, adverbs—and in this case—verbs are the building blocks of super sentences. In this Spark, students share action words that bring them joy and incorporate those verbs into a story.

In this Spark, students will write a poem that engages the reader in answering the question: Can you guess this food?

This Spark provides students with the opportunity to get to know their classmates by sharing personal stories about a specific topic.

Students will imagine what they would do if they were someone or something else.

This activity reinforces the role of dialogue in a story, with students creating realistic conversation in A-Z fashion.

After writing about their personal and social identities, students discover that sometimes what makes us unique is what brings us together.

This activity explores the way emotions change how we perceive settings. Students work in groups to create descriptions of apartments based on an emotion they draw from a hat.

In this Spark, students will pretend to be their favorite food and write about what that food would do on an average day.

With a little folding and loads of creativity, students make their own zines that feature abstract recipes.

Students will anthropomorphize an inanimate object to produce interview questions and answers.

In this Spark, students will use backward thinking to create a four-panel comic strip story using the backward problem-solving skills of software developers.

Students will identify their favorite sensory memories and transfer them to a visual heart map.

What are students made of? This activity prompts students to reimagine recipes and write about their life experiences.

Nouns, adjectives, verbs—and in this case—adverbs are the building blocks of super sentences. In this Spark, students will practice identifying and using adverbs in their writing.

Author bios offer students another opportunity to express themselves through writing and to feel like a real author. This Spark walks students through the process of writing one.

In this Spark, students will develop a setting that captures the environment of an alternate world.

Writing can be a powerful tool when working through feelings of grief, sadness, or anger. This Spark creates an intentional opportunity for youth to write and speak about what is on their minds.

Challenge students to rewrite a classic nursery rhyme with a twist.

In this activity, students create original monsters in archetypal protagonist and antagonistic roles by focusing on internal and external characteristics.

This spark activity is designed to get your students on their feet while reinforcing the need for strong dialogue in narratives.

A BINGO board full of fun, engaging writing prompts to keep skills sharp over the summer break!

Students will define the word “ode” for themselves and identify the people and moments in their lives they’d like to celebrate in a poem.

Students use illustrations as entry points to write stories about friendship from a new perspective.