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Item	Description
Book: Trumpet of the Swan - Diary Entry form	Use this form to keep a diary like Sam's.
Coloring Page: Christmas Ornament	[member-created with abctools] A big Christmas ornament with prompts for kids to draw various Christmas-related pictures. These would make a cute Christmas tree bulletin board, or cut out and use as a shapebook.
Poem Form: Valentine Balloon	Write a poem in the heart-shaped balloon.
Project: The Best Vacation Ever (upper elem/middle)	This 16 page vacation planner is a great project to help students understand the process of planning and organizing a vacation. Whether plans are for a low-budget camping trip in a nearby state park, or a fantastic voyage to a faraway country, students will have fun planning budgets, etc., with this unit.
Shapebook: Butterfly (Elementary)	[member-created document] Trace and cut out. This butterfly-shaped shapebook has prompts for students to answer about butterflies.
Shapebook: Colors (primary/elem)	Nine-page crayon box-shaped shapebook, with the text "I like (color)" on each page and blank space to write or draw a picture.
Shapebook: Homeschooling Fun! (primary)	This school-shaped shapebook has short texts on each page ("This is me. I am ___ years old"), and space for students to draw illustrations. 11 pages.
Shapebook: My Cat (elementary)	Write a book about your cat. Includes writing prompts and lines for writing, as well as space to draw pictures.
Shapebook: My Fish (Primary)	[member-created document] Trace and cut out. This fish-shaped shapebook has simple prompts for early readers to answer about their fish.
Shapebook: Pig (primary)	Cut out the shapes. There are three pages. The first page is a suggested cover page. Make copies of as many lined and/or unlined pages as you like in order to make a book. Use the lined pages for writing and the unlined pages for drawing/pasting pictures. Staple all the pages together for a great shapebook in the shape of its subject.
Shapebook: Rocket (elementary)	[member-created using abctools] Trace and cut out. This rocket-shaped shapebook has a prompt for students to answer about "If I Lived on the Moon."
Shapebook: Star	[member-created with abctools] Star shape with simple writing prompt ("I can..."). Trace and cut out, and use to make a shapebook or to decorate the classroom or a bulletin board.
Shapebook: Unicorn	Trace and cut out the lined unicorn pattern for a great student shapebook. Three unicorn-shaped pages: cover, lined page and empty unicorn shape.
Story Planner: Animal Story	Use this story planner to help you write an animal story.
Story Planner: Country	Use this form to plan a story that takes place in the country you are studying.
Unit: Think and Write (upper elem/middle)	This unit has several writing prompts that encourage thinking and writing skills. Use alone or in small groups. Great fun! Eighteen pages.
Writing Prompt: Christmas - Dear Santa (elementary)	[member-created using abctools] "Hold on to your reindeer, Santa, here it goes - " Write a list of good things you have accomplished this year with this form.
Writing Prompt: Emotions and the Trumpet of the Swan	"Louis has a lot of different emotions throughout the book..."
Writing Prompt: Imagine you are a kite... (upper elementary)	[member-created using abctools]Four pages of prompts to write imaginatively about life as a kite. Colorful kite illustrations in the borders.
Writing Prompt: Life on the Farm (elementary)	Barn-shaped paper with writing prompts about life on the farm, such as "Farmers work hard. They ..."
Writing Prompt: My Goals (elementary)	A picture of a football and goal-related writing prompts inside, for example, "My goal in science is ___" or "My personal goal to improve ___"
Writing Prompt: Peace (upper elem)	"When I think about peace, I think about..." with an illustration of a dove at the top of the page.
Writing Prompt: Picture Dictionary Skills (elem/upper elem)	[member-created with abctools] Scroll-shaped shapebook with picture dictionary skill-related writing prompts such as "translate the words from the dictionary into your language" or "choose ten words and write one sentence for each word."
Writing Prompt: Valentine Similes	"___ is as sweet as ___." Use this paper, with hearts in the surrounding border and sentence prompts, to write a Valentine's poem.

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Writing Prompt: 101 Journal Topics (middle school)	Use this two page list of journal topics as prompts for a daily journal. Students can mark off topics as they complete them.
Writing Prompts: All About Me!	"All About Me" This twelve-page unit helps students express their interests and goals.
Journal: Camp (elem/upper elem)	Print and fasten together
Writing Prompt: Cowboy/Rodeo (upper elem)	Four pages of writing prompts and other activities related to writing and poetry, with a cowboy/rodeo theme.
Writing Prompt: Friends (elem/upper elem)	"Write about a friend of yours." Lined paper with an illustration of friends and a prompt to write about a friend.
Writing Prompt: Moving (upper elem/ middle)	Moving to a new place is exciting...
Writing Paper: My Friends	Lined writing paper with the title "My Friends" at the top.
Booklet: My Memory Book (elementary)	12 half pages for students to fill in simple prompts and draw or attach pictures as illustrations for their favorite memories, etc.
Writing Prompt: Pond Theme (elem/upper elem)	Includes: Danny the Dragonfly, Duck Travels, Marty the Butterfly, Friends at the Pond (Descriptive Writing), Life on a Lily Pad and Swan Story. Six pages of lined paper with pond-story writing prompts and cute illustrations at the top.
Border Paper: School is (primary)	Unlined paper with illustrations of school-related objects in the surrounding border (apples, pencils, crayons) and the writing prompt "School is..." at the top.
Border Paper: School is (primary)	Wide-lined paper with illustrations of school-related objects like pencils and apples in the surrounding border, and the prompt "School is..." at the top.
Writing Prompt: Three Words (elementary)	Three pages of three word groupings to help students create sentences.
Story Starters (elementary)	Fifteen simple writing prompts to get your early writers off to a creative start. Includes wide-lined paper and space to draw illustrations.
Story Starters: Like Most Other Kids Except (elementary)	"Like other kids, except..." Eight pages of fun story starters for elementary students.
Story Starter: Children (elementary)	"Jeremy found that when your father is President of the United States, strange things happen,like the time when..." Eight pages of story starters about the wild adventures of various children, including cute illustrations and wide lines for writing.
Story Starter: Like Other Kids Except... (elementary)	Like other kids, except... Eight cute story starters with b/w illustrations.
Story Starter: Like most other kids, except... (elementary)	15 illustrated story starters about kids.
Writing Prompt: Writing Packet (elementary)	Writing packet with lots of pictures to help prompt students into writing a story, writing prompts and other ideas.
Writing Prompt: Camping (elementary)	A page of writing prompts about camping in the summer.
Unit: Fairy Tales - The Three Pigs PLUS (primary/elementary)	Write and illustrate an alternate version (or a faithful rendition) of the Three Pigs. Following directions, practicing word sounds, reading comprehension, basic graph skills, and more are included in this engaging multitask unit.
How to... Write an Exciting Story	Kid-friendly instructions help students creatively create the elements of an exciting story.
Writing Prompts: 18 Creative Prompts (elem)	Eighteen writing prompts for younger students, with lines for writing. Includes teaching suggestions.
Writing Prompt: Writing Exercises (upper elementary)	Eight pages of writing prompts and exercises including "how to write a hook," and "time-sequence transition words".
Writing Prompts: Imagination (elem/upper elem)	A collection of 26 creative writing prompts, from trading places with your pet to porquoi stories.
Writing Paper: You are special... (elementary)	Wide-lined writing paper with illustrations of flowers in flower pots in the upper-right and lower-left corners, and the prompt, "You are special".
Border Paper: Basketball Fever (elementary)	Lined paper with an illustration of a basket at the top and basketballs in the surrounding border, and the title "Basketball Fever by ____".
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