1st - 4th Grade Prewriting Worksheets

Young authors will enjoy planning their writing with this memorable burger-themed graphic organizer.

This template guides children through the pre-writing process as they prepare to write about a special day, adventure, or experience.

Practice writing topic sentences with this paragraph structure worksheet!

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

Children practice identifying and writing a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a conclusion in this narrative writing worksheet.

This worksheet template guides children through the pre-writing and writing process, helping them to organize their thoughts before they write.

Boost your child's writing skills with these simple sentence starters for beginning writers!

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.

Children will practice sequencing a simple story in this hands-on writing process worksheet.

With this worksheet, your student can rearrange these nouns and verbs into complete sentences, building creative writing skills.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Evaluate your arguments with this fourth-grade persuasive writing assessment!

Flex those writing skills with these clever prompts. Practice stretching sentences by adding details of who, what, when and where!

Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

Kids read a story about a puppy, then finish it by writing what they think will happen next.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

Get your thoughts organized with this handy graphic organizer! Kids can use this template to deconstruct any story they're working on in school.

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

In this worksheet, children read an example of a bio poem for jazz musician Thelonious Monk, then use the prompt to create a bio poem for a person of their choosing.

Children will create a timeline of a parent, grandparent, or loved one with this biography template.

Children learn how to capitalize and punctuate titles, including guidelines for when to underline, italicize, or use quotes.

How far can you stretch these sentences? Give your young writer a creativity boost with this clever sentence practice sheet.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Practice composition skills and help the reporter get his review of Delicious Treats bakery together sentence by sentence sequencing his points into order.

Students can start a personal narrative with a clear problem and solution by using this activity to organize their story. This handy graphic organizer will have students consider various aspects of their problem and solution, and how it made them feel.

Students practice sequencing story events with this worksheet. Cut out the sentences into strips and then build your story by arranging them in the best order.

Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

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.