The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

Characters are at the very center of any story, and learning how to create dynamic characters is essential for budding writers. Your students can use this handy organizer to plan rich character development in their creative writing.

Use this graphic organizer to help students plan their personal narratives by drawing what will happen. Thinking about the beginning, middle, and end of their narratives encourages young writers to stretch out the small moments they write about.

Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something they’ve done in the summer

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something related to school.

Thanksgiving is a great time to focus on family and be thankful for things in our lives. In the worksheet A Poem with Details from Your Thanksgiving, learners will write an abecedarian poem with details from their Thanksgiving break where the first letter

This worksheet bundle rounds up some writing prompts for your child to explore different writing styles.

Learners will create a decorative leaf project with their resolutions, then write a short paragraph summarizing how they hope to achieve them.

What kind of camping trip plan would your child make? They can write down details with this worksheet.

Children must complete the missing parts of the story in this fun creative writing exercise.

This template guides children through the pre-writing process as they prepare to write about a special day, adventure, or experience.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Practice writing topic sentences with this paragraph structure worksheet!

Use this graphic organizer to help kids differentiate between fact or opinion.

Write an ice skating story based on the illustration on the page. It can be silly or heartfelt, even science fiction!

Boost your child's writing skills with these simple sentence starters for beginning writers!

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

Here is a great story-starter for more advanced writers. Your student will put his creativity to the test by filling in the blanks to this story!

Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.