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2nd Grade Common Core Prewriting Worksheets

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

Write a Personal Narrative Story

Children will read simple pasta directions, then select the correct transition words from the choices shown.

Adding Transition Words

Children practice identifying and writing a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a conclusion in this narrative writing worksheet.

Topic Sentence

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.

Sensory Words

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.

Winter Writing Activity

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

Chinese New Year: Mini Lantern Template

With this worksheet, your student can rearrange these nouns and verbs into complete sentences, building creative writing skills.

Simple Sentence Structure

Kindergarteners through second graders can use this versatile Biography Booklet printable to research and write about someone in booklet form.

Biography Booklet

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web

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

Story Comprehension: What Happens Next?

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

Writing Prompt: Pirates

Children will create a timeline of a parent, grandparent, or loved one with this biography template.

Biography Timeline

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

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

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

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

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

Character Changes Order

Help students organize their ideas with this versatile storyboard graphic organizer! Children can use it to respond to text, organize the order of events, or even as a pre-writing tool to collect ideas.

Storyboard

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

Time Transition Word Sort

Make personal narrative and dialogue prep a breeze with this organizer! Students will practice sequencing and prewriting as they put together their personal narrative about a time they were surprised by something or someone.

Personal Narrative: Surprise!

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

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

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

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

Follow Chuck on vacation by looking at the pictures he took! What is he doing in each picture? Use your imagination and creativity to write captions for each.

Photo Captions

Time to play detective! Can you describe what happened int his scene, just by looking at the picture? Practice making inferences by looking at context.

Drawing Conclusions

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!

Ingredients of a Story

Learners will write an original song for planet Earth in this fun songwriting prompt.

Write an Earth Day Song

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!

Learners can gather a lot of information about a topic or issue by interviewing career professionals from the community. Use this Guest Speaker Interview worksheet to have students ask a speaker questions and write down their answers.

Guest Speaker Career Interview 

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2nd Grade Common Core Prewriting Worksheets

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