Creative Writing
Help children develop stories, poems, and ideas in their own voices. Explore character, setting, structure, and revision, and distinguish historical evidence from invented scenes when writing about the past.
Telling their own stories, in their own words, starting with people who look like them.
What kids actually do here
Map a story, read a great one, then write your own and put your name on it.
Story Maps
Plan a beginning, middle and end before you write a word.
Open the story maps →02The Basket That Remembers
A Gullah Geechee story you scroll through. Notice how it is built, then build your own.
Start the story →03The Library
Explore different writers and forms, then develop a voice and story of your own.
Visit the Library →04Find a story on the timeline
Every card on the timeline is a story waiting for a writer. Pick one.
Open the timeline →Where to start, by age
Every learner enters this subject from a different door. Pick the one that fits.
Little Minds
Read-alongs and first stories, told out loud before they are written.
Visit Little Minds →3rd to 6thStory Maps
The story map is the place to start writing on purpose.
Open the maps →TeensFind current resources
Choose books, activities, and learning tools for this learner group. Additional weekly plans are in development.
Explore the catalog →Courses in this subject
The first courses are on the way.
Join free to be first to know when a course opens, and start writing with the story maps above.
This subject connects to
Every subject has a story in it. Here is where to look.
For parents
Learning sticks when it comes home. Here is how to keep the conversation going.
At the dinner table
- Make up a story about our street. Who lives at the very end of it?
- What is a story in our family that nobody has written down yet?
- If you could change the ending of one book, which one and how?
What your child builds
- A beginning, middle and end they can build on purpose.
- Stories that start with people who look like them.
- The confidence to put their name on their own words.
Ready to step inside?
Explore current resources at your learner’s pace. The catalog separates available activities, previews, upcoming courses, and learning still in development.