This prewriting activity walks students through making an outline of a narrative essay, from the central ideas to the important details.

Readers will reinforce their understanding of key narrative features in this writing exercise.

In this worksheet, learners come to better understand the different kinds of narratives, and how they are similar and different, by creating a map of narrative genres.

Third person narrative is one of the most common techniques used in storytelling. Help your young writer understand when to use "it" or "they" as they endeavor to write a personal narrative using the singular and plural forms of third person pronouns.

Relive the experience of trying something new with this personal narrative writing prompt for third, fourth, and fifth graders!

Use this assessment and the corresponding rubric to see how well students write personal narratives!

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

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

Ask students questions about "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer to develop their reading comprehension skills.

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

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Reflect on a special friendship with this upper elementary writing worksheet!

Laura mixed up the homophones in her personal narrative, so it's up to your student to correct them.

We’ve all started a new school or class, but each experience is unique! Write about yours with this third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade prompt.

Young writers learn to develop strong narrative voices by getting in touch with how they express themselves given a variety of situations.

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine narratives with characters from their favorite stories.

This worksheet walks students through the three main formatting strategies writers can use when organizing and pacing their narratives.

Imagine you find a time machine that sends you 200 years into the future—what would you tell your present-day self?

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing. Standards-based rubric included.

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

Teach students to slow the pace of the story by pausing to take stock of what’s happening around the character and inside the character's heart and mind.