Writer's Locker

The Universal Creative Writing Rubric keeps students focused on important writing characteristics regardless of creative genre – flash fiction, short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, memoir, etc. This rubric helps students understand consistent expectations and reduces scoring time for teachers because the criteria doesn’t change with every creative writing assignment. As a creative writing teacher, this has helped me focus on skill building across many different genres. This product has be

Whether you are incorporating Kindness into your start-of-year activities, celebrating National Kindness Day (annually on Nov. 13) or National Random Act of Kindness Day (annually on Feb. 17th), or participating in The Great Kindness Challenge ( January 26-30, 2026), this lesson will get your students thinking and writing about important moments of kindness in their lives. Students brainstorm and write original poems based on a personal act of kindness they experienced. The activities were des

Teaching a multi-genre writing unit? Use this handout to guide students in selecting genres for their project. This simple "Genre by Mode" chart will also help teachers select appropriate writing genres to teach for each mode (informative, narrative, persuasive/argument) of writing. While planning your writing units, consult a quick list of possible writing genres to teach. Will your narrative unit focus on memoir, tall tales, pourquoi, or flash fiction? This chart will give you quick access to