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2nd Grade Prewriting Resources : Page 2

Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

STEM Design Challenge: Brainstorm and Reflection Sheet

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

Create a Recyclable Creature

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

Create Your Own Pumpkin Person!

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!

Children discover how a paragraph resembles an inverted traffic light, with its topic, supporting, and closing sentences.

The Upside-Down Traffic Lights Paragraph

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.

Make a Dinosaur Sentence

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

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Make Your Own Fairy Tale

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

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

Make a Space Shuttle Sentence

Roarrr!! What is this T-Rex trying to say? Help your second grader build his reading and writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Make a T-Rex Sentence

Take a look at the colorful monster and practice writing by describing him!

Creative Writing for Kids: Monster

What do want to be when you grow up? This worksheet gives kids the space to represent their answer to that question through drawing and writing.

What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

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.

Make a Speedy Sentence

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

Pencil Toppers

What's going on here? Your child can decide what's happening and where these characters might go next, using this writing prompt as a start.

Writing Inspiration for Kids

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Write a Cliffhanger

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

Make a Family History Fanfold Timeline!

It's storytelling time! Bring the magic of tall tales closer to home by creating a tall tale based on someone your child knows and admires.

Writing a Tall Tale

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

Chinese New Year: Mini Lantern Template

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

Spark a Story

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.

Sentence Making Dino!

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Dinosaur Family Dynamics

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Plan Stories with The Five-Finger Technique

Who is your favorite larger-than-life character? Help your young reader understand story structure with this tall tales activity.

Tall Tales for Kids

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

Sporty Sentence Making

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

Tractor Building Sentences

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.

My Story's Characters

Can you name what trick this skateboarder is doing? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Skateboarding Sentences!

Honor Dad this Father's Day by turning him into a veritable superhero! This printable is guaranteed to pack in the giggles (and writing practice, too).

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