Provide your students with the inspiration they need to develop the vocabulary, ideas, and enthusiasm that will make their writing shine!Creative Writing Ideas comes with a wide variety of creative activities that can be used for prewriting and drafting or as stand-alone activities. 78 motivating activities—including draw and write, riddles, story starters, cartoons, shape books, and more—provide students with the creative spark they need to start writing with confidence and success.You'll love Creative Writing Ideas because it:contains 78 motivating writing activities. From shape books and cartoons to letter writing and poetry exercises -- there are a variety of activities to engage your students in important writing practice.inspires reluctant writers. Motivating topics and delightful illustrations make writing fun! Many writing prompts are based on events that relate to students' lives.can be used for independent practice. Writing forms provide guided writing experiences students can complete on their own.is correlated to state standards.Eleven types of writing experiences engage your students as they practice important skills.shape booksdraw and writeriddlessequence and writefill in the missing wordsstory starterscartoonsdescriptive paragraphswriting directionsletter writingpoetryThis resource contains teacher support pages and reproducible student pages. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.About Evan-MoorA leader in PreK–8 educational publishing, Evan-Moor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning. Read Less