Here is a great story-starter for more advanced writers. Your student will put his creativity to the test by filling in the blanks to this story!

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

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.

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

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

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

Use the "I Am Human" Story Book worksheet to create a story about gratitude and being human.

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

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

This reading exercise uses interactive story writing; it's a great way to look at reading comprehension from a different angle.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Here's a piratey, funny writing prompt for your child to write an adventure story with!

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

Give your child a fun way to polish his writing skills with a Halloween story starter. Hell get to make up his own scary story and get a creativity boost.

Inspire your little storyteller to exercise her imagination with an adorable story starter! How did this rhino become a ballerina?

Get into the spirit of the holiday season with these winter story starter cards!

This story starter will help your child learn about story structure and plot. She'll read the beginning and the end, filling in the parts that are missing.

Read a simple tale about pirates and stolen treasure, then chart the story on a map.

Children will practice sequencing a simple story in this hands-on writing process worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Story Hooks.

There are many different ways to start a story! Hone creativity and build knowledge about literary devices with these fun story starting prompts.

What if you had a T-Rex as a pet? Dino lovers can put their imaginations to the test with this adorable story starter.

Your fourth grader can practice story sequencing and flex their reading comprehension by putting the paragraphs in order to tell a story beginning to end.

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

Continue the illustrated story of The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen.

This homophone worksheet encourages your kid to learn with a fun monster story. Use this homophone worksheet to help improve spelling and vocabulary knowledge.

Get into the holiday spirit with a little storytelling! These holiday story cards are the perfect way to help your little writer find her voice.

Mix history and fiction and write your own story about what would happen if Captain Hook of "Peter Pan" and Captain Blackbeard met!

Do fish drive around from place to place? Have a fun storytelling adventure with your child and create an imaginative story to go with this picture.

Flex those creative writing skills by starting a story in a few different ways! Use the picture as a prompt, and use each technique to start a story.