Elementary School Prewriting Worksheets

This Christmas writing prompt gets your child to think about what it's like to have Santa's job. Try this Christmas writing prompt with your young writer.

Young authors will enjoy planning their writing with this memorable burger-themed graphic organizer.

Stretch those writing skills with this "stretch a sentence" activity! Little writers will learn to expand on an idea by adding more details to a sentence.

Keep creativity alive this winter break with a creative writing prompt, inspired by the spirit of Christmas giving!

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

Help your child identify goals for the new year through drawings and early writing.

Children will read simple pasta directions, then select the correct transition words from the choices shown.

Help students organize their ideas and structure their paragraph responses with this PEEL graphic organizer!

Imagine you spent a day in the life of a snowflake. What winter wonders would you see? Have some fun with this creative writing prompt.

Enlighten the holiday spirit in your beginning writer, and have her respond to this Christmas writing prompt about the holiday colors.

Help your kindergarten students learn about sequencing as they help Evan bake a cake!

Mmmm! Can you smell the Christmas cookies in the oven? Warm up your child's writing skills with this Christmas cookies writing prompt.

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

Practice writing topic sentences with this paragraph structure worksheet!

Here's a great activity to get your second grader's mind going and creativity in action! He'll write a story to go with the picture and even get to color too.

Children will practice sequencing a simple story in this hands-on writing process worksheet.

Students practice sequencing story events with this worksheet. Cut out the sentences into strips and then build your story by arranging them in the best order.

This worksheet template guides children through the pre-writing and writing process, helping them to organize their thoughts before they write.

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.

Children practice identifying and writing a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a conclusion in this narrative writing worksheet.

Where could this map lead to? Give your beginning writer a fun way to exercise his creativity.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Help your learner understand the difference between yesterday, today and tomorrow with a fun and simple journal.

Do Christmas angels play hockey? Use your imagination to elaborate on this wacky winter scene!

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

In this worksheet, children read an example of a bio poem for jazz musician Thelonious Monk, then use the prompt to create a bio poem for a person of their choosing.

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

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

Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

This language arts assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the persuasive writing genre.