There's more than one way to hook a reader! Help your students reinforce their understanding of captivating story starters with this Goldilocks-themed matching worksheet.

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

Let's get silly! Use this worksheet to help your students practice counting words and improving their handwriting while writing out these silly sentences.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Story Hooks.

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

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.

Is your child "stuck" without a good story starter? Behold the Awful Epoxy, a sticky super villain.

A.J. and C.K. are at a baseball game! Let your fourth grader use their big imagination to fill in the speech bubbles in this comic strip-writing adventure.

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!

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

Write an ice skating story based on the illustration on the page. It can be silly or heartfelt, even science fiction!

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

If you break a mirror, will it really give you bad luck for 7 years? Investigate the origins of this famous superstition with a fun writing activity.

Let your fourth grader dig deep into their imagination to come up with their own adventure for A.J. and C.K., in this fill-in-the-blank comic strip.

By writing his own story in this worksheet, your child can learn to "fill in the blanks" of reading comprehension.

Starting a story can be the toughest part of writing. Help your child flex their creativity by starting the same story in six different ways!

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

A.J. and C.K. are at it again! If your child is into comics or graphic novels, they're sure to love this do-it-yourself comic adventure.

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.

Learners will sharpen their creative writing skills as they brainstorm hilarious titles of their own using this worksheet.

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.

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

What if Friday the 13th really did cause everybody bad luck? Let your creativity jump off from here and write about the worst possible Friday the 13th.

Help your students to show their understanding of operations within word problems.

What would happen if Megalodon and the Loch Ness Monster went head-to-head? Your budding writer can have fun narrating this epic battle!

We all know the classic tale of the Three Little Pigs, but no one has heard it from the wolf's point of view!

What if you woke up on Christmas morning and time had stopped! What would happen next?

Does your creative writer love to have a spooky good time with his stories? This ghostly worksheet will get him in the spirit!

Out of this world! This prospector has begun mining for resources on Mars! Your 4th grade sci-fi lover can write a story about his daily life.

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