Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

What better time to write letters than the holidays? In this activity, students practice spelling holiday words while writing a letter to a friend or family member.

What if Bigfoot and the Abominable Snowman were stranded on a desert island together? It's up to your creative writer to tell the rest of the story.

Funny story starters, like this one, switch on imagination, and it doesn't feel like the great writing practice that it is!

What story can your second grader come up with for this winter scene? They also get some coloring time to go along with the story they write.

Learners will create a decorative leaf project with their resolutions, then write a short paragraph summarizing how they hope to achieve them.

What if you came upon a monster in the woods? Have your little writer use their imagination to create a story based on this scene!

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

What is that strange object in the sky? This prompt will be a lift off for your young writer's imagination as he creates a story to match the picture.

This cute worksheet asks your first grader to write a silly story about how this hungry monkey captures those yummy bananas.

What's going on in this superhero comic strip? The adventures are up to your learner, as they fill in captions and word bubbles with comic book writing.

Spellers take their skills to the stratosphere with this fun practice worksheet.

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

In this creative writing Halloween prompt, young writers will use their imaginations to dream up their very own Halloween potion.

Have some fun with haiku! These haiku poem prompts mix pop culture with zen creativity.

Would you rather travel through time or travel through space? Explore limitless frontiers while writing science fiction.

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

Fall is the perfect time to let your child’s imagination go wild as they design and write about their very own pumpkin person. This worksheet provides a great way to gets kids excited about both Halloween and creative writing!

Challenge your kids to translate LOL into an academic sentence! Give your students extra practice rewriting online comments so that they fit the academic setting.

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

Challenge your students to form a well-reasoned argument with this writing prompt (and rubric!) that's sure to evoke some strong opinions. Students will think about how much homework second graders should be given and make their case in essay form.

Time to play detective! Can you describe what happened int his scene, just by looking at the picture? Practice making inferences by looking at context.

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

Help your students plan a well-supported persuasive letter with this planning document.

What would happen if two snails entered a race? Start your own story with these slow-and-steady snails!

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

Help your tween regain command of formal writing with this worksheet that translates text grammar back into complete sentences.

All we know is that this courageous knight in shining armor is protecting this beautiful princess, and it's up to your scribe to finish the story!

Imagine what would happen if a crow wanted to be a peacock! Give your little storyteller a fun way to practice their creative writing with this prompt.

Give your child a head start writing a creative story with this fun coloring page, and let his imagination do the rest!