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.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Create a Nonfiction Big Book.

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

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

There's life on Mars! It's the Molten Martian! This curious character can be a springboard to a story by your 4th grader. Let him take off into his imagination.

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

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

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

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

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

Hey, what's Kraken? Kraken are mythical sea creatures with terrifying tentacles. Tell your young writer to come up with a story for Captain Kraken.

Encourage your fourth graders to put their writing skills and imagination to good use by imagining that they are opening up a restaurant and writing about it!

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

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.

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

What is the boy in his swim trunks asking the boy in his rain coat? Use your imagination and write down questions the two boys may be asking each other!

If your student is experiencing some writer's block, give her a fun activity to practice descriptive writing! She'll write about if she owned her own shop.

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

Use this graphic organizer to help students plan their personal narratives by drawing what will happen. Thinking about the beginning, middle, and end of their narratives encourages young writers to stretch out the small moments they write about.

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

This exercise will challenge your child's powers of recollection as well as his communication skills. It also provides an introduction to the research process.

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.

Try rewriting a childhood favorite, Peter Pan, as if Pan was the bad guy and Captain Hook was the good guy!

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.

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.

Take a look at the colorful monster and practice writing by describing him!

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 they’ve done in 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.

What if the dragon guarding castle was just a household pet? Help your young writer boost her creativity with this fun prompt.