1st - 4th Grade Prewriting Educational Resources : Page 9

If your child has ever fantasized about being a pro athlete, he'll enjoy this writing assignment! Characters have stats and stories have supporting details.

Students will then popular upper grade novel titles and determine the strategies those authors used to grab readers' attention.

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

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

Watch out for this big, bad Bushido! Bushido is a Japanese word meaning "way of the warrior." It's up to your child to write the story of this super samurai.

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.

What are Floyd and Roly talking about? Fill in the word balloons and make up your own comic!

Jump into a comic strip with this creative writing prompt. Tell a story about your life as a superhero!

Enlighten the holiday spirit in your beginning writer, and have her respond to this Christmas writing prompt about the holiday colors.

What story can your second grader come up with for this winter scene? They also get some coloring time to go along with the story they write.

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

How would the story of Jack and the Beanstalk go if it were told from the point of view of the giant?

Do you remember your favorite Christmas experience? Get your little writer to practice her creative writing with a fun prompt.

Imagine if the classic Christmas story, The Nutcracker, was actually a Halloween story! How would that change the way the story was told?

Do Christmas angels play hockey? Use your imagination to elaborate on this wacky winter scene!

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

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!

Students will form their own opinions, as they voice whether or not they think children should be allowed to wear Halloween costumes to school.

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

Is that a pirate on a dinosaur's back? Yes. Why? Let your child decide (and slip in great composition skills practice)!

Did you know that in Australia, December 25th is actually during the summer? Imagine if we celebrated Christmas during the summer!

Djinn are evil genies who live in a parallel world. Tell your 4th grader to write about his favorite superhero defeating this djinn.

Give your child a fun way to polish his writing skills with a Halloween story starter. Hell get to make up his own scary story and get a creativity boost.

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... flying baby? Your imaginative young writer can come up with a story for this unlikely superhero.

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

This robot soldier has found something on a Mars exploration that he's taking back home. What is it? Only your imaginative young author can decide.

It seems that Christmas magic has gone haywire! Be creative and write a story to explain this silly holiday scene.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your budding writer practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story related to friends.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something related to school.