In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying supporting ideas, then follow a prompt to write an informational paragraph of their own.

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.

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

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!

Collect and organize your thoughts in preparation for a reading response letter with this graphic organizer.

Give your students practice planning purposeful writing!

There are many ways that writers can add voice to their writing, including dialect, emotion, word choice, and ALL CAPS.

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.

Students will use this worksheet to write about their thinking as they discuss their ideas!

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

Use this prewriting activity to help students organize their writing and reinforce transitional language.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

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

Children learn how to develop the thinking skills required to move from an opinion statement to a support statement in this three-part, self-guided worksheet.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Year-round school: yay or nay? Use your persuasive writing skills to make a case.

When authors create characters, they think about “inside” and “outside” details. Your students will go through the same process with this writing worksheet. Ask them to create a character and list the things they imagine this character thinks about and fe

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!

Second graders love telling stories! Help them share their feelings when writing about one small moment using this helpful planning worksheet.

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.

Young writers practice crafting interesting, well rounded characters for their stories with this character planning template.

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.

Let your first grader brag a bit about his best skills and enjoyable, after-school activities.

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.

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