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2nd - 4th Grade Common Core Prewriting Worksheets : Page 2

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.

Story Mountain Prewriting

Learn about story progression and story organization with this ladder graphic organizer.

Ladder Graphic Organizer

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

Hook Your Reader!

Get your thoughts organized with this handy graphic organizer! Kids can use this template to deconstruct any story they're working on in school.

Bubble Graphic Organizer

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

Gratitude Journal

Kids read a story about a puppy, then finish it by writing what they think will happen next.

Story Comprehension: What Happens Next?

Brighten your writing by learning how to build and describe great characters!

Character Development

Students can start a personal narrative with a clear problem and solution by using this activity to organize their story. This handy graphic organizer will have students consider various aspects of their problem and solution, and how it made them feel.

Personal Narrative Problem & Solution

Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

Narrative Transition Words & Phrases

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Character Changes Order

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.

Personal Narrative: Adding Dialogue

Learners will sharpen their creative writing skills as they brainstorm hilarious titles of their own using this worksheet.

Name It

This baby dinosaur needs help forming his first sentence! Your second grader can build reading and writing skills with our beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Make a Sentence: Intermediate

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Find the Central Message: Literary Response

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

Elaborating on Feelings

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.

Personal Narrative Organizer: Surprise!

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.

Describe Your Home

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.

Great Writing Starts with Golden Ideas

This volcano writing worksheet is a great brainstorm starter and provides a different approach to composition, perfect for research-based writing.

Volcano Writing Scene

This friendly sea turtle is trying to say something, can you help him? Give your second grader practice writing sentences with this worksheet.

Sea Turtle Sentences

This lunch time story is completely out of order! Can your child read each sentence and number them correctly so that the story makes sense?

Story Sequencing: Lunch Time

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

Writing Narratives: Plan the Setting

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

Persuasive Writing Prompt Cards

Flex your superhuman writing abilities with a fun prompt! If you could be a superhero, what power would you want to have?

My Super Power

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.

Sort the Story: Amanda & the Panda

This is a writing exercise designed to assess where your students are at the beginning of third grade.

Writing Prompt: Change

Instead of reading the story and then reviewing it, kids have to put this mixed-up story back together in order to understand what's going on.

Crazy Monday!

This language arts assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the persuasive writing genre.

Persuasive Writing Assessment

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

Writing Prompt: Stranded on a Deserted Island

Take your stand among the comic book greats, and create your own superhero legend!

Create A Superhero

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