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This cuddly bear has a story to tell! Give your child a head start writing his own story with this fun coloring page, and let his imagination do the rest.

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Story Starters

Boost your child's writing skills with these simple sentence starters for beginning writers!

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Sentence Starters

This laugh-out-loud worksheet is sure to inspire your first grader to write a silly story.

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Story Starters: What's Going On?

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

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Picture Prompt Story Starters

What do a goofy green frog, bright blue castle, and pretty pink princess have in common? Your first grader will write a fairy tale all about it!

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Story Starters: Fairy Tales

Too often kids have trouble writing because they can't think of a place to start. Here's a worksheet with a simple prompt that's guaranteed to kids writing.

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Story Starters: Write about Your Favorite Sport

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

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Story Starters: Write about Your Best Friend

Young writers will traverse the story mountain to create a narrative plot of their own! Students will consider various story elements, including characters, setting, climax, problem, and solution with this great visual aid.

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Story Mountain Prewriting

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.

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Halloween Story Starter

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.

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Story Board

"The witch was on her broom with her..." Where will your child take the story from here? This Halloween story starter is a great way to get your first grader's wheels turning and creative juices flowing.

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Halloween Story Starter 2

A fictional story has many parts that require planning. Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their setting, characters, problem, solution, and choose a title.

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Story Planning Worksheet

Here's a fun way to get your first grader writing stories; this one's about a mouse, cat, and cheese!

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Picture Story Starter

Is that polar bear eating an ice cream cone? Get your child into a creative writing mood with this fun coloring page, and let his imagination do the rest!

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Polar Bear Story Starter

Characters are at the very center of any story, and learning how to create dynamic characters is essential for budding writers. Your students can use this handy organizer to plan rich character development in their creative writing.

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My Story's Characters

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.

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Stretching Out Small Moments: Friend Stories

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.

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Stretching Out Small Moments: School Stories

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

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Stretching Out Small Moments: Summer Stories

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

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"Somebody Wanted" Prewriting Organizer

Revision is an important skill for writers, but it can be tricky to develop. In this activity, students will practice their revision skills by adding details to make a story come to life and then rewriting their new and improved story.

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Review and Revise

What have these delightful dolphins discovered on the sea floor? It's your child's mission to finish this aquatic story!

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Dolphin Comic Strip

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!

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Write that Title

Keep this cute printable on your first grader's bedside table, and when she wakes up, have her write a story about her dreams.

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Dream Writing

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help students practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story of a birthday.

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Stretching Out Small Moments: Birthdays

How far can you stretch these sentences? Give your young writer a creativity boost with this clever sentence practice sheet.

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Sentence Practice

Stretch those writing skills with this "stretch a sentence" activity! Little writers will learn to expand on an idea by adding more details to a sentence.

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Stretch a Sentence

It's time to brainstorm! Use this worksheet to help budding writers generate a list of ideas and topics for future stories, as well as give students a chance to practice their letter and word spacing.

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Writing Ideas

Oh, no, our prince has a dragon hot on his heels...really, really hot! Let your 1st grade author decide what happens next.

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Dragon Chase Writing Prompt

Make writing fun with this dinosaur writing prompt, perfect for kids who are fascinated by the prehistoric world.

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Dinosaur Writing Prompt

Geared toward children from preschool through first grade, this worksheet is a great way to introduce young students to opinion writing, as well as the importance of standing up for what they believe in.

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