Have you ever heard of a giraffe that loves to roller skate? This fun-filled story starter is sure to put a smile on your little writer's face.

A cowboy meets a dragon but how does it end, and how did it start? Your young story teller can decide!

Funny story starters, like this one, switch on imagination, and it doesn't feel like the great writing practice that it is!

Help students practice generating titles for book names in this creative exercise.

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

Get creative with this playful writing prompt that's perfect for Halloween-time or for kids who love the supernatural.

This graphic organizer introduces kids to informational writing by asking them to explain how to play a game to a new friend.

Use this open-ended writing activity to assess your students’ abilities to write informational texts and include appropriate text features. Students are asked to write about a topic of their choice using key details and facts, including at least one text

Great writing is in the details! As students revise their narrative writing, encourage them to use more descriptive details. This worksheet helps students dig deeper and revise their writing to include more adjectives.

In this biography writing worksheet, kids can find a person they know in real life and find out what heroic qualities this average, everyday person possesses!

Young writers will love this fun creative writing prompt that invites them to dream big.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Conclude a Story.

This page is ready for writing out a cowboy's tale. Kids can color in what their cowboy hat should look like then write their own cowboy story.

Practice proper punctuation with this read-along worksheet.

Your students have been working hard on their narrative writing skills! Assess their growth with this open-ended writing assignment and rubric.

Here are a few fun things to help your first grader think about the spring season. What does he like to do? What do people wear in springtime?

Learners will practice identifying supporting details in a short text, then consider three supporting details they might use for an opinion piece of their own.

Use this graphic organizer to help your students learn how to write a fully formed opinion. This helpful worksheet breaks down opinion writing into three easy steps that will have your kids conquering persuasive writing in no time!

This simple acrostic template for Earth Day makes it easy for kids of all abilities to pen a poem about the planet.

Children practice identifying and writing opinions with supporting details in this appealing worksheet.

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

Give your students practice bringing their stories to life as they write realistic fiction!

Use this handy worksheet to help your students (and you!) keep track of their writing goals. Refer to the goals during writing workshop conferences, and be sure to have students add to them and revise them as needed.

Children will draw an Easter picture, then write about their picture on the lines, in this sweet writing and drawing prompt.

Children write about their favorite summer memory with this writing template, using their five senses to describe what happened.

Third person narrative is one of the most common techniques used in storytelling. Help your young writer understand when to use "it" or "they" as they endeavor to write a personal narrative using the singular and plural forms of third person pronouns.

Children are invited to reflect on the ways adversity can lead to gratitude in this thoughtful writing prompt.

Kids imagine what they would do if a scarecrow showed up for Thanksgiving dinner in this creative writing exercise.

Help your third grader learn how to use sensory words to describe something with this great vocab-building worksheet.

Have your 1st grader practice his handwriting and drawing while making up a story about going to outer space.