Women's History Month Endless Creative Writing Prompts

Never come up with a creative writing prompt again with this Women's History Month-themed storytelling unit! Using the 'somebody wants but so then' (SWBST) approach, this comprehensive LOW PREP resource includes historical figure character cards, creative writing graphic organizers, writing rubrics, and more.

It makes a great addition to your Women's History Month unit study; writing lessons or centers; or social studies or history class. Perfect for first grade, second grade, and third grade classrooms, homeschool families, and cooperatives.

ELEMENTS INCLUDE: 

• Teacher instructions
• Creative writing rubrics (teacher and student versions)
• Women's history cards (69 in color and 69 in B&W)
• Creative writing graphic organizers (4 options with endless creative possibilities)
• 100 common adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions
• Writing process handouts and bookmarks
• Parts of speech anchor chart

After printing the cards, select which graphic organizers you would like students to use, review the rubric with them, and send them off to write. This can be done individually or in small groups so they can bounce ideas off of one another. Students will submit their finished creative writing stories for teacher assessment.

HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT WOMEN INCLUDE:

LEADERS

Michelle Bachelet, Benazir Bhutto, Catherine the Great, Cleopatra, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Eva Peron, Gloria Macapgal Arroyo, Angela Merkel, Margaret Thatcher, Indira Ghandi, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, and Queen Victoria.

NOTABLE WOMEN

Anne Frank, Boudicca, Catherine Middleton, Florence Nightingale, Helen Keller, Joan of Arc, Marie Antoinette, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Isabella, Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Isabella, Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth I, and Malala Yosafzai.

SCIENCE

Alexa Canady, Barbara McClintock, Caroline Herschel, Elizabeth Blackwell, Emilie Du Chatelet, Irene Joliot Curie, Mary Anning, Mary Somerville, Jane Goodall, Kathryn D Sullivan, Lie Meitner, Mae Jamison, Marie M Daly, and Rosalind Franklin.

SPORTS

Ali Raisman, Billie Jean King, Carli Lloyd, Jackie Joyner Kersee, Gabrielle Reece, Gracie Gold, Dominique Dawes, Danica Patrick, Joan Benoit, Lindsey Vonn, Michelle Wie, Nadia Comenici, Nancy Kerrigan, Serena Williams, and Ronda Roussey.

THE ARTS

Audrey Hepburn, Anna Pavlova, Coco Chanel, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, Diana Ross, Louisa May Alcott, Julia Child, Georgia O’Keefe, Grace Kelly, Misty Copeland, Joni Mitchell, Marilyn Monroe, Tina Turner, and Eleanor Powell.

THIS RESOURCE COVERS:

• Art (illustrating and coloring)
• English language arts
• Grammar
• History
• Research
• Social studies
• Writing (creative writing and storytelling)