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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.

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Story Mountain Prewriting

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.

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Ice Skating Story Starter

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!

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Ingredients of a Story

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

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Story Comprehension: What Happens Next?

Second graders love telling stories! Help them plan their own small moment stories using this handy graphic organizer.

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Narrative Story Organizer

Put proper punctuation into practice with these read-along stories.

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Punctuate the Story: Earth Day

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.

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My Story's Characters

This worksheet template guides children through the pre-writing and writing process, helping them to organize their thoughts before they write.

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Write a Personal Narrative Story

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

somebody wanted prewriting organizer

"Somebody Wanted" Prewriting Organizer

Children will use their imaginations to write a fanciful holiday story in this creative writing worksheet.

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Creative Writing: Christmas Dragons

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

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Tall Tales for Kids

Here's a great activity to get your second grader's mind going and creativity in action! He'll write a story to go with the picture and even get to color too.

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Winter Writing Activity

A strong hook will capture a reader's attention and make them want to know more! In this activity, students will identify four different ways to hook a reader into a story.

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Narrative Hooks

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.

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Personal Narrative: Adding Dialogue

Being able to write a strong conclusion is an essential skill for all story-tellers. With this activity, budding writers will practice this skill by writing two types of endings for their personal narratives.

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Super Endings

A good introduction draws a reader into the story and makes them want to learn more. Help your second graders hook their readers as they practice writing strong introductions using this helpful worksheet.

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Strong Beginnings

A strong hook will grab a reader's attention and pull them into your story! This organizer will help young writers try out different ideas and decide on the strongest hook for their personal narrative.

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Narrative Hooks: Brainstorming

Second graders will hone their creative writing skills to come up with fabulous titles of their very own using this fun worksheet! Students will answer questions to help them hone in on the perfect title for their story.

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Crafting a Title

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.

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Narrative Transition Words & Phrases

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

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Finding Louie Alternate Ending

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.

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Personal Narrative Problem & Solution

Here's a writing prompt to put a jig in your step, and pep in your writing practice!

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Dinosaur & Pirate Jig Scene

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.

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Writing Inspiration for Kids

Second graders love telling stories! Help them take one small moment and write across many pages using this helpful planning organizer.

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Writing Across Pages

Second graders love telling stories! Help them share their feelings when writing about one small moment using this helpful planning worksheet.

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I Felt So...

A magical pirate scene serves as a prompt for young writers in this creative writing worksheet.

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Writing Prompt: Pirates

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

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Character Changes Order

Is that a pirate on a dinosaur's back? Yes. Why? Let your child decide (and slip in great composition skills practice)!

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Pirate Writing

Play author with this creative writing and comprehension exercise! Your child will learn all about inference, or drawing conclusions based on what they&#39;ve read.

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What Happened Next?

Got a case of writer's block? One great way to get started is to draw a picture!

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