Use this Halloween story starter to encourage your child to hone their creative writing skills and write imaginative tales all about this beloved fall holiday! This worksheet includes a place for young authors to write and illustrate their story.

The key to a strong story is superb editing. Students are asked to read the short story, then come up with compliments, suggestions, and corrections to improve the story.

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.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

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!

Uh oh, I spy a typo! This activity will serve as a resource to help your writers understand some basic strategies and copyediting symbols for polishing their writing.

Looks like Santa Claus is in trouble! It's up to your creative writer to unravel the mystery behind this mysterious letter.

Give your students the opportunity to turn boring titles into interesting titles!

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.

Ready for sentence building liftoff! This worksheet will help your second grader build his creative writing skills and practice forming sentences.

Use this open-ended writing activity to assess your students’ abilities to write informational texts and include appropriate text features. Students are asked to write about a topic of their choice using key details and facts, including at least one text

What is this tractor trying to build? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Beginning readers track when they read by touching each word. In this worksheet, students will touch each word they read then count the total words in each sentence.

Rev your creative engines! This worksheet will help your second grader build his reading and writing skills, and practice making sentences of his very own.

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

What if the monster under the bed was just lonely and shy? Have some spooky fun with this writing prompt to challenge your point of view.

They say that kissing the Blarney Stone will give you a special way with words! Let your little writer practice her eloquent writing this St. Patrick's Day.

Show students editing symbols that are used to polish writing before publishing. Then, have them practice editing a short story.

Two of these sentences are not like the others! Students will identify and remove extraneous ideas to revise a paragraph about raccoons and then rewrite their new and improved text.

What is this tennis player doing? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Beginning readers track when they read by touching each word. In this worksheet, students will touch each word as they read.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

With a simple prompt and plenty of blank space to fill, this worksheet is just the thing to get kids' creative writing wheels turning.

This handy checklist will be useful when editing all kinds of writing! Have your students use this helpful writing aid to make their writing even better as they check for correct capitalization, punctuation, neatness, and more.

This worksheet offers students extra practice in recognizing corresponding texts and audiences.

Help your child get started on his storytelling skills with this worksheet about characters!

Practice your super strong writing skills to defend your opinion about who the best superhero is.

Help students improve peer writing conferences with this reflection exercise. Students will think critically about the feedback they received, discussing the comments they found most and least helpful. Afterwards, have them share their best peer feedback!

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