Elementary School Prewriting Worksheets

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.

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

Practice writing topic sentences with this paragraph structure worksheet!

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

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

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

Use this paper template to create a miniature lantern with your own wishes for the coming year.

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

Enjoy a sweet writing response page all about Valentine's Day. Kids will get to reflect on an important person in their life.

Children will enjoy dreaming up their dream Valentine's Day gift in this simple drawing and writing prompt.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

If your writer needs help organizing to write that big essay assignment, give them a helpful cheat-sheet full of tips on making an outline.

Get your thoughts organized with this handy graphic organizer! Kids can use this template to deconstruct any story they're working on in school.

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.

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

With this worksheet, your student can rearrange these nouns and verbs into complete sentences, building creative writing skills.

Kids read a story about a puppy, then finish it by writing what they think will happen next.

Flex those writing skills with these clever prompts. Practice stretching sentences by adding details of who, what, when and where!

Children will create a timeline of a parent, grandparent, or loved one with this biography template.

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

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

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.