2nd and 3rd Grade Prewriting Educational Resources : Page 3

Supporting details make a main idea stronger, and add color and interest to any story. Your early writer will describe your home and add detail to their writing.

Your students will have fun developing the setting of a story with this graphic organizer.

What do you want to be when you grow up? This cute worksheet will help them learn about supporting the main idea with supporting details with their writing.

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

Use this graphic organizer to help kids differentiate between fact or opinion.

Ever wish you could breathe underwater? This creative writing prompt asks your child to imagine if humans could live underwater!

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.

Use this paper template to create a miniature lantern with your own wishes for the coming year.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

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.

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

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.

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.

What is this funny dinosaur doing? Help your second grader rearrange the jumbled words, and add in the missing words to make a complete sentence.

Give your students practice bringing their stories to life as they write realistic fiction!

Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

Learners can gather a lot of information about veterans and their former jobs by interviewing them on Veterans Day. Use the worksheet Interview a Veteran to have students ask veterans questions and write down their answers.

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

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

Why is this dinosaur holding an egg? Help your second grader get creative with his reading and writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Help your third grader learn how to use sensory words to describe something with this great vocab-building worksheet.

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