Gratitude Activities – Creative Writing, Literacy & Fun Tasks for High School
Bring gratitude and positivity into your classroom while keeping lessons focused on learning!
This no-prep Gratitude ELA resource is filled with 12 creative, skill-based activities that combine comprehension, critical thinking, persuasive writing, and creative storytelling. The mix of puzzles, debates, and quick writes gives every learner something engaging, all wrapped in a gratitude theme.
With ready-to-use templates, prompts, and activities designed for independence or collaboration, this fully editable resource makes it easy to add meaningful, high-interest lessons at any time of year.
(If you're looking for a THANKSGIVING theme, find this version in our TPT store here!)
Perfect for:
- Full-period lessons
- Warm-ups or quick literacy boosts
- Group work or independent study
- Early finisher activities
- A fun homework task or sub plan
This resource includes:
⭐ 12 standalone Gratitude-themed activities
⭐ Visual templates and prompts to support engagement
⭐ Activities:
- Figurative Language Feast
- The Many Faces of Gratitude non-fiction extract & comprehension questions
- Fact vs Myth ranking challenge
- Gratitude Crossword
- POV Writing Challenge
- Persuasive Speech Mini-Task
- Gratitude Debate
- Story Builder Challenge
- Gratitude Quick-Writes
- Creative Non-Fiction Journal Prompt
- Gratitude Wordsearch
- Gratitude Labels printable activity
This resource is adapted from our popular Thanksgiving Activities resource (found only in our TPT store), reworked with a gratitude focus so it can be used in any classroom, any time of year.
You and your students will enjoy:
❤️ A wide variety of engaging activities to keep lessons fresh and engaging.
❤️ Skill practice in reading, writing, and critical thinking, all disguised as fun.
❤️ Zero-prep lessons you can print or assign digitally.
Formats:
🖥️ Microsoft PowerPoint, resized to an A4 page. This means your resource:
- Is completely editable.
- Will easily upload to your Google Drive if you prefer the Googley suite.
- Is printable 📃
🖥️ A PDF version of each document.
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