3rd - 5th Grade Prewriting Educational Resources : Page 3

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

Assess kids' grasp of sequencing and paragraph structure with this sheet.

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

Assess your students’ varying abilities to write in a cohesive and sequential manner.

Young historians get to put themselves in the shoes of the Pilgrims and report back to the Queen herself about life in the New England colonies.

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.

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.

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

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

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

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.

Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.

With this prewriting organizer, students will brainstorm and visualize details of their fictional story.

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

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

Get the scoop on your stories with this ice cream graphic organizer!

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

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.

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?

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.

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

Mini musicians, get ready for a jukebox adventure back in time! Visit the Library of Congress Jukebox website to hear 5 classic melodies by famous composers.

Dr. McSquare is here to help kids learn the scientific method. His reports are all in disarray--can your child sort label each part with the correct step?

What do you want to be when you grow up? This cute worksheet will help them learn about supporting the main idea with supporting details with their writing.

Use this graphic organizer to help kids differentiate between fact or opinion.