This story starter featuring an alien family trip will engage your second grader in a fun coloring exercise and help strengthen his writing skills!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

With this worksheet, students will read a short text about Malala Yousafzai's fight for girls’ rights to education in Pakistan, and then answer questions about the importance of standing up for what they believe in.

Help young writers get their personal narratives in top form with this editing checklist! Students will make sure that their narratives have correct ending punctuation and capitalization with this handy worksheet.

Create some Halloween poetry with this acrostic poem-writing worksheet!

Everyone's heard the story of the ugly duckling, but have you met his new friend, the beastly bird? Help students learn about the importance of transition words when telling a story with this fun tale of outcasts who become fast friends!

What would happen if two snails entered a race? Start your own story with these slow-and-steady snails!

What is this tennis player doing? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Use words from street signs and billboards to create poetry. Pick four words, use one word per line in a four-line poem. Don't be afraid to get creative!

A lot can happen in a day! Transition words can help us organize our thoughts into a sequential story. Use this activity to teach students the importance of transition words as they tell about their day...all with the help of sentence frames!

Want students to add more pizazz to their narratives? Encourage them to use descriptive details! Have students read over their writing and identify how many adjectives they used. Then challenge them to add in at least five more adjectives.

Finished with the first draft of informational writing? Let this handy checklist guide students through a peer review conference! Students will check for correct punctuation, capitalization, complete sentences, and staying on topic.

Take a look at the colorful monster and practice writing by describing him!

Preservation of natural resources happens in lots of ways, big and small. When you don't want something to run out too quickly, what can you do to help?

When your child uses this worksheet, he'll work on his storytelling ability and a ton of other helpful skills as well.

It’s time for Halloween and the houses are getting all decorated! Help kids get into the Halloween spirit by drawing decorations on a house, then write a narrative about the house.

Make personal narrative and dialogue prep a breeze with this organizer! Students will practice sequencing and prewriting as they put together their personal narrative about a time they were surprised by something or someone.

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.

This activity encourages your students to write a poem about their favorite animals! Help your students hone their poetry writing skills using this list poem template.

Let future leaders get a taste of American politics with their very own election book!

Kiss “The End” goodbye! This activity gets students to practice using more interesting story endings.

Successful peer conferences are a breeze with this narrative writing checklist! Students will review their own writing and a partner's writing, checking for correct punctuation, capitalization, complete sentences, and staying on topic.

Does your 1st grader have a favorite activity or game? Have him write his opinion with this easy to use opinion writing template worksheet.

What if your child were President? Get your learner's political mind pumping with a writing activity about what they would do as President of the United States.

Oh no! Cuz-Cuz is in Roly's food! It's up to your child to figure out why by adding text to the characters' speech bubbles.

Use this worksheet to help students write sentences about the first African American women to enter space, Mae Jemison.

Ready for sentence building liftoff! This worksheet will help your second grader build his creative writing skills and practice forming sentences.

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.

Your students have been working hard on their narrative writing skills! Use this writing assessment to evaluate their abilities to develop and describe characters in their narrative writing texts.