3rd - 5th Grade Prewriting Worksheets

Young authors will enjoy planning their writing with this memorable burger-themed graphic organizer.

This template guides children through the pre-writing process as they prepare to write about a special day, adventure, or experience.

Practice writing topic sentences with this paragraph structure worksheet!

Help students organize their ideas and structure their paragraph responses with this PEEL graphic organizer!

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

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

Imagine you spent a day in the life of a snowflake. What winter wonders would you see? Have some fun with this creative writing prompt.

This Christmas writing prompt gets your child to think about what it's like to have Santa's job. Try this Christmas writing prompt with your young writer.

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

Children will practice sequencing a simple story in this hands-on writing process worksheet.

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

Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

If your writer needs help organizing to write that big essay assignment, give them a helpful cheat-sheet full of tips on making an outline.

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

Children learn how to capitalize and punctuate titles, including guidelines for when to underline, italicize, or use quotes.

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.

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

Students practice sequencing story events with this worksheet. Cut out the sentences into strips and then build your story by arranging them in the best order.

Practice composition skills and help the reporter get his review of Delicious Treats bakery together sentence by sentence sequencing his points into order.

Do Christmas angels play hockey? Use your imagination to elaborate on this wacky winter scene!

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

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

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

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.

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

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

Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

Take a stab at haiku poetry with this free-form haiku writing worksheet. All you need is imagination and a pen!