3rd - 8th Grade Common Core Prewriting Educational Resources : Page 4

Get your little storyteller in gear for creative writing! This story starter worksheet is perfect for honing your child's writing skills.

Organizing your thoughts is an essential part of the writing process. It's easy--and fun--with this brainstorming worksheet.

Your young writer can practice his storytelling skills with this character development worksheet, where he'll outline 4 fictional characters.

Helping your students support their opinions with thoughtful reasons will prepare them to write strong persuasive texts.

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Use your imagination to decide what you would do if you had a million dollars! Write about it in this creative writing exercise.

Use this graphic organizer to explore a beloved summer pastime in writing.

Here's great exercise for writers of any age - building a character with supporting details! In this case, a vampire character.

Thanksgiving is a great time to focus on family and be thankful for things in our lives. In the worksheet A Poem with Details from Your Thanksgiving, learners will write an abecedarian poem with details from their Thanksgiving break where the first letter

Assess your students’ grasp on writing norms and style within the opinion writing genre.

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

A great title hooks the audience and gives readers an idea about what they’ll be reading. With this worksheet, your writers will learn different strategies for crafting titles for any piece of writing.

Learners will create a decorative leaf project with their resolutions, then write a short paragraph summarizing how they hope to achieve them.

What kind of camping trip plan would your child make? They can write down details with this worksheet.

How would our lives be different if we were aquatic creatures living underwater? Have your kid flex his creativity with this fun writing prompt.

Research your favorite author, then map out biographical details on an idea web.

How cool would it be to have a pet dragon! Have fun with this "what if" writing prompt, and spin a fun story about the adventures you'd have.

Get in the mood for Halloween with a spooky creative writing prompt. Your child will imagine and write about adventures in a haunted house!

Hey, what's Kraken? Kraken are mythical sea creatures with terrifying tentacles. Tell your young writer to come up with a story for Captain Kraken.

This is a writing exercise designed to assess where your students are at the beginning of third grade.

Fourth graders can practice writing and storytelling in this creative writing exercise based on a make-believe pet dinosaur!

Try rewriting a childhood favorite, Peter Pan, as if Pan was the bad guy and Captain Hook was the good guy!

What if you discovered a secret passageway in your house! Write a story to tell what you'd do next in that situation.

What if you woke up on Christmas morning and time had stopped! What would happen next?

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

What is real and what is imaginary? Give your students practice differentiating between realistic and imaginary details.

What if you were the last person on earth? Give your child some fun writing practice with this sci-fi writing prompt.

Give your students practice using their narrative writing skills with this fun worksheet.

This Father's Day, encourage your child to get to know dad a little better by writing a brief biography.