3rd - 8th Grade Common Core Prewriting Educational Resources : Page 5

Spin a spooky tale with a creative writing card game, perfect for a dark and creepy Halloween night around the campfire.

Got a video game enthusiast on your hands? Give them a fun alternative with this creative writing sheet, where they'll get to make up their own video game!

How would the story of the Frog Prince go if it was told from the perspective of the other frogs in the pond?

Out of this world! This prospector has begun mining for resources on Mars! Your 4th grade sci-fi lover can write a story about his daily life.

Use this creative prompt to peek into your young writer’s imagination and cultivate their writing skills.

Encourage your fourth graders to put their writing skills and imagination to good use by imagining that they are opening up a restaurant and writing about it!

This story starter will help your child learn about story structure and plot. She'll read the beginning and the end, filling in the parts that are missing.

With this writing worksheet, challenge students to turn imaginary details into realistic details that could fit into a story.

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.

Have a blast completing this mouth-watering writing exercise by writing down the steps you would take to create the perfect ice cream sundae.

A.J. and C.K. are at a baseball game! Let your fourth grader use their big imagination to fill in the speech bubbles in this comic strip-writing adventure.

In this exercise, we'll practice expanding upon general concepts.

What if the monster under the bed was just lonely and shy? Have some spooky fun with this writing prompt to challenge your point of view.

We all know the classic tale of the Three Little Pigs, but no one has heard it from the wolf's point of view!

Use this prewriting activity to help students organize their writing and reinforce transitional language.

Is your child "stuck" without a good story starter? Behold the Awful Epoxy, a sticky super villain.

There's life on Mars! It's the Molten Martian! This curious character can be a springboard to a story by your 4th grader. Let him take off into his imagination.

What if Dorothy's house had landed in New York City instead of Oz?

Can your fourth grader write their own comic strip? Let them give it a shot, with this fill-in-the-blank adventure featuring A.J. and C.K.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

What was a time in your life when you were surprised? Use this prompt and worksheet to help students plan a personal narrative on this topic.

Write an ice skating story based on the illustration on the page. It can be silly or heartfelt, even science fiction!

Let your fourth grader dig deep into their imagination to come up with their own adventure for A.J. and C.K., in this fill-in-the-blank comic strip.

Tom, the boy zombie, is just a misunderstood monster. Help him tell his story from his point of view with this fun and creative writing prompt.

A.J. and C.K. are at it again! If your child is into comics or graphic novels, they're sure to love this do-it-yourself comic adventure.

Encourage your little writer to exercise his creativity and write a story about this wacky scene.

Ready to add some magic to the standard creative writing process?

What if Friday the 13th really did cause everybody bad luck? Let your creativity jump off from here and write about the worst possible Friday the 13th.

Help students practice generating titles for book names in this creative exercise.

Students will then popular upper grade novel titles and determine the strategies those authors used to grab readers' attention.