2nd and 3rd Grade Common Core Descriptive Language Educational Resources

Your students have been working hard on their descriptive writing skills! Assess student growth with this open-ended writing assignment and rubric that asks students to use their five senses to describe a place they have visited.

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

Imagine you spent a day in the life of a snowflake. What winter wonders would you see? Have some fun with this creative writing prompt.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Learn all about the practice of personification in writing, then try it your hand at it by bringing life to some silly characters in this writing worksheet.

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

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!

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

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

This engaging worksheet is a fun way to introduce a playful form of figurative language to young writers.

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

With this writing worksheet, challenge students to turn imaginary details into realistic details that could fit into a story.

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

What is real and what is imaginary? Give your students practice differentiating between realistic and imaginary details.

Working on figurative language skills? Assess student understanding of simple hyperboles with this writing exercise. Your kids will be hyperbole hotshots when they've finished this worksheet!

Use this fun exercise to help your students add descriptive details into an eerie narrative.

If your students need extra practice structuring a personal narrative, use this prompt to write a story about something that was difficult for them.

What was a time in your life when you were surprised? Use this prompt and worksheet to help students plan a personal narrative on this topic.