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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Good writers also know how to slow down the action at just the right times to build suspense and pull the reader into the moment.

Channel your inner superhero with this fun writing worksheet created for fifth through eighth graders!