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1st and 2nd Grade Common Core Prewriting Worksheets : Page 2

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.

My Story's Characters

Follow Chuck on vacation by looking at the pictures he took! What is he doing in each picture? Use your imagination and creativity to write captions for each.

Photo Captions

Time to play detective! Can you describe what happened int his scene, just by looking at the picture? Practice making inferences by looking at context.

Drawing Conclusions

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

Ingredients of a Story

Learners will write an original song for planet Earth in this fun songwriting prompt.

Write an Earth Day Song

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.

Personal Narrative Organizer: Surprise!

Learners can gather a lot of information about a topic or issue by interviewing career professionals from the community. Use this Guest Speaker Interview worksheet to have students ask a speaker questions and write down their answers.

Guest Speaker Career Interview 

Adding dialogue to writing makes for more entertaining and relatable story-telling. In this activity, young writers will use a fun comic book format to add simple dialogue to their personal narratives.

Personal Narrative: Adding Dialogue

It's never too early to start planning for your future! After imagining what their lives will be like at age 25, students write persuasive letters to their parents asking for their support.

Convince Me: Persuasive Writing Practice

It's time to brainstorm! Use this worksheet to help budding writers generate a list of ideas and topics for future stories, as well as give students a chance to practice their letter and word spacing.

Writing Ideas

Why is this dinosaur holding an egg? Help your second grader get creative with his reading and writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Make a Dinosaur Sentence

What is this tractor trying to build? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Tractor Building Sentences

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

Make a Space Shuttle Sentence

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

Sporty Sentence Making

It's storytelling time! Bring the magic of tall tales closer to home by creating a tall tale based on someone your child knows and admires.

Writing a Tall Tale

Learners can gather a lot of information about veterans and their former jobs by interviewing them on Veterans Day. Use the worksheet Interview a Veteran to have students ask veterans questions and write down their answers.

Interview a Veteran

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Create a Nonfiction Big Book.

Vocabulary Cards: Create a Nonfiction Big Book

Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their very own fairy tale. It includes sections for planning the characters, setting, and three parts of the story.

Story Board

Can you name what trick this skateboarder is doing? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Skateboarding Sentences!

Rev your creative engines! This worksheet will help your second grader build his reading and writing skills, and practice making sentences of his very own.

Make a Speedy Sentence

Here's a writing prompt to put a jig in your step, and pep in your writing practice!

Dinosaur & Pirate Jig Scene

Students will use a comic book format to organize conversations within their personal narratives and practice the writing process.

Adding Extended Dialogue

What is this funny dinosaur doing? Help your second grader rearrange the jumbled words, and add in the missing words to make a complete sentence.

Sentence Making Dino!

What's going on here? Your child can decide what's happening and where these characters might go next, using this writing prompt as a start.

Writing Inspiration for Kids

Fall is the perfect time to let your child’s imagination go wild as they design and write about their very own pumpkin person. This worksheet provides a great way to gets kids excited about both Halloween and creative writing!

All About My Pumpkin Person

Got a case of writer's block? One great way to get started is to draw a picture!

Draw and Write

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

Christmas Cookies Writing Prompt

Roarrr!! What is this T-Rex trying to say? Help your second grader build his reading and writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Make a T-Rex Sentence

Help your students get excited about choosing a title for their fictional story with this helpful planning sheet. Students will also plan an important character and surprising plot moment in their stories!

Write that Title

Who is your favorite larger-than-life character? Help your young reader understand story structure with this tall tales activity.

Tall Tales for Kids

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