1st - 3rd Grade Common Core Descriptive Language Worksheets

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

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.

Your students have been working hard on their descriptive writing skills! Assess student growth with this open-ended writing assignment and rubric that asks students to use their five senses to describe a place they have visited.

Learn all about the practice of personification in writing, then try it your hand at it by bringing life to some silly characters in this writing worksheet.

A fictional story has many parts that require planning. Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their setting, characters, problem, solution, and choose a title.

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

Use this creative prompt to peek into your young writer’s imagination and cultivate their writing skills.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Ever wish you could breathe underwater? This creative writing prompt asks your child to imagine if humans could live underwater!

Working on figurative language skills? Assess student understanding of simple hyperboles with this writing exercise. Your kids will be hyperbole hotshots when they've finished this worksheet!

What is real and what is imaginary? Give your students practice differentiating between realistic and imaginary details.

Use this fun exercise to help your students add descriptive details into an eerie narrative.

In this creative writing Halloween prompt, young writers will use their imaginations to dream up their very own Halloween potion.

With this writing worksheet, challenge students to turn imaginary details into realistic details that could fit into a story.

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

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!

This engaging worksheet is a fun way to introduce a playful form of figurative language to young writers.

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!

What was a time in your life when you were surprised? Use this prompt and worksheet to help students plan a personal narrative on this topic.

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.

If your students need extra practice structuring a personal narrative, use this prompt to write a story about something that was difficult for them.