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• A Tasteful Cliche Creating Writing Resources - $2.99 each

  • Character and Setting Writing Prompts
    Creative writing prompts for your students (120 worksheets in all). These fun creative writing prompts involve a given character (from history, mythology, etc.) and a given setting. The student has to write a story about, or from the perspective of, the character in the given setting. An example: Write a story about a werewolf in a galaxy far, far away. Another example: Cinderella in a logging camp.

  • Alien Observer Worksheets
    A fun creative writing exercise for your students. Creative writing prompts (100 in all) for your English students. They are tasked with describing an activity or object on Earth as if they were an alien scout sent to describe everything on Earth to their fellow aliens.

  • Puppy Dog Tails Worksheets
    Give your students these fun writing exercises for a different kind of creative writing assignment. The students have to create a recipe for three occupations per worksheet (over 100 worksheets in all!), similar to the poem in which boys are made of "snips, snails, and puppy dog tails".

  • Dull Product Advertisement Worksheets
    A creative writing and art assignment for your students. Students have to create an advertisement for an otherwise-dull household product like bow ties and door knobs. 100 prompts in all.

• Time4Learning.com - an online curriculum program for K-8 in every subject.
• An excellent reading and phonics curriculum/game is Ring Around The Phonics. It teaches grades K through second, and can be used to teach adults as well. It has everything you need, including books. Visit the Ring Around the Phonics website for more information.
• Ginger Spell: A new spelling and grammar service (still in beta) that checks not only misspelled words, but misused ones as well.  
• The Color: A site to color online.  Great for little kids to play with or as a resource for elementary teachers.

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