Kids imagine what they would do if a scarecrow showed up for Thanksgiving dinner in this creative writing exercise.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

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

Review and practice writing dialogue with your students. Choose from three situations and create an original dialogue for the characters in one of them.

Get acquainted with a few different writing techniques with this fun prompt. Kids will start the same story in a few different ways.

Show students how vivid a well-written description can be and then let them create imagery of their own.

Starting a story can be the toughest part of writing. Help your child flex their creativity by starting the same story in six different ways!

When authors create characters, they think about “inside” and “outside” details. Your students will go through the same process with this writing worksheet. Ask them to create a character and list the things they imagine this character thinks about and fe

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!

Do you avoid stepping on cracks in the road? Have some fun exploring a common childhood superstition!

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